Interpol and Bloc Party have announced a co-headline UK and European tour for 2026. Find all the details below.
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The two indie bands are set to hit the road together late next year, after teasing the upcoming run of dates on social media earlier this week.
Both groups broke through in the ’00s, and will be treating crowds to material from across their 20-year-plus careers – including tracks from Bloc Party’s seminal debut ‘Silent Alarm’ (2005) and Interpol’s landmark second record ‘Antics’ (2004).
They previously toured the UK together in 2004, and co-headlined a series of shows in Australia in 2023.
The forthcoming trek includes gigs in Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and other European cities in November.
From there, Interpol and Bloc Party will return to the UK and Ireland for performances in Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Brighton, Sheffield, Dublin and Glasgow. The tour is due to conclude with two nights at London’s Olympia on December 4 and 5.
Tickets go on general sale at 9am GMT next Friday (November 7) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time on Wednesday (5) by signing up to the bands’ mailing lists.
Interpol and Bloc Party’s 2026 European and UK tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
10 – Copenhagen, Royal Arena
11 – Berlin, Uber Arena
12 – Hamburg, Barclays Arena
14 – Düsseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
16 – Paris, Le Zenith
17 – Amsterdam, AFAS Live
18 – Brussels, Forest National
20 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
21 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
23 – Manchester, Aviva Studios
24 – Manchester, Aviva Studios
26 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
27 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
28 – Sheffield, Utilita Arena
30 – Dublin, 3Arena
DECEMBER
02 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
04 – London, Olympia
05 – London, Olympia
Interpol’s seventh and latest album, ‘The Other Side Of Make-Believe’, was released in 2022. They have recently been working on its follow-up, which is expected to arrive in 2026.
Speaking to NME this summer, guitarist Daniel Kessler said: “It feels great. We’ve still got a little bit of work to do, but it’s really getting there. We’re all really excited about the results and the feel of it. It will be coming out next year.
“There are some upbeat tracks, but also some different atmospherics that I don’t think we’ve had before. There are different moods. It’s not all rock; some of it is more upbeat in a different kind of way to what people might think of Interpol. It’s been a really fun process. We finished touring after two and a half years in December and then started making the record in January. It just worked out calendar-wise.”
He added: “It’s the first album we recorded in New York in 10 years, and it has a very winter-time New York feel to it. The studio had an open floor, we could see the skyline, and it had this Gotham kind of setting for us. It’s got a sense of that, for sure.”
Interpol previously confirmed to NME that they’d been “writing a lot” in between touring, while reflecting on 20 years of ‘Antics’: “It’s not something you wish for, but there was also something amazing with what was happening.”
Bloc Party’s sixth and most recent LP, ‘Alpha Games’, arrived in 2022 too. This May, frontman Kele Okereke revealed to NME that the band were working with the legendary Trevor Horn on a new album of “disco heartbreak”. “Hopefully it will be out next year, but we’ll see,” he said at the time.
Meanwhile, Bloc Party recently released a 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Silent Alarm’, and have been celebrating the record on tour – including at their huge show in London’s Crystal Palace Park last summer.
Earlier this year, Bloc Party received the Outstanding Song Collection award at the Ivors 2025.
