Enter Shikari Announce Biggest-Ever UK & EU Arena Tour

Enter Shikari Announce Biggest-Ever UK & EU Arena Tour

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Enter Shikari are gearing up for a massive UK and European arena tour this November, announced along with a headline tour of Australia in May!

The European leg kicks off on 3rd November at Hamburg’s Sporthalle, before the band take on their biggest-ever German headline show at Düsseldorf’s Mitsubishi Halle, boasting a capacity of 7,500 fans. The UK dates follow, starting at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on 13th November, with stops including Cardiff, Hull, Glasgow – where the band will play their first-ever arena show—and Manchester, marking their largest show to date in the city. The tour culminates with two back-to-back nights at London’s Alexandra Palace on 20th and 21st November. Supporting the band across both the EU and UK legs will be Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys.

Frontman Rou Reynolds says, “November will bring our biggest arena tour ever. With a completely new show. I cannot say much yet but I can tell you now it will be our most thrilling. To get to play Ally Pally two nights in a row is going to be something of a fantasy. I bloody love that building and we will make sure we have the variety and theatrics to do the place justice. The tour also includes our biggest ever Belgian show, and first ever German headline arena show, which we’re all buzzing for.”

Fans buying tickets for the UK shows will also be supporting grassroots music, with £1 from every ticket going to the Music Venue Trust, an organisation dedicated to protecting small music venues across the country. Enter Shikari pioneered the scheme and will continue the tradition, Rou explains, “We will always support and fight for grassroots venues. They mean so much to us not just because we wouldn’t have made it to where we are now without them, but because they are the great bastions of community and creativity, without which, UK culture would decay dramatically. And we’d all be left drowning in the most mind-numbing corporate pop music and pointless, AI-produced drivel.”

Before the UK and EU arena dates, Enter Shikari will hit Australia in May, with shows in Newcastle, Frankston, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and more. The American-Canadian artist grandson will join as support on all but one of these dates.

This November tour marks the band’s first arena tour since their A Kiss For The Whole World tour in 2024, which celebrated their first-ever UK No.1 album. That tour included their debut Wembley Arena show, later immortalised in the live release Live At Wembley, featuring the first-ever FPV drone footage at the iconic venue.