Copy of Royel Otis announce summer 2026 headline shows, including Birmingham O2 Academy

ROYEL OTIS

ANNOUNCE SUMMER 2026 HEADLINE SHOWS

OPENING FOR FOO FIGHTERS ACROSS

EUROPEAN STADIUMS INCLUDING ANFIELD ON 27 JUNE

Royel Otis have announced a run of UK headline shows for June 2026, performing in Dublin, Birmingham, Halifax and Bristol, before they join Foo Fighters at Anfield Stadium. Tickets for the headline shows go on sale at 10am on Friday 28th November, available here.

The news comes as the band have just concluded three sold out O2 Brixton Academy shows in London, before playing two sold out O2 Victoria Warehouse shows in Manchester this weekend.

2025 marked Royel Otis’ true breakout. They played major festivals including Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Reading & Leeds, Fuji Rock, Outside Lands, Osheaga, Mad Cool. They sold more than 250,000 tickets worldwide, including a fully sold-out US headline run, back-to-back sold-out shows in New York and Toronto, and packed nights in Boston, and have also made appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge and Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show.

2026 is set to be another big year for the band, performing at Coachella and touring Europe opening for Foo Fighters, alongside this newly announced run of headline shows.

Their live reputation keeps growing. Onstage, their dynamic feels effortless. They move like two friends with one shared pulse, locking in with the crowd until the whole room feels synced. “We just want to make people dance together,” says Otis. “Everyone’s invited.”

That energy shaped their new album hickey. The record is a cleaner, sharper and more confident chapter. It’s romantic and a bit naughty, as Royel puts it, because “love bites harder than any other emotion.” Songs like moody hit #1 on both the US AAA Mediabase and Billboard charts for more than seven weeks, making them the first new act to reach #1 in 2025. The track also landed A-List rotation on BBC 6 Music, while car earned the BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record and weeks on the B-List. Across the board, they’ve scored more than a billion streams globally, 150 million of them in the UK alone. They now sit at 12.6 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than half a million followers on the platform.

With hickey, Royel Otis cement themselves as one of the most exciting new names in indie rock. The confidence is real. And if the past year is anything to go by, this is just the beginning. Let’s just say the mark they’re leaving isn’t fading anytime soon.

2026 UK Dates:

23 June – Dublin Fairview Park

24 June – Birmingham O2 Academy

25 June – Halifax The Piece Hall

27 June – Anfield Stadium (w/ Foo Fighters)

28 June - Bristol Sounds