Pixies announce details of 40th anniversary tour in UK and Europe
Pixies have announced a major tour of the UK and Europe in 2026, to celebrate their 40th anniversary as a band.
The alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1986, and will celebrate reaching this massive milestone together as a group by visiting cities across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands as part of their Pixies 40 tour.
Now consisting of singer Black Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, and drummer David Lovering, along with new bassist Emma Richardson, Pixies return to the UK as a celebration of the musical landscape in which they first made their name, before going on to become stalwarts of the alternative rock scene of the 1990s and all over the world.
Having then broken up in 1993, the band returned to form a decade later and have consistently released albums for the past 20 years, their most recent of which was The Night the Zombies Came, released as their ninth studio record in October last year.
However, ever since their very earliest days, Pixies have defined themselves on creating an inimitable wall of sound as their approach. This has made them the ultimate force within the scene, and also garnered them acclaim and worship from artists who would go on to make a seismic shift in the industry after being guided by their influence, such as Kurt Cobain.
For the UK and Ireland leg of the tour, the band will visit York, Dunfermline, Manchester, Limerick, and Dublin, with the highlight coming on May 28th with their first ever headline appearance at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London.
Tickets for the Pixies 40 tour will be made available to buy from September 26th.
Pixies 40 UK and European tour dates 2026:
May
- 20th – Barbican, York
- 21st – Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
- 25th – Aviva Studios, Manchester
- 28th – Royal Albert Hall, London
- 31st – Live at the Castle, Limerick
June
- 2nd – Olympia, Dublin
- 30th – Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
July
- 1st – Parkbühne Clara-Zetkin-Park
- 2nd – myticket Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt
- 14th – Parco Della Musica, Milan
- 17th – Maassilo, Rotterdam
- 18th – Muziekcentrum, Enschede
- 19th – PLT, Heerlen
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