Belle & Sebastian Announce Extensive 2026 UK & European Tour for 30th Anniversaries

Belle & Sebastian have added more shows to their huge UK and European tour, celebrating 30 years of ‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’.

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The Glasgow band announced last summer that they would be hitting the road in 2026 to celebrate three decades of their landmark first two studio albums .

Kicking off in February, the tour saw Stuart Murdoch and co. embark on a series of double-header shows in various cities across Europe, the UK and North America. At the first of the two dates they played ‘Tigermilk’ in full and at the second they broke out all of ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’.

Dates were originally meant to wrap up on June 26 and 27 with two back-to-back nights at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Bandstand. However, Belle and Sebastian have added another round of UK and European dates to their 2026 tour.

New shows all take place between November 27 and December 9 and include gigs in Athens, Rome, Munich, Frankfurt and more, followed by UK stops in Nottingham, Norwich, Cardiff, Bristol, Bexhill-on-Sea, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow.

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All new shows will see them play ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ in full along with fan favourites, except from Rotterdam, Nottingham and Bristol, where they’ll perform ‘Tigermilk’ in full with fan favourites.

Tickets for the new shows go on general sale at 9am BST/10am CEST on Friday (June 19). Visit here for tickets and more information.

Other live shows coming up from Belle & Sebastian include previously announced festival slots at Halifax’s Live At The Piece Hall, On The Mount at Wasing series in Berkshire, as well as Australian tour dates in September.

Belle & Sebastian upcoming tour dates are:

JUNE

20 – Dundee Caird Hall

26 – Glasgow Kelvingrove Bandstand

27 – Glasgow Kelvingrove Bandstand

28 – Reading Wasing Estate

JULY

31 – Margate Dreamland

SEPTEMBER

12 – Melbourne Palais Theatre

13 – Sydney Enmore Theatre

15 – Brisbane Fortitude Music Hall

17 – Perth Astor Theatre

18 – Perth Astor Theatre

NOVEMBER

27 – Athens Floyd (Greece)

29 – Rome Orion (Italy)

DECEMBER

1 – Munich Muffathalle (Germany)

2 – Frankfurt Zoom (Germany)

3 – Fribourg Fri Son (Switzerland)

5 – Rotterdam Theater Rotterdam (Netherlands)

7 – Maastricht Muziekgieterij (Netherlands)

8 – Nijmegen Doornroosje (Netherlands)

9 – Brussels La Madeleine (Belgium)

11- Nottingham Rock City

12 – Norwich Nick Rayns Lcr

13 – Cardiff University Great Hall

15 – Bristol Beacon

16 – Bexhill on Sea De La Warr Pavilion

18 – Liverpool Mountford Hall

19 – Sheffield City Hall

21 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

‘Tigermilk’ and ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ established Belle & Sebastian as cult favourites to the ‘90s indie crowd, and the band have remained active ever since, releasing 10 further studio albums. Their most recent was 2023’s ‘ Late Developers ’.

Earlier this month, the Scottish indie heroes released their buoyant 2026 Scotland World Cup anthem, ‘It Only Takes One Lion’.

They wrote the anthem after the team’s surprise 4-2 qualifying win against Denmark, and frontman Stuart Murdoch then spoke to NME about the track .

“I never planned it. I woke up with a tune in my head and a feeling,” he explained. “That’s the way it should always be for songs. I couldn’t control myself and it was quite straight-forward. I wrote this initial bit about how I felt about the current World Cup team and the qualifying game. It was more introspective.”

He continued: “When it starts off with, ‘The days are dark and long…’, it’s just my general feeling about football. I’ve been going to see my own team quite a lot recently. It’s my little anthem for how I feel about football and following Scotland for the last 50 years, just the ups and downs. It’s quite a heartfelt thing.”

Since the song dropped, Scotland have played their first match at the 2026 World Cup, defeating Haiti 1–0 on Sunday (June 14). It was Midfielder John McGinn who scored at the 28minute mark, and the victory marked the nation’s first World Cup finals win in 36 years.

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