Interpol and Bloc Party have kicked off their huge co-headline tour with an opening night in Berlin. Check out footage and both setlists from the gig below.
The two indie stars announced late last year that they would be hitting the road for a massive 2026 European co-headline tour. They previously toured the UK together in 2004, and co-headlined a series of shows in Australia in 2023.
Both of them broke through in the ’00s and these gigs see the two bands celebrating over 20 years in the industry. Bloc Party promised tracks from their seminal 2005 debut ‘Silent Alarm’, while Interpol’s setlist was said to feature songs from their landmark second record ‘Antics’ (2004).
Dates kicked off last night (Wednesday November 11) at the Uber Arena in Berlin, and Interpol launched their 15-song setlist with the title track from their 2026 album ‘This Mirror Weighs a Ton’.
Five more songs from the new LP made their way into the setlist, including ‘Bird and the Serpent’, ‘Iron City’, ‘See Out Loud’, and ‘Wings on Fire’, and ‘Antics’ cuts included ‘C’mere’, ‘Evil’ and ‘Slow Hands’.
Interpol’s setlist was:
‘This Mirror Weighs a Ton’
‘C’mere’
‘No I in Threesome’
‘All the Rage Back Home’
‘Rest My Chemistry’
‘See Out Loud’
‘Wings on Fire’
‘NYC’
‘Wounded Soldier’
‘Evil’
‘The New’
‘Iron City’
‘Bird and the Serpent’
‘PDA’
‘Slow Hands’
For Bloc Party, they also played five tracks from their new album ‘Anatomy Of A Brief Romance’, opening with ‘22.01.22’ before breaking out ‘Lagoon Blue’, ‘Love Bombs’, ‘Moving On’, and ‘Now We Can’t Be Friends’.
Classic tracks from ‘Silent Alarm’ included ‘Banquet’, ‘Helicopter’, ‘Positive Tension’, and ‘This Modern Love’, and other songs included ‘Alpha Games’’ ‘Traps’, ‘Four’s ‘So He Begins to Lie’, and ‘Hymns’ ‘The Love Within’ were also played.
Bloc Party’s setlist was:
‘22.01.22’
‘Love Bombs’
‘Mercury’
‘So He Begins to Lie’
‘Song for Clay (Disappear Here)’
‘Banquet’
‘Traps’
‘Now We Can’t Be Friends’
‘Hunting for Witches’
‘Positive Tension’
‘Lagoon Blue’
‘The Love Within’
‘Moving On’
‘Helicopter’
‘Flux’
‘This Modern Love’
‘Ratchet’
Fans have also been quick to praise the shows too, with one fan calling Interpol’s set “an absolutely mind-blowing light show”.
“ The atmosphere, the beams, the shadows, the precision, the way every light hits with the music… pure visual perfection,” they wrote. “Huge respect to [Ed Warren] and @christian_lights_bands for creating and bringing this stunning visual experience to life. You made the lights an instrument of their own. Absolutely phenomenal work.”
Another shared: “Interpol made an early Christmas yesterday by playing all my hoped for songs of their new record… Atmosperic tunes, amazing light, maybe a bit sleepy audience at that part of the gig – Bloc Party could move more feet afterwards. But I was so happy to finally hear the new songs live – hopefully more soon .”
Check out more reactions to both Interpol and Bloc Party below.
Dates continue tonight (Thursday November 12) in Hamburg, before more shows in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and more throughout the month. A UK leg of shows also kick off later this month, including shows in Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Brighton and Sheffield.
The tour wraps up with one show at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on December 2. Originally the tour was set to end with two shows at London’s Olympia on December 4 and 5, but these – as well as gigs from Jamie T and Royal Blood – had to be moved or cancelled due to “unforeseen planning issues” at the venue.
Interpol have since announced a more intimate replacement show, playing just the one date at the 3,800-capacity British Airways Arc at Olympia on Friday December 4. They will be playing without Bloc Party.
In a four-and-a-half star review of Interpol’s ‘This Mirror Weighs A Tonne’, NME hailed it as “the whole journey of Interpol’s sonic past, present and future laid out, marking their most unified yet experimental effort in years and arguably their most consistent and satisfying since ‘Antics’.”
Speaking to NME about the new album, frontman Paul Banks said the high energy rock-leaning vibe came as a reaction to predecessor ‘The Other Side Of Make-Believe‘ being written in isolation during the pandemic.
As for Bloc Party, the indie band released a 20th anniversary reissue of ‘Silent Alarm’ last year, and celebrated the record on tour – including at a huge 2024 show in London’s Crystal Palace Park. They also received the Outstanding Song Collection award at the Ivors 2025. Earlier this week, frontman Kele Okerekespoke out about the racist and homophobic comments he has been receiving online, saying that he doesn’t think that “being visible” means that he should be “subject to abuse”.
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