Clairo Tour 2026

Inside Clairo

Clairo is the project name Claire Cottrill releases music under — the Atlanta-born, Massachusetts-raised singer and songwriter who turned a bedroom-recorded webcam clip into one of the defining indie-pop arcs of the late 2010s and has spent the years since deliberately walking the project away from the algorithm that broke her. The pivot point was Pretty Girl, a single-take song-and-shoot uploaded to YouTube in August 2017 — a fixed laptop frame, a Casio keyboard, Cottrill mouthing the lyrics half-asleep into the camera — which crossed tens of millions of views inside a few months without a label, a press cycle, or a publicist anywhere in the room. The success arrived alongside the bedroom-pop micro-genre it helped name, and the immediate online discourse turned on whether the breakthrough was organic (her father is a marketing executive, which surfaced in a since-litigated round of industry-plant accusations) — a conversation the project has navigated by leaning harder into the actual songwriting and away from the lo-fi webcam aesthetic that defined the launch. Immunity, the 2019 debut album produced with Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, was the first deliberate step: an actual studio record built on chamber-pop arrangements, a string section in places, songs about a high-school illness and a same-sex first relationship. Sling in 2021, produced with Jack Antonoff at his Allaire studio in upstate New York, pulled the project further toward soft-rock and singer-songwriter territory — fingerpicked acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer, a Carole King and Carpenters-adjacent 1970s palette, no obvious singles, the words 'quiet' and 'still' running through every contemporary review. Charm in 2024, produced with El Michels Affair's Leon Michels, swung back toward groove and toward the kind of soul-jazz late-night-AM-radio palette that the previous record had only flirted with — analog synths, Rhodes, brushed drums, the song Sexy to Someone as the closest thing to a single. The current touring footprint sits firmly in the theater and amphitheater tier — the Beacon Theatre, the Greek in Berkeley, the Roundhouse in London, festival main-stage slots on the indie circuit rather than top-of-bill arena dates — and the live show is built on a full backing band reading carefully from charts rather than the laptop-and-loop setup the bedroom-pop era trained audiences to expect. This page is the working guide to who Clairo is, what the current touring cycle looks like in practice, how tickets actually clear in the theater-tier markets she anchors on, and which cities keep coming up on the routing.

About Clairo

Claire Elizabeth Cottrill was born August 18, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the northwestern suburbs of Boston. Her father is Geoff Cottrill, a former chief marketing officer at Converse and Music Choice; her mother, Allison Cottrill, works in fashion. The family environment was musical in the working-day sense — instruments in the house, a father with industry contacts, a willingness to encourage demos — and Claire started uploading lo-fi bedroom recordings to Bandcamp and SoundCloud under the name Clairo as early as 2014, when she was in middle school. The pivot song was Pretty Girl, recorded on a Casio keyboard and a webcam in August 2017 while she was a senior in high school, uploaded to YouTube as a single fixed-frame video with no edits and no production, and shared on a few aggregation accounts that picked up the clip the same week. Inside three months the video had crossed ten million views; inside six it was twenty million; by the time Cottrill arrived at Syracuse University for her freshman year in autumn 2017, a video clip recorded for fun had become the project's commercial launch. Label conversations followed almost immediately — she signed with Fader Label, the indie imprint attached to the Fader magazine and its A&R network, on terms that preserved the bedroom-recording workflow that had produced Pretty Girl in the first place. The Diary 001 EP in 2018 collected Flaming Hot Cheetos, Hello?, 4Ever and the early Bandcamp catalogue, and a touring band assembled around her for the first time. Immunity, the debut studio album, arrived in August 2019 — produced by Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) at his Los Angeles studio, recorded over a stretch of months with Danielle Haim on drums on several tracks, and built on real chamber-pop arrangements rather than the bedroom-pop palette of the EP. The single Bags became the project's defining song on streaming and on critic year-end lists; the album was reviewed warmly across Pitchfork, NME, and the major weeklies, and the touring footprint that followed pushed the project from the 500-cap club tier into the 1,500-to-2,500-cap mid-size theater tier inside a year. Sling, the second album, arrived in July 2021 — produced this time by Jack Antonoff at his Allaire studio in the Catskills with Cottrill co-writing and co-producing every track, pulling the project further toward acoustic singer-songwriter and 1970s soft-rock palettes. The record carried no obvious single, was reviewed as a deliberate retreat from the streaming economy, and pushed the touring tier into 3,000-to-5,000-cap theaters (Radio City Music Hall, the Greek in Berkeley, the Beacon Theatre) on the supporting tour. Charm, the third album, arrived in July 2024 — produced with Leon Michels of El Michels Affair, the New York-based instrumentalist behind the Daptone soul-funk reissue circle, and pulled the project toward a Rhodes-and-analog-synth late-1970s soul-jazz palette with Sexy to Someone as the closest thing to a radio single and Juna as the album-cycle's mid-set breakout. She remains signed to Fader Label in the United States and to Pop Wig and similar indie partners in international territories, remains based in New York City, and continues to operate the project with a long-time core band — keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, occasional horn player — that has played most of the touring cycles since Immunity.

Clairo tour

Clairo's current touring footprint sits firmly in the theater and amphitheater tier rather than the arena cycle the album cycle's most recognisable singles might suggest — the project's deliberate move away from the algorithmic-singles economy on Sling and Charm has been mirrored by a deliberate booking strategy that keeps the rooms small enough for the negative-space passages of the live set to actually land. North American legs anchor on the Beacon Theatre and Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Greek Theatre in Berkeley and the Hollywood Palladium or Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, the Salt Shed and the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, the Fillmore in Philadelphia, Roadrunner or Citizens House of Blues in Boston, and the Massey Hall and History venue in Toronto. UK and European legs route through the Roundhouse in London, Manchester's Apollo, Glasgow's Barrowland or O2 Academy, the Olympia in Paris, and Berlin's Tempodrom or Columbiahalle. The production is deliberately modest by current touring standards: a single end-stage configuration, a backing band of four to six players including keys, guitar, bass, drums, and occasional horns or strings, restrained lighting (cooler colour temperatures, long held looks, no LED wall), and no choreography or dance break. A typical headline set runs 75 to 95 minutes across 16 to 20 songs with a single support act warming the room — recent touring cycles have used Oscar Lang, Hanni El Khatib, and similar mid-cap indie and singer-songwriter artists for the slot. Doors are typically 7 p.m., support around 8, Clairo on stage around 9. Festival slots on the Pitchfork, Primavera, Glastonbury Park stage, Coachella second-stage, and Lollapalooza indie-side circuit have anchored the summer routing across multiple cycles. The live event listings above this block are the working calendar — filter by city or date for current on-sale status.

Clairo tickets

Clairo tickets are sold primarily through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets, or DICE depending on the venue — the project tours through a mix of corporate-promoter buildings (Live Nation and AEG amphitheaters and theaters) and independent rooms (Bowery Presents in New York and Boston, JAM Productions in Chicago, the Mercury Lounge and Brooklyn Steel for the smaller dates earlier in cycles). Face value across the theater-tier cycle has typically run from a rough US$45 to US$60 for upper-balcony reserved up to US$95 to US$150 for floor and lower-balcony premium, with the Beacon Theatre, Radio City, and the Greek Theatre carrying slightly higher bands than the mid-tier rooms. The cycle does not sell a formal artist meet-and-greet package — the closest equivalent is the floor-section general-admission allocation in the venues that sell GA standing on the floor, which puts holders against the front rail of the audience and inside the artist's eyeline for the headline set. Resale policy varies by venue rather than by artist: Ticketmaster and AXS dates typically allow Verified Resale or Official Resale at uncapped price points, DICE-promoted dates use a fan-to-fan resale at face value plus the original booking fee, and independent venues vary. The Pretty Girl-era audience that broke the project on streaming is now in their twenties, the audience that came to Sling and Charm skews older and quieter, and the theater-tier rooms reliably hold the listening-room culture the project has cultivated since 2021. Demand on the Charm cycle has cleared the marquee multi-night theater runs (Beacon, Radio City, Greek Berkeley) before secondary inventory has caught up; the smaller rooms in the cycle's smaller markets typically clear inside a few days of the public on-sale.

Clairo UK tour

The UK leg of the current Clairo touring cycle anchors on the country's theater-tier indie circuit rather than the arena circuit a streaming-numbers-only view of the project might suggest: the Roundhouse in London (3,300 cap, Camden) for the marquee multi-night residency, the O2 Apollo Manchester (3,500 cap, Ardwick Green) and the Albert Hall Manchester (2,300 cap, Peter Street) for the northern stop, the O2 Academy Glasgow (2,500 cap, Eglinton Street) or the Barrowland Ballroom (1,900 cap, Gallowgate) for the Scottish date, the O2 Academy Birmingham (3,000 cap, Bristol Street) for the Midlands anchor, and 3Olympia Dublin or the Olympia Theatre Dublin (1,200 cap) where the routing extends through Ireland. UK onsales route through Ticketmaster UK, AXS, See Tickets, or DICE depending on the building, with the Clairo mailing-list presale a day or two ahead of the public window. The cycle does not run a Verified Fan-style anti-bot gate the way the major arena cycles do — UK presale is correspondingly simpler — and there is no formal VIP or meet-and-greet tier sold on any of the UK dates. Demand on the Charm cycle has cleared the marquee Roundhouse multi-night runs before secondary inventory has caught up; the smaller-market UK dates typically clear inside a few days of the public on-sale. The set runs the same 75-to-95-minute, 16-to-20-song shape on the UK dates as on the North American legs, with the same band, the same end-stage production, and the same setlist structure. Check the live event strip above for the active UK dates and current on-sale status.

Clairo setlist

A Clairo headline set on the current touring cycle runs roughly 75 to 95 minutes and pulls evenly from all three studio albums plus the Diary 001 EP rather than front-loading a singles run. The opening typically pulls from Charm — the show often opens on Nomad or Sexy to Someone with the full band locked in from the cold open, before moving through Add Up My Love and the Charm-cycle material that the live band reads carefully from charts. The middle act of the set pulls deeper from Sling — Blouse, Amoeba, and Zinnias as the acoustic singer-songwriter passages that drop the band down to a quieter palette and lean on Cottrill's voice and a fingerpicked guitar — and from the Immunity catalogue, with Bags as the recognisable mid-set singalong that has been the project's signature live song since 2019 and Sofia as the same-sex relationship anthem that has held its emotional weight across every touring cycle. The closing act of the set typically pulls forward the heavier-tempo Charm cuts and the EP-era catalogue — Flaming Hot Cheetos and 4Ever as the older audience-facing call-backs, Pretty Girl on the dates where the room expects it (the song is still played on most cycles even though Cottrill has been publicly ambivalent about it for years). The encore is short — typically two songs, anchored on a stripped solo acoustic moment and a full-band closer. Exact running order shifts night to night; setlist.fm tracks each show after the fact.

Clairo meet and greet and VIP

Clairo does not sell traditional artist meet-and-greet packages on the current touring cycle. There is no commercial handshake-and-photo-with-Claire tier available through Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, the artist's mailing list, or any third-party reseller — the project's broader positioning on the theater-tier indie circuit has consistently been to skip the VIP-package economy that the major arena tours run, and the touring cycles since Sling have not added any artist meet-and-greet tier. The closest equivalent is the floor-section general-admission standing allocation in the venues that sell GA on the floor (the Roundhouse, the Salt Shed, the Hollywood Palladium, the History venue), which puts holders against the front rail of the audience and inside the artist's eyeline for the duration of the headline set; the GA floor is sold through the standard on-sale rather than as a separate VIP package. Any third-party listing advertising a 'Clairo meet and greet' should be treated as a scam — no such package exists through official channels.

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