The Jacksons, featuring original Jackson 5 members, announce 2026 UK tour

The Jacksons  have announced a string of UK shows for later this year – see all the dates and ticket information below.

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Billed as ‘Jackson 5 Live In Concert’, the dates will see original Jackson 5 members Marlon and Jackie Jackson perform in Manchester, Cardiff, Wolverhampton and London this November.

The run will begin at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on November 6, before continuing to Utilita Arena Cardiff on November 8 and the Wolverhampton Civic on November 11. It will wrap up at London’s Eventim Apollo on November 13.

Support on all dates will come from London funk and disco band Heatwave, who had hits throughout the ’70s and ’80s with tracks including ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Always And Forever’.

Tickets are on sale now, and you can find yours  here .

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The Jacksons’ 2026 UK tour dates are:

NOVEMBER

6 – Manchester, O2 Apollo

8 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena Cardiff

11 – Wolverhampton, Civic at the Halls

13 – London, Eventim Apollo

The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame-inducted group rose to fame as The Jackson 5 with Jackie, Tito,  Jermaine , Marlon and  Michael Jackson , scoring a run of hits including ‘I Want You Back’, ‘ABC’, ‘The Love You Save’ and ‘I’ll Be There’, before later continuing as The Jacksons.

The current live show will also feature Mitchell Zhangazha, who recently starred as Michael Jackson in  MJ The Musical , and Haydon Eshun, who played the lead in the West End’s Thriller  show for over 10 years.

The group are portrayed in the hugely successful Michael Jackson biopic  Michael , which stars Jermaine’s son Jaafar Jackson in the title role.

It follows Jackson from his early involvement with The Jackson 5 in the 1960s up until the ‘Bad’ world tour in the late 1980s, and Jackie and Marlon Jackson are listed as executive producers on the film.

Michael  opened in April with the biggest-ever first weekend for a music biopic , and has since  become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time , surpassing  Bohemian Rhapsody with $911.9million (£680million) at the worldwide box office.

A sequel is already moving forward , and it is likely to renew discussion around the child sexual abuse allegations made against Jackson. The original script for Michael had reportedly addressed the 1993 Jordan Chandler allegations in its third act, before a clause in a legal settlement was found that prevented the Jackson estate from depicting Chandler , forcing substantial reshoots.

Jackson denied allegations of child sexual abuse during his lifetime and was acquitted in a separate 2005 criminal trial. James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who made their own allegations against Jackson in the 2019 documentary  Leaving Neverland , have since  been given a new trial date for 2028  in their civil case against the late singer’s estate.

In a three-star review of  Michael ,  NME  wrote: “So,  Michael  feels like a job well done: it’s a slick, accessible advert for Jackson’s incredible imperial phase. But if the singer’s estate wanna be startin’ somethin’ bigger like a film franchise, they’ll have their work cut out.”

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