Metric are bringing their 2026 tour with Broken Social Scene and Stars to the UK, Europe and Canada.
The new dates come following the band recently announcing their 10th studio album ‘Romanticize The Dive’ with the reflective single ‘Victim Of Luck’.
That record is set to be released on April 24 via Thirty Tigers, and to coincide with the announcement, Metric shared plans to hit the road across North America this summer with fellow Canadian indie heroes Broken Social Scene and Stars.
Tour dates kick off in June in the US, and will now include a UK and European leg. New shows include a stop at the 3 Olympia Theatre in Dublin on September 9, followed by shows in Glasgow, London, and Manchester. From there, three bands will play shows in Paris, Antwerp, Utrecht and Berlin, before wrapping things up with four new dates in Canada.
Tickets go on sale this Friday (March 20) at 10am local time, and pre-sale options open from tomorrow (Tuesday March 17) at 10am local time. Visit here for tickets to UK dates, here for tickets to international shows, and find an updated list of tour dates below.
Metric’s 2026 tour dates are:
JUNE
8 – Austin, Texas – Moody Amphitheater
9 – Dallas, Texas – South Side Ballroom
11 – Denver, Colorado – Fillmore Auditorium
13 – Sandy, Utah – Sandy Amphitheater
16 – Los Angeles, California – Greek Theatre Los Angeles
17 – Phoenix, Arizona – Arizona Financial Theatre
19 – San Diego, California – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
20 – Highland, California – Yaamava Pool at Yaamava Resort and Casino – Complex
21 – San Francisco, California – Masonic
24 – Bend, Oregon – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
25 – Seattle, Washington – Chateau Ste Michelle Winery
28 – Calgary, AB – Southern Jubilee Auditorium
29 – Edmonton, AB – Northern Jubilee Auditorium
JULY
24 – Chicago, Illinois – Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
25 – Detroit, Michigan – Fox Theatre Detroit
27 – Boston, Massachusetts – MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park
28 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark
30 – Brooklyn, New York – Paramount
AUGUST
1 – Washington, District of Columbia – Anthem
3 – Atlanta, Georgia – Tabernacle
4 – Nashville, Tennessee – Ryman Auditorium
7 – Toronto, Ontario – RBC Amphitheatre
SEPTEMBER
9 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre
11 – Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow
12 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
13 – Manchester, Academy
15 – Paris, Salle Pleyel
16 – Antwerp, De Roma
17 – Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg
18 – Berlin, Columbiahalle
OCTOBER
2 – St. Catherines, Ontario – Henley Island [headlining Cicada Festival]
3 – London, Ontario – Canada Life Place
5 – Ottawa, Ontario – TD Place
7 – Laval, Quebec – Place Bell
‘Romanticize The Dive’ will be the first new album from Metric since 2022 and 2023’s double album series ‘Formentera’ and ‘Formentera II’. Pre-order it here.
Speaking to NME last month about the upcoming record, frontwoman Emily Haines explained how she had taken a new approach to songwriting this time around.
“I’m trying to move away from hiding behind the lyrics,” she said. “Purple prose aside, my dad was a writer who was always writing in code. And I like writing in code, but I’ve been pushing myself to just say it. I’m saying, ‘I was a starving artist and I was fearless, but now I’m a bit cowardly.”
As for the dynamic of the band with album 10, the singer said that they were “going back to the days of the dive, the beginning of the band, feeling the love”, this time around, and returned to where they first met at the height of the ’00s indie explosion.
“For this record, we put back the OG crew that made [2009’s] ‘Fantasies’ so we could really look back at what our process was back then,” she said. “When we were looking for direction, we would go back and listen to our own work. It makes sense on your 10th album to ask, ‘What would Metric do?’ I don’t know! Let’s remember. What is the essence of the sound and the emotion of what we are?”
The frontwoman also spoke about the decision to join forces with Stars and Broken Social Scene for the 2026 tour, and added: “We’re not selling out six enormo-domes, we’re doing something else.”
“We want to remind people that there’s life to be had that isn’t just chasing that carrot of feeling like garbage if you don’t have all that money,” she continued, also adding that the tour will feel like a “little package of joy” for fans.
