Putting The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Psychedelic Furs on the same bill is an easy sell, bringing together two bands whose post-punk and noise-pop playbooks helped establish much of modern guitar music. The two groups will reconvene for a joint run in January 2027, taking an eight-date co-headline tour through British halls and academies.
The schedule kicks off in Yorkshire on January 19 at the Leeds O2 Academy, before crossing the Scottish border for dates at Edinburgh Usher Hall on January 20 and the Glasgow O2 Academy on January 22. From Scotland, the tour works its way south, stopping at Manchester Academy on January 23, the Bristol Beacon on January 25, and Birmingham O2 Academy on January 26. The run wraps up in the south with a stop at Brighton Dome on January 28, followed by a final night in London at the British Airways ARC on January 29.
Tickets for the tour go on general sale at 10am BST on Friday, September 25. Fans looking to secure admission early can access a dedicated pre-sale running from 10am BST the previous morning, on Thursday, September 24.
This is not the first time the two bands have pooled their audiences. In 2024, they mounted a co-headlining tour that took them across the United States. Things have not been entirely plain sailing for The Psychedelic Furs since that trek. Over the summer, the band had to pull out of a run of American shows after a serious medical situation struck someone in their lineup. Currently, their itinerary lists only one live date before this 2027 British run, a performance on November 14 at California's Darker Waves Festival. Away from touring, the group recently re-entered the pop cultural conversation after their signature hit, Pretty In Pink, featured in The Crawl, the opening episode of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things on Netflix.
The Jesus And Mary Chain arrive at this partnership in a steady phase of activity. March 2024 brought the release of Glasgow Eyes, their eighth studio album. That record found frontman Jim Reid considering the group's legacy and observing how their particular sonic blueprint continues to leave a mark on newer generations of songwriters.
His brother, guitarist William Reid, generated his own headlines around the release by speaking candidly about his disdain for fretboard pyrotechnics. In an unvarnished assessment of modern rock guitar, he argued that Eddie Van Halen ruined the instrument throughout the eighties and nineties by inspiring legions of technicians who prized speed above feeling. William noted that young players would do well to avoid practicing scales altogether, explaining that he always found far more substance and value in Peter Hook's straightforward bass lines than in bursts of frantic technical display.
Come January 2027, British audiences will see both bands bring those distinct principles back to the stage, trading big hooks and wall-of-noise arrangements over eight winter nights.
