South Arcade have announced the ‘Welcome To The Real World’ UK and European tour, kicking off in 2027.
The new shows come following the Oxford rockers recently wrapping up their support slots with 5 Seconds Of Summer, and playing a raucous set at Download Festival this past weekend.
Dates kick off on February 7 with an opening night at the Limelight 1 venue in Belfast, before continuing with shows in Dublin, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and more throughout the month.
UK shows wrap up with the previously confirmed date at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on February 25, and from there the band launch the European leg of shows, with stops in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and more.
Support will come from Mouth Culture at all UK dates, and you can visit here for tickets, which go on sale at 10am BST on Friday (June 19).
South Arcade UK 2027 tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
7 – Belfast, Limelight 1
8 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre
10 – Leeds, O2 Academy Leeds
12 – Manchester, Manchester Academy
13 – Newcastle, UPON TYNE NX
14 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
16 – Birmingham, O2 Academy Birmingham
18 – Nottingham, Rock City
19 – Norwich, Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
21 – Cardiff, Cardiff University Students Union
22 – Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol
25 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
MARCH
2 – Amsterdam, Melkweg O2
4 – Hamburg, Bahnof Pauli
5 – Berlin, Lido
7 – Warsaw, Proxima
9 – Vienna, Szene
10 – Prague, Fuchsz
11 – Munich, Strom
13 – Milan, Circolo Magnolia
14 – Zurich, Plaza
16 – Cologne, CBE
17 – Brussels, Botanique Museum
18 – Paris, Backstage By The Mill
The announcement of the ‘Welcome To The Real World’ tour comes as South Arcade dropped their latest single ‘DEADMEAT’ earlier this month.
That energetic track holds the same ‘00s, nu-metal-inspired sound that first put South Arcade on the map, and captures an energy of reckless abandon and unfiltered joy.
“We went into writing wanting to tell a sort of modern Romeo and Juliet story (but with a less depressing ending), and we left with ‘DEADMEAT’,” he band explained. “It has this reckless optimism about it where the two characters’ worlds shouldn’t really overlap but they’ve found each other regardless – they want to escape all of that noise, steal a car and leave town. It had this ‘us against the world’ energy that we loved.”
The song follows on from another recent single, ‘SUPERMAN’, which dropped in April and has become their biggest streaming debut to date.
South Arcade featured on the NME 100 at the start of the year, and before then spoke to us as part of a Radar feature where they opened up about accidentally finding their unique sound after realising that “there wasn’t that much in common with music we all liked” when starting out.
“We just wanted a weird melting pot of all our influences,” said bassist Ollie Green. “In the early days, The 1975 were an influence — not sound-wise, but in the sense that the producers were part of the band and they would draw inspiration from a lot of different things.
“We never wanted to make music that was one thing. We’re not the band where we go to the studio, record 10 songs, and they all sound pretty similar. We’re the opposite of that.”
