Dead Dads Club have announced a May 2026 UK headline tour – check out all the dates and ticket information below.
The new project of former Palma Violets frontman Chilli Jesson, Dead Dads Club released their self-titled debut album in January via Fiction Records, produced by Fontaines D.C. guitarist Carlos O’Connell.
Now, they have announced a string of dates to take place in May around the UK, kicking off in Birmingham’s Sunflower Lounge on May 12 before heading to Cardiff, Brighton, Norwich, London, Bedford and Liverpool, before wrapping at Southampton’s Zerox on May 22.
Tickets are on sale now and you can find yours here.
Dead Dads Club will play:
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12 – Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
13 – Cardiff, Clwd Ifor Bach
14 – Brighton, The Great Escape
15 – Norwich, Voodoo Daddy’s
19 – London, Camden Assembly
20 – Bedford, Esquires
21 – Liverpool, Rough Trade
22 – Southampton, Zerox
The new album comes 13 years after the first Palma Violets album and after a short-lived second project Crewel Intentions and a third under his own name, he went on to play with Fontaines D.C. as a live multi-instrumentalist in 2023, where he connected with O’Connell.
It sees Jesson contending with grief and loss and it unwraps the multitude of emotions that have prevailed since losing his father to drug addiction at the age of 14.
He spoke to NME earlier this year about the record: “This record can be interpreted, lyrically, as a very specific time for me, or it can be loss in general,” Jesson told NME. “This was an album that I’d wanted to write since I was 15, but I didn’t have the capability to get it out. I never used to really speak about it – at all. I used to be a fucking closed book with this subject.
“My sister [Georgie Jesson] came out with a book of poetry recently about the same theme, funnily enough, and I think that really inspired me,” he continued. “She had been working on her work for a long while, so the fact that we’ve both got pieces of art coming out about the same subject is quite fascinating.”
NME awarded the album four stars, writing: “By digging into his bleakest moments, Jesson has steered himself musically back on course: no-one ever wants to join Dead Dads Club, but at least if you’re there you’ve got a good soundtrack.”
