Echo & The Bunnymen announce ‘The Very Best Of’ 2026 UK tour

Echo & The Bunnymen have shared details of a new UK tour, celebrating the ‘Very Best Of’ their discography. Check out the details and ticket information below.

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Taking place next spring, the dates will see the iconic British band hit the road in celebration of the songs that have cemented their legacy over the years, and led to them earning 20 Top 20 hits and nine Top 20 albums.

Dubbed ‘The Very Best of Echo & The Bunnymen 1978-2026’, the tour will see them break out classics from seminal albums ‘Crocodiles’, ‘Heaven Up Here’, ‘Porcupine’ and ‘Ocean Rain’, and other tracks from later albums ‘Evergreen’, ‘What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?’, ‘Flowers’, ‘Siberia, ‘The Fountain’ and ‘Meteorites’.

The first of the 14 new shows will take place in The Nick Rayns LCR in Norwich on March 4, before continuing in Warrington, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol on March 6, 7, 11, and 13.

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Other new shows include a slot at the Brighton Centre and London’s Roundhouse on March 14 and 18 respectively, as well as shows in Liverpool, Cambridge, Bournemouth and Birmingham throughout the rest of the month.

Dates wrap up with stops in Nottingham, Edinburgh and Newcastle on April 1, 3, and 4 respectively. Tickets go on sale on Friday (September 19) at 9am. Visit here for tickets and find a list of new dates below.

Echo & The Bunnymen 2026 UK tour dates are:

MARCH
4 – Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
6 – Warrington Parr Hall
7 – Leeds O2 Academy
11 – Manchester Albert Hall
13 – Bristol Beacon
14 – Brighton Centre
18 – London Roundhouse
21 – Liverpool Empire Theatre
25 – Cambridge Corn Exchange
27 – Bournemouth O2 Academy
28 – Birmingham O2 Academy 1

APRIL
1 – Nottingham Rock City
3 – Edinburgh Usher Hall
4 – Newcastle O2 City Hall

The new dates come as the pioneers of post-punk have been playing live shows throughout this year too, including a slot at Splendour Festival alongside Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, Jake Bugg, Travis and more, and a headline show at the Halifax Piece Hall.

Before then, Courtney Love said at the end of 2024 that she was working with Echo’s Will Sargent on her new solo album, but not the “rude” PJ Harvey.

The band’s latest LP arrived in 2018, in the form of ‘The Stars, The Ocean and The Moon’.

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