Scissor Sisters announce huge UK outdoor shows for summer 2026

Scissor Sisters have announced some huge UK outdoor shows for next summer.

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Dubbed ‘The Kiki Continues’ tour, the shows will see the New York band perform live at London’s Brockwell Park on May 31, before continuing with a stop at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire on July 26.

The rest of the new dates all take place the following month, and include gigs in Saffron Walden, Scarborough and Halifax on August 6,8 and 9 respectively. They wrap up the shows with a final night at the Queens Park Recreation Ground in Glasgow on August 30.

These new shows add onto the handful of festival dates the band have lined-up for the UK over the summer – including a headline slot at London’s Mighty Hoopla, Hampshire’s Boomtown Fair, and Cornwall’s Rock Oyster Festival.

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Tickets for the outdoor headline gigs go on sale next Friday (November 21) at 10am. Visit here for tickets and check out a list of tour dates below.

Scissor Sisters’ 2026 UK outdoor shows are:

MAY
31 – London, Brockwell Park

JULY
26 – Ludlow Castle

AUGUST
6 – Saffron Walden, Audley End
8 – Scarborough, Open Air Theatre
9 – Halifax, Piece Hall
30 – Glasgow, Queens Park Recreation Ground

While the band have not shared an album of new music since 2012’s ‘Magic Hour’, they did share a standalone single called ‘Swerlk’ with MNDR in 2017, as well as reissue their self-titled debut album in 2024, and follow that up with a ‘Deluxe Expanded’ version earlier this year.

They also supported Kesha on her recent run of across North American shows, and celebrated their 20th anniversary by heading out on tour and playing a huge slot at Glastonbury, bringing out Sir Ian McKellen as a special guest.

Towards the end of 2024, singer Jake Shears and bassist Babydaddy also spoke to NME about the tour dates planned for 2025, and how it felt to be described by some as a “gay band”.

When asked if it “grated” them to have that label, Shears replied: “It did, yeah. I was looking at our straight counterparts, and, I had a bit of resentment that we sort of had this extra label that made it easier for some [people] to dismiss us. I think I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder about that.”

Babydaddy agreed, saying: “It’s a lot less loaded now, but in that moment, I think there was a question of, like, ‘Are people saying that to put [the band] in its own little box?’ I don’t really know what it was supposed to say, except that we were open about who we were, and there were some themes [in our music] that were definitely queer themes.”

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