Franz Ferdinand have shared details of a new tour, set to take place across the UK and Europe next year. Find out more below.
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The news of the new tour dates come as the band are set to perform at the 2025 edition of Glastonbury next week, and will be performing at a huge number of other festivals later this summer – including Valley Of The Arts, Tramlines, Truck, Y Not, Boardmasters and AMA Music Festival.
It also comes in celebration of the band dropping their critically acclaimed seventh studio album ‘The Human Fear’ in January.
The new run of shows will kick off in Dundee on February 24, with an opening night at the LiveHouse venue, from there, it’ll continue later that month with further stops in Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle.
Going into March, more UK shows include shows in Nottingham, Norwich, Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Portsmouth, before that leg of dates wraps up with a show at London’s Brixton Academy on March 11.
Eight gigs across Europe are planned for afterwards, including shows in Vienna and Munich in the remainder of March, followed by dates in Berlin, Brussels, Cologne, Tilburg, Luxembourg and Frankfurt in April.
Tickets are on sale now and available here (UK) and here (international). Check out a new list of shows below.
The newly announced Franz Ferdinand UK and Europe 2026 tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
24 – LiveHouse, Dundee
25 – O2 Academy, Leeds
27 – Academy, Manchester
2 – NX, Newcastle
MARCH
2 – Rock City, Nottingham
3 – UEA, Norwich
4 – Dome, Brighton
6 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
7 – Beacon, Bristol
8 – Great Hall, Cardiff
10 – Guildhall, Portsmouth
11 – Brixton Academy, London
29 – Gasometer, Vienna
31 – Zenith, Muncih
APRIL
1 – Tempodrom, Berlin
3 – Forest National, Brussels
4 – Palladium, Cologne
8 – 013 Pompodium, Tilburg
10 – Rockhal Box, Luxembourg
11 – Jahrhunderhalle, Frankfurt
Earlier this year, the band’s latest album was given a glowing four-star review from NME with Andrew Trendell writing: “It’s a love letter to the idea of this band. Still shamelessly livin’ it up, with an eyebrow cocked and high kicks galore, ‘The Human Fear’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so well.”
Before then, frontman Alex Kapranos spoke to NME about the newfound wave of attention and praise the band are getting in recent years. “Of course things go in and out of fashion, don’t they? At the moment there seems to be a hunger for a good band that can play; that have a rawness and complexity to them,” he said. “It’s the human energy that you only get from a set of people standing on stage and exchanging that between them.”
“A lot of great stuff has happened in pop over the last 10 or 15 years or so, but it’s getting a bit stale. People are feeling that. I feel there’s a genuine desire for the rawness and the depth you can only get from a band.”
For their slot at Glastonbury this month, the band will be performing on The Other Stage on Friday (June 27) between 17:15 and 18:15. Their set will follow on from Wet Leg’s performance at 15:45, and come before Gracie Abrams, who will take to the stage at 18:45.
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