After teasing new music just a few days ago (June 21), Royal Blood have today (June 23) announced some new summer 2026 comeback shows. Check out all the dates below.
Over on Instagram at the weekend, the band shared a clip of new music and encouraged fans “to sign up to the mailing list”, prompting fans to speculate a new album could be on the way.
Then, today, the band confirmed that they would be “returning this summer for three special shows in Margate, Southampton and Guildford.” They also added that at the events, they would “play you a couple of new songs,” revealing that new music was indeed on the horizon.
Royal Blood told fans to sign up to the mailing list here by midnight on June 24 to get pre-sale access, which begins on June 25 at 10am BST. The general ticket sale begins on June 26 10am BST, and you can get tickets for that here.
Check out the posts below, along with the dates.
Back in 2024, the band celebrated the 10th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, telling NME at the time that “it’s still a record that we live and breathe.”
Reflecting on the album and their career, the band said their debut saw them go from being “independent lone rangers trying to find ourselves shows” playing cosy pub gigs, to winning BRIT and NME Awards and playing huge stages at Glastonbury and Reading & Leeds in 18 months.
The record went double-Platinum, as well as bagging a four-star review from NME which declared: “Their impact will surely stretch beyond rock’s confines”.
Remembering the release of their debut, the band’s Mike Kerr told NME: “At the time that record came out, it was a bit of a whirlwind. I don’t think we would truly take stock of what was happening. Hindsight is a great thing, because you look back and realise how wild it was. For people to build long lasting relationships with things, you need time on your side.
“It’s one thing having a great new song that you’re into, but when there’s a song that you love and it gets baked in with your memories and where you were at that time when it came out, when time moves on those songs become more than just a catchy song that you like, they become a meaningful portal back into that era.”
The band’s last album, ‘Back To The Water Below‘ was released in 2023.
In a four star review of this, NME said the album “feels like a return for Royal Blood. Honouring their gut, as Kerr said they did in the studio, has manifested fertile results for their band. ‘Whenever we do something really honest, it’s musically very powerful,’ the bassist told NME. There’s power in trusting your instincts, and ‘Back To The Water Below’ backs that assertion.”
