Liz Lawrence has announced a 2026 UK tour. Find all the details below.
Earlier this year, Lawrence shared her latest album ‘Vespers’, which she described as being “about tragedy” in the wake of her sister’s death. Now, she’s announced a UK tour which is set to kick off later this year, which will showcase songs from the new album as well as her previous solo work.
The tour kicks off in Oxford on November 11, and will see her perform in Sheffield, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester and London, before wrapping up in Bristol on November 20.
Tickets go on sale on Friday (July 17) at 10am, and will be available here. See a full list of dates below.
Liz Lawrence’s 2026 UK tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
11 – Oxford Bullingdon
12 – Sheffield Yellow Arch Studios
13 – Leeds Brudenell Social Club
15 – Glasgow Mono
16 – Newcastle The Grove
17 – Manchester Night & Day Cafe
19 – London Oslo Hackney
20 – Bristol Strange Brew
The album explores the journey Lawrence went on after discovering, in the summer of 2024 while at a festival, that her sister Jessie had suffered a serious accident in Ireland. A call informed her that her sister was in intensive care and Lawrence and her brother should fly out immediately. Jessie later died, aged 35.
“What followed was the most profoundly altering period of my life,” Lawrence explained in a press release. “I learned about the beauty of the dying, the resilience of the living and the infinite fountain of love that sustains us.”
Speaking about the record, Lawrence says: “It is dedicated to my beautiful sister Jessie and her too-short life.”
‘Vespers’ was written over a period of three weeks, just six months after Jessie died. “If you want to understand the change in me, from the person who made ‘Peanuts’ to the person who wrote ‘Vespers’, then this is it. Grief changes you. I don’t recognise the person I was before,” Lawrence added.
In ‘Vespers’, Lawrence says there is a strong desire to commune. “To sing is to be closer to Jessie,” Lawrence shared, adding that she could not listen to music for months after Jessie died.
“I remember talking to my friend, who had recently lost his dad, and he was saying that he was using music to help him to cry…I was going through what billions of people have been through already, and somehow felt like there was nowhere for me to be. And so I went on Reddit and looked up the best grief records of all time.”
After discovering few written by women, Lawrence added: “I wanted someone to be able to say to a friend who is grieving that they should listen to ‘Vespers’. I want people to come to this record. I want people to use this record. I want it to have purpose, to give comfort and catharsis.”
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