Mystery Jets have announced a new tour for the UK and Ireland, taking place later this year. Check out the details below.
The new shows come in support of their upcoming seventh album, ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through’, which is set for release on August 21 via Fiction Records.
It is titled after Yoko Ono’s minimalist masterpiece of the same name and features the original work – a simple white postcard with a circle cut out – as the album cover, having been granted special permission by the artist herself.
Now, to celebrate the release, frontman Blaine Harrison and co. have announced new run of UK & Ireland headline dates for the end of 2026, kicking off at the SWG2 Studio Warehouse in Glasgow on November 22.
From there, the band head to the O2 Ritz in Manchester on the 23rd, before wrapping things up with shows at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town (24), Portsmouth’s The Wedgewood Rooms (27) and Dublin’s Academy Green Room (29).
Tickets go on sale on Friday (June 5) at 10am BST, and pre-sale options are available from Wednesday (June 3). Visit here for tickets.
Mystery Jets 2026 UK and Ireland tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
22 – SWG2 Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
23 – O2 Ritz, Manchester
24 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
27 – The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
29 – Academy Green Room, Dublin
The British indie rock band’s new album was written over the years since their 2020 record ‘A Billion Heartbeats’, and then recorded with producer Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Frightened Rabbit) at his East London HQ. Themes explored throughout the nine-song tracklist include freedom and forgiveness, trauma and wisdom.
“If 2016’s ‘Curve Of The Earth’ was written from the skies, looking back down, and ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ rooted itself firmly in the trenches of ‘the culture wars, and protests, and a very street-level perspective’, then their newest completes the trilogy by casting its gaze ‘back up from the void, to the cosmic again’,” reads a new press release.
“It’s an album with a clear, coherent point of view, comprising nine songs that all form fragments of a thematic whole.”
Already the album has been previewed by the reverb-drenched single ‘Black Sage’, alongside album opener and title track ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through I’. Visit here to pre-order.
In 2022, the band’s bassist, Jack Flanagan, launched a solo career, releasing the album ‘Rides The Sky’, which included the psychedelic single ‘Skyhorse X Skyhorse’.
Mystery Jets also shared a covers album, ‘Home Protests’, in 2020. Explaining how they recorded the album in lockdown, the Jets said: “As the world ground to a halt, with global lockdowns and illnesses, we continued to protest from our homes: recording lo-fi live covers of nine timeless tracks spanning the last half-century.
“Songs tackling perennial issues from discrimination and homelessness to war, consumer capitalism and environmental destruction.”
‘A Billion Heartbeats’ was given a four-star review from NME, which read in part: “With protest songs and celebrations of the NHS all part of their new identity, it’s a wildly successful take on the world at large as the band enter a new decade.”
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