Garbage and Skunk Anansie have announced a co-headline tour for summer 2026. Find all the details below.
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The ’90s alt-rock pioneers will be uniting for a string of shows next June. Things are set to kick off in Halifax, before they play across the UK, with gigs in Margate, Scarborough and Cardiff, before they wrap up in Southampton on June 23.
“We’re super excited to grace the stage with our friends and fellow legends Garbage,” write Skunk Anansie. “This tour is not only a meeting of minds and of music but a chance for us to sit back and be fan kids of one of our favourite bands.”
“Surprise, surprise, UK!” add Garbage. “We’re totally stoked to announce six co-headline shows next June with the phenomenal force that is Skunk Anansie.”
Tickets go on sale next Friday (November 14) and will be available here. Ahead of that, a pre-sale is available from Wednesday (November 12), which you can sign up for here.
Garbage and Skunk Anansie’s 2026 tour dates are:
JUNE
16 – The Piece Hall, Halifax
18 – Delamere Forest, Cheshire
19 – Dreamland Margate, Margate
20 – Scarborough Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
22 – Depot Live, Cardiff Castle
23 – Southampton Summer Sessions, Southampton
The news comes after Garbage played their last-ever US tour earlier this year, after they indicated that they are “unlikely to play many of the cities” in the run “ever again”.
While on the road, frontman Shirley Manson explained their decision to stop touring in the US, saying during one show: “We have as a band decided that, due to basically the economics of the music industry, that we have to curtail our headline touring business. It has, thanks to the thievery of the record industry, made touring very, very difficult.”
Speaking to NME last year, Manson opened up about the crushing and “abusive” financial strains of the music industry.
“Now what you have are musicians who are independently wealthy – maybe they come from a wealthy family – and they can start to carve out a career for themselves in the music industry,” the NME Icon Award winner told us. “You have the old guard who made records before 1995; they themselves can survive. Then the artists who enjoy phenomenal success also survive.
Garbage released their new album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’ in May. In a five-star review, NME wrote: “While the world can often feel like a dark place, there is a sense of empowerment that can be reached by letting in the light.”
Speaking to NME about the theme of love that runs through the album, Manson recently told us: “I’ve never really written about love very much. I always think it’s been written about by people a thousand more talented than me. I’m just not a romantic person, really.”
Skunk Anansie, meanwhile, released their latest album ‘The Painful Truth’ earlier this year. They opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in London this summer, following Skin and co’s UK headline tour in the spring.
Back in 2022, the band spoke to NME about their lengthy career and “ushering in a new generation of Black music” during an appearance on the red carpet of the MOBO Awards.
