Arlo Parks announces 2026 ‘Desire’ tour in UK, Europe and North America

    Arlo Parks has announced headline tour dates in the UK, Europe and North America for 2026. Find all the details below.

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    The London artist will hit the road later this year in support of her third studio album, ‘Ambiguous Desire’, which is out on April 3 via Transgressive.

    “So excited to announce the ‘Desire’ tour!! We’re taking it worldwide baby!!” Parks wrote on social media to confirm the forthcoming dates. She added: “Let’s laugh, cry and move our bodies.”

    The North American leg is set to kick off in Washington, D.C. on August 29, ahead of further stops in Boston, Toronto, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, New York and other cities throughout September and into early October.

    Parks will then head to the UK and Ireland for shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Bristol and Manchester, as well as a performance at the O2 Academy Brixton in London on October 20.

    A run of European concerts is scheduled between late October and early December. These include gigs in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Budapest, Copenhagen and Oslo.

    Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 10am local time next Friday (March 13). You’ll be able to buy yours here (UK and Ireland), here (North America) and here (Europe).

    Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time on Tuesday (March 10) by signing up here.

    Arlo Parks’ 2026 ‘Desire’ world tour dates are: 

    AUGUST
    29 – The Howard Theatre, Washington, DC
    31 – Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA

    SEPTEMBER
    01 – Royale, Boston, MA
    03 – MTELUS, Montreal, QC
    04 – HISTORY, Toronto, ON
    05 – Lincoln Factory, Detroit, MI
    09 – Granada Theater, Dallas, TX
    10 – Mohawk, Austin, TX
    14 – The Observatory North Park, San Diego, CA
    15 – Pappy & Harriet’s, Pioneertown, CA
    18 – The Bellwether, Los Angeles, CA
    19 – The Warfield, San Francisco, CA
    21 – Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
    22 – Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
    23 – Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
    25 – Metro Music Hall, Salt Lake City, UT
    26 – Gothic Theatre, Denver, CO
    29 – Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL

    OCTOBER
    01 – Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
    17 – The Ambassador, Dublin
    20 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
    24 – The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow
    25 – The Prospect Building, Bristol
    26 – Albert Hall, Manchester
    28 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
    30 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne
    31 – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin

    NOVEMBER
    03 – Cirque Royal, Brussels
    08 – La Gaite Lyrique, Paris
    10 – Sala La Riviera, Madrid
    11 – LAV, Lisbon
    13 – Apolo, Barcelona
    16 – Muffathalle, Munich
    18 – Palladium, Warszawa
    19 – Arena Wien, Vienna
    21 – ARCHA+, Prague
    22 – Akvárium Klub, Budapest
    24 – Kaufleuten, Zürich
    26 – den Atelier, Luxembourg City
    29 – Store Vega, Copenhagen

    DECEMBER
    01 – Parkteatret, Oslo
    02 – Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm

    ‘Ambiguous Desire’ will serve as the follow-up to Parks’ 2023 album ‘My Soft Machine’. She has already previewed the project with the singles ‘2SIDED’ and ‘Heaven’.

    Speaking about making the LP, she explained: “I danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed.

    “This record has desire at its centre. Desire is a life force, it’s a wanting, a yearning, a momentum – we are all alive because there is something or someone we want – desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.”

    Parks will showcase the album at a string of intimate gigs across the UK – see all dates below and get your tickets here.

    Arlo Parks’ 2026 intimate UK tour dates are:

    APRIL
    02 – Rough Trade x fabric, London
    04 – Crash x Wardrobe, Leeds
    06 – Rough Trade Nottingham x Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
    08 – Banquet x Circuit, London
    09 – Resident x CHALK, Brighton
    11 – Truck x O2 Academy, Oxford
    12 – Vinilo x The 1865, Southampton

    Meanwhile, Parks has contributed to the new ‘Help(2)’ charity album for War Child with the track ‘Nothing I Could Hide’. During an interview with NME, producer James Ford said: “She was working on new material, but this song didn’t fit on Arlo’s album for whatever reason and seemed to fit better on this record.”

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