Muse are locking in their outdoor summer plans well ahead of schedule. The Devon trio have confirmed two major open air headline slots in England for June 2027, taking over London before traveling north to Yorkshire the following evening. The announcement arrives just as the group prepare for another trek across European arenas, offering an early glimpse at what will become a busy festival calendar on the continent.
The London date takes place at Hyde Park on Saturday, June 26, as part of the long running British Summer Time concert series. Joining them in the capital will be Nothing But Thieves and Chvrches. The following night, Sunday, June 27, Muse relocate to Leeds to top the bill at Roundhay Festival, with Nothing But Thieves once again booked as direct support. Promoters plan to announce further additions to both lineups in the coming months. Those after tickets face a tiered rollout, with every window opening at 10am. An American Express pre-sale leads off on Monday, November 9, followed by an artist pre-sale on Wednesday, November 11. An AEG pre-sale opens on Thursday, November 12, ahead of the general public release on Friday, November 13.
With their Hyde Park appearance locked in, Muse join a 2027 BST roster that already includes Bon Jovi and RAYE. The placement of the two dates also creates an intriguing puzzle for festival watchers, as they land directly across the final weekend of June, the slot traditionally claimed by Glastonbury. With Muse occupied in central London on Saturday and Roundhay on Sunday, any potential return to Worthy Farm for a third headline performance could only happen on Friday, June 25. That Somerset gathering has already stirred plenty of discussion, with names such as Sam Fender, Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Fontaines D.C., The Rolling Stones, and Taylor Swift linked to the weekend.
The supporting acts reflect long standing relationships. Nothing But Thieves know the band's crowd well, having handled opening duties across the UK arena run for the Simulation Theory tour in 2019. The admiration for Chvrches goes back nearly as far. In 2015, Muse stopped by the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and turned in a surprising cover of the Scottish trio's early single Lies. On recent tours, the band have also made Chvrches' track Clearest Blue their official prelude, blasting it through the sound system as the final piece of house music before stepping out under the lights.
The outdoor dates arrive on the heels of Muse's tenth studio album, The Wow! Signal, which landed in June and sparked an extensive run of North American arena dates. The record borrowed its name from the famous 1977 astronomical detection, when researchers captured a puzzling 72 second radio burst originating from the constellation Sagittarius. The sheer power and tight frequency of the transmission fueled decades of debate about possible alien life. Bellamy used that cosmic backdrop to write about more intimate topics, later noting that working through the material helped him reconnect with an essential creative impulse he could not live without.
Before those open fields beckon in 2027, Muse will launch their European arena dates in Manchester on Thursday, November 12. As always, the stage production is aimed at excess. Bellamy revealed that the design team investigated building a real spaceship for the staging, alongside laser technology that has never been attempted during a concert. Those ambitions ran into financial reality when initial price quotes for an actual working vessel surpassed the cost of buying property in London's wealthy Primrose Hill district. Bellamy conceded that the ship might stay firmly grounded, though the group still intend to push the science fiction aesthetic as hard as possible.
Translating heavy visual production to outdoor park settings brings distinct staging challenges, but Muse have spent more than twenty years figuring out how to project strange, high concept ideas to huge festival crowds. Moving from indoor venues this winter to the open lawns of Hyde Park and Roundhay will test just how far that extraterrestrial production can go.
