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Arlo Parks announces 2026 ‘Desire’ tour in UK, Europe and North America
Music News•March 6, 2026 at 8:56 AMNational

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

By Tom Skinner•NME Music News

"Let's laugh, cry and move our bodies" The post Arlo Parks announces 2026 ‘Desire’ tour in UK, Europe and North America appeared first on NME.

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

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 next month – 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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