The Coral announce their first headline UK Tour in three years

The Coral announce their first headline UK Tour in three years, detailing six dates alongside new visuals for...

LEAVE IT IN THE PAST

The Coral – 388 UK TOUR

SIX HEADLINE DATES – ON SALE FRI 3 JULY, 9.30AM

THREE ARENA DATES SUPPORTING THE MARY WALLOPERS

The new album 388 – OUT NOW on Run On Records

Standard & Coloured Vinyl, CD, Digital

https://thecoral.co.uk/

The Coral have announced their first headline UK tour in almost three years a month after surprise releasing their acclaimed, thirteenth album, 388. Opening in Sheffield on Fri 2 October 2026, a run of six shows, plus three arena support dates with The Mary Wallopers, are celebrated by the Merseyside five piece by simultaneously releasing a new video for optimistic new single, Leave It In The Past.

Pursuing a purposely low-ley, no hype non-strategy for the release of the 11-track, 388, the album was fully released at the end of May following two weeks under cover, stocked unannounced on independent record shop shelves in just one, standard black vinyl format. As inspired by the band’s innocent formative days as the taped compilations they shared, Rocksteady, the earliest Wailers recordings and 60’s girl groups, The Coral enjoyed complete artistic freedom cut loose from outside expectations and commercial considerations.

Recorded to an original 1970’s Tascam 388 tape recorder and employing a ‘warts and all’ policy of retaining the essentially human, profoundly analogue sounds within the studio, mistakes included, the album was revealed with focus on the album opener, Let The Music Play, With a continued sense of introspection and focus on their roots, the release of a new video for Leave It In The Past finds the band performing amongst the bargains of Birkenhead Market in the company of director, James Slater.

Singer and songwriter, James Skelly, says of the location choice: “Ian and I used to live above a pub in Charing Cross, Birkenhead and wander round the market at weekends. It was a magical place to us. The atmosphere of the place, and the characters you still find there, reflect the ethos of ‘388’. It’s simultaneously of today and another time entirely.”

While The Coral have continued to perform at select festivals and supporting friends since their last headline tour ended in December 2024, almost three years have passed since that last run of dates in support of their 12th album, Sea Of Mirrors. Following another busy summer of select outdoor dates, the band looks ahead to the 388 UK Tour with support duties shared between Mozart Estate, founded Lawrence of Denim and Felt, and The Zutons singer-songwriter, Dave McCabe.

All of The Coral’s confirmed 388 UK Tour dates are as follows:

Fri 2 October – Sheffield, Foundry*

Fri 9 October – Newcastle, Boiler Shop**

Sat 10 October – Leeds, Project House**

Fri 16 October – London, KOKO**

Sat 17 October – Brighton, Centre***

Fri 23 October – Manchester, Albert Hall**

Sat 24 October – Birmingham, O2 Institute 2**

Fri 10 December – Dublin, 3Arena***

Fri 18 December – Glasgow, Ovo Hydro***

* supported by Dave McCabe

** supported by Mozart Estate

*** with The Mary Wallopers

Tickets for all dates go on sale Fri 3 July 2026 at 9.30am via links published on www.thecoral.co.uk

388 was released into the slipstream of The Coral’s most recent, high-charting album successes, including 2021’s opulent double-album, Coral Island and 2024’s imagined Mediterranean dustbowl film soundtrack, Sea Of Mirrors. Recorded in the company of long-standing co-producer, Chris Taylor at Kempston Street Studios, Liverpool, the band stated that that the album paid a debt, not only to the music they love, but to “the break-ups and break downs” and “the tours, the drugs, the births, the deaths” of the past thirty years.