Cancer Bats announce 2026 UK tour

Cancer Bats have announced a UK headline tour for later this year – see all of the dates and ticket information below.

The Canadian hardcore band will hit the road in October for the first annual Marshall ‘Made Of Loud’ tour, which will see them joined by special guests Ignite and Knives at all dates.

The run will take them all around the UK, kicking off at The Booking Hall in Dover on October 12 and wrapping up with a huge Halloween show at London’s Electric Brixton on October 31.

“We are beyond excited to announce this Marshall Made Of Loud Tour!!” the band have said. “Playing all our favourite independent venues across the UK, with Ignite and Knives, and we end it all with a Halloween show in London!! This is going to be an insane tour!!!”

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

Cancer Bats will play: 

OCTOBER 
12 – Dover, The Booking Hall 
13 – Brighton, Chalk 
15 – Exeter, Cavern 
16 – Falmouth, Princess Pavilion 
17 – Southampton, The Joiners 
18 – Plymouth, The Depø 
20 – Bristol, The Fleece 
21 – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 
22 – Milton Keynes, Craufurd Arms 
24 – Birmingham, The Asylum 
25 – Manchester, Gorilla 
26 – Newcastle, Anarchy Brew Co 
28 – Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut 
29 – Leeds, The Key Club 
30 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms 
31 – London, Electric Brixton 

The tour comes ahead of the release of Cancer Bats’ eighth studio album ‘Give Me Dirt’, which is set to arrive on August 7 via Bat Skull / Marshall Records. Pre-order your copy here.

The record marks the band’s first for Marshall Records and follows their 2022 album ‘Psychic Jailbreak’. It is produced by Kurt Ballou alongside Zach Weeks at God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, and features the current line-up of Liam Cormier, Mike Peters, Jaye Schwarzer and Jackson Landry.

Cancer Bats have also shared the new single ‘Stay Stuck’, accompanied by a video directed by Mitch Barnes, which you can watch above.

“‘Stay Stuck’ was such a fun song for us to write,” Cormier has said. “It was one of the first songs that we finished while working on the new record, and we really all felt like we had tapped into the classic Cancer Bats bouncy fun element we’ve had in songs since the beginning.”

‘Psychic Jailbreak’ arrived in 2022 as Cancer Bats’ first album since founding guitarist Scott Middleton’s departure. Speaking with NME around the time, Cormier spoke about the newest wave of hardcore, saying IDLES were “basically the biggest hardcore band on the planet”.

Before the October tour, Cancer Bats are also set to play 2000trees festival at Upcote Farm in Cheltenham in July.