Lottery Winners’ massive homecoming stadium show ft. special guests Frank Turner & Reverend & The Makers - Leigh LSV Stadium, 30 May
- Desh Kapur
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A MONUMENTAL HOMECOMING CELEBRATION FOLLOWING 2X UK NO.1 ALBUMS IN 3 YEARS
LOTTERY WINNERS
BIGGEST EVER UK HEADLINE SHOW
SATURDAY 30TH MAY, 2026
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE STADIUM, GREATER MANCHESTER
JOINED ON STAGE BY SPECIAL GUESTS
FRANK TURNER, REVEREND & THE MAKERS & MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
PLUS SUPPORT FROM
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS, THE LILACS, KATIE OWEN DJ
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Lottery Winners have announced their biggest ever UK headline show - a huge, career-defining homecoming at Leigh Sports Village Stadium on Saturday 30th May 2026.
This landmark event marks a full-circle moment for the unstoppable Leigh band, who over the past few years have transformed from cult heroes into chart-topping national treasures.
Lottery Winners are pulling out all the stops for what promises to be an unforgettable night. They’ll be joined on stage by a stellar lineup of special guests they’ve previously collaborated with, and who have appeared on their albums, including Frank Turner, and Reverend & The Makers, with further to be announced.
Support will come from close friends of the band Scouting for Girls, the chart-topping London trio best known for infectious hits like She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, and This Ain’t a Love Song. They’ll be joined by local favourites The Lilacs, and a DJ set from Katie Owen to round off the night.
Thom Rylance of Lottery Winners said “Leigh Sports Village isn’t just another show for us, it’s a marker of everything we’ve worked for. From loading gear into pubs to travelling the world, every step has led here. To headline a stadium at home is rare, and we don’t take that lightly. This night will stand as proof of what’s possible when you keep on keeping on.
Headlining Leigh Sports Village is special in itself but doing it here in our hometown - surrounded by the people who’ve supported us from the very start - makes it truly unforgettable. The fact that we get to welcome legends and friends like Frank Turner, Reverend and the Makers and Scouting for Girls to our town feels incredible. It’s Leigh opening its doors to the world, and we’re proud to be the ones hosting”.
Lottery Winners will be only the fourth act to headline the Leigh Sports Village Stadium following Elton John in 2014 and Lionel Richie in 2018; as well as Billy Ocean who performs the night before them. They will also play a warm-up gig for the show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on Saturday 16 May.
The band are using the show to spark a wider movement highlighting limited access to the arts in Leigh and across the Wigan borough - an area that research identifies as among the most deprived in the UK. Alongside the concert, they’re working in schools, launching “Song for Leigh” (co-written with young local artists through Arts Council-supported funding), and supporting a documentary about the event made by emerging local filmmakers. Together, these initiatives aim to strengthen Leigh’s bid to become the UK’s first Town of Culture.
Lottery Winners will also be awarded a Believe Star in May – the highest accolade awarded to a resident of Wigan Borough. Previous recipients include Sir Ian McKellen, Keely Hodgkinson, and Ella Toone.
This monumental one-off show crowns a meteoric rise for the four-piece - Thom Rylance, Rob Lally, Katie Lloyd and Joe Singleton - who made history as the only act from Leigh ever to claim a UK No.1 album. First came 2023’s critically acclaimed, emotionally charged Anxiety Replacement Therapy, followed last year by the euphoric and ambitious KOKO, which cemented their place as one of the UK’s most loved bands
The show follows a relentless run of landmark achievements: main stage festival appearances, national radio playlisting, major TV slots - and a blockbuster summer last year supporting Robbie Williams, performing at some of the biggest stadiums across the UK and Europe. The tour also saw Thom and Katie joining Robbie live on stage as part of his show.
Robbie stated on the tour:
‘I’ve completely fallen in love with the Lottery Winners, and even when the tour was just two weeks in, I had a pang of sadness that their tenure with me can’t last forever.’
After over 15 years of hard graft and determination, Lottery Winners have grown from the margins to the masses with their honest, uplifting take on mental health and modern life, wrapped in the band’s unmistakable charm and singalong indie-pop bangers. They are now ready to celebrate how far they’ve come by looking ahead to how far they can go, as their songs take their place as the stadium anthems they were always meant to be.
After 15 years on the margins, Lottery Winners have become a case study in late-blooming success, but also in how a regional band can convert momentum into real impact… and it raises questions of if a band starting now could do this in 15 years time.