Conan Gray Tour 2026

Inside Conan Gray

Conan Gray is the Californian-born, Texas-raised pop singer and songwriter who turned a homemade YouTube vlog channel into one of the most distinct and durable alt-pop projects of the streaming era — a project whose entire arc, from the bedroom-acoustic Idle Town demo in 2017 through the synth-pop pivot of Found Heaven in 2024, has been built on the same diaristic, queer-coded, chorus-forward songwriting voice that resonated with millions of listeners before he ever had a record deal. He started uploading to YouTube around 2013 as a teenager in the small town of Georgetown, Texas, posting vlogs about high school, songwriting tutorials, and acoustic covers; by the time Idle Town reached a critical mass of plays in early 2017, he had already developed a global online audience that arrived at his Republic Records signing intact.

The debut EP Sunset Season in 2018 collected the early bedroom material into a polished release; Kid Krow in 2020 made him a streaming-era pop fixture on the back of Heather — the slow-burn TikTok ballad that became one of the defining queer-coded breakup songs of the early 2020s; Superache in 2022 expanded the palette into bigger anthemic productions on Memories, Disaster, and Yours; and Found Heaven in 2024 pushed the project into full synth-pop and 1980s-leaning Hi-NRG territory with a Greg Kurstin co-production credit, a deliberate sonic pivot that polarised the existing fanbase while attracting an entirely new one. The live operation has scaled in step: from intimate theatre dates on the Kid Krow promotional cycle, through mid-cap amphitheatre and ballroom rooms on Superache, into proper amphitheatre and arena-tier headline rooms on the Found Heaven World Tour.

The voice is conversational, sometimes whispered, sometimes belted; the writing is direct, often autobiographical, unafraid of small-town imagery and explicit emotional admissions; and the audience — heavily Gen Z, heavily queer-friendly, heavily online — brings the kind of word-perfect singalong volume that turns the quietest ballad into the loudest moment of the night. This page is the working guide to who Conan Gray is, what a current touring cycle show looks like in practice, how the ticketing works across markets, and which cities keep coming up on the routing.

About Conan Gray

Conan Lee Gray was born December 5, 1998, in Lemon Grove, California, to a mixed Irish-American and Japanese-American family, and moved frequently as a child — between California, Hiroshima in Japan, and eventually Georgetown, Texas, where he settled through middle school and high school. The small-town Texas years became the autobiographical bedrock of his songwriting: the suburban malls, the quiet streets, the feeling of being a queer teenager in a conservative community that he would later draw on directly in Crush Culture, Idle Town, and the broader Sunset Season aesthetic.

He started a YouTube channel in 2013, initially uploading vlogs and acoustic covers, gradually shifting toward original songwriting as his audience grew. The pivot point was Idle Town, a self-produced acoustic track he uploaded to YouTube and SoundCloud in March 2017 while he was still in high school; the song accumulated millions of plays inside the year and brought major-label attention from Republic Records, which signed him in 2018 ahead of his enrolment at UCLA.

He attended UCLA briefly before pausing his studies to focus on music full-time. The Sunset Season EP arrived in November 2018 and collected the early YouTube-era material — Idle Town, Generation Why, Crush Culture, Greek God — into a polished six-song release that worked as a thesis statement for the project: bedroom-acoustic core, slick pop production around the edges, queer-coded longing throughout.

Kid Krow, his full-length debut, arrived in March 2020 — the same week the world went into pandemic lockdown — and became one of the era's defining streaming-pop releases on the back of Heather, the third single, which slow-burned through 2020 into a TikTok-driven viral moment that pushed it onto the Billboard Hot 100 and made it one of the most-streamed pop songs of the year. Maniac, the album opener, lifted the cycle into pop-radio territory; the record itself debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, the highest debut for a male artist's first full-length on Republic in over a decade.

Superache in June 2022 pushed the project into bigger productions and more anthemic choruses — Memories worked as the lead single, Disaster and Yours filled out the streaming-pop singles run, and the album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200. The Superache World Tour ran across 2022 and 2023, scaling from clubs and ballrooms into proper theatre and amphitheatre rooms.

Found Heaven in April 2024 represented the most significant sonic pivot of his career: a full synth-pop and 1980s-leaning record co-produced with Greg Kurstin (the Adele and Sia collaborator), pulling from Cyndi Lauper, the Cure, and the broader 1980s Hi-NRG and new-wave palette. Lonely Dancers, Never Ending Song, and the title track Found Heaven worked as the album's defining singles.

The Found Heaven World Tour scaled the live operation into amphitheatre and arena-tier rooms across North America, the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He remains Republic Records, remains publicly out as queer (he came out in interviews around the Superache cycle, though his songwriting had always read as queer-coded to the audience that arrived early), and remains based in Los Angeles.

He is also a published novelist — his debut Y/A novel arrived in 2024 alongside the Found Heaven album cycle.

Conan Gray Tour

The current Conan Gray touring cycle is built around the Found Heaven World Tour, the headline run supporting his fourth studio album Found Heaven, and is structured as an amphitheatre and arena-tier global routing with select theatre dates retained for smaller markets where the larger building does not exist or does not clear at the current scale. North American legs anchor on rooms like Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Greek Theatre and the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, the Roadrunner in Boston, History in Toronto, and the Showbox SoDo and Paramount in Seattle, with proper amphitheatre upgrades — Forest Hills Stadium in New York, the Greek Theatre's full capacity in LA — added on routings where demand has cleared multiple ballroom dates faster than the building could absorb.

UK and European legs route through the Eventim Apollo and the O2 Academy Brixton in London, the O2 Apollo Manchester, Eventim Olympia in Liverpool, the O2 Academy Birmingham, the O2 Academy Glasgow, and the equivalent mid-cap rooms across the continent — L'Olympia in Paris, the Columbiahalle in Berlin, the AFAS Live in Amsterdam, the Forum in Copenhagen. The production on the Found Heaven cycle is built around the 1980s synth-pop aesthetic of the record: neon-pink and deep-purple lighting states, an angular minimalist stage set that the touring designer has called the 'heaven gate' (a central proscenium arch that the lighting rig builds in and out of across the set), a live band that pulls from the synth-pop palette of the studio record without simply triggering tracks, and a costume cycle that has run through 1980s-leaning silhouettes — leather, lace, the occasional sequinned suit — that he has worn since the album's roll-out cycle.

A typical headline set runs 95 to 115 minutes across 20 to 24 songs with one or two support acts warming the room — recent Found Heaven cycle openers have included Maisie Peters, Hemlocke Springs, and similar mid-cap alt-pop artists. Doors are typically 7 p.m., support around 8, Conan on stage around 9.

The live event listings above this block are the working calendar — filter by city or date for current on-sale status.

Conan Gray tickets

Found Heaven World Tour tickets sell primarily through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets, and Eventim depending on the market and venue, with a structured on-sale model that typically opens with an artist presale (registered through conangray.com), then a Ticketmaster Verified Fan or AXS Premium presale where the market supports it, then a final public window. Face value across the Found Heaven cycle has typically run from a rough US$45 to US$70 for upper-tier and rear-floor general admission on the smaller theatre dates up to US$120 to US$200 for the front-of-floor and premium-reserved seating on amphitheatre and arena-tier dates, with the European and UK legs broadly comparable in local-currency terms.

Conan Gray VIP packages have been offered on every recent tour through Future Beat, the artist-VIP experience operator that handles the Conan Gray cycles: the standard package tiers typically include early venue entry, a pre-show soundcheck experience or VIP lounge access depending on the date, an exclusive tour merch print or signed item, an exclusive tote bag, and on the upper tier a photo opportunity with Conan in some markets — exact tier composition varies by date and is detailed on the Future Beat or Ticketmaster product page for each show. Resale policy varies by market: most UK and European dates are sold under restricted-resale rules with Ticketmaster's Verified Resale or AXS Official Resale the only sanctioned secondary channel and uncapped third-party listings not guaranteed entry at the venue door, while North American dates run a mix of capped and uncapped resale depending on the venue's house policy.

The live event strip above this block links directly to the current on-sale window for each date.

Conan Gray UK tour

The UK leg of the Found Heaven World Tour anchors on the country's full theatre and mid-cap arena circuit: the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith (5,000 cap, west London) and O2 Academy Brixton (4,900 cap, south London) for the London anchor, the O2 Apollo Manchester (3,500 cap, Ardwick Green) for the northern stop, the O2 Academy Birmingham (3,000 cap, Bristol Street) for the Midlands date, the O2 Academy Glasgow (2,500 cap, Eglinton Street) for the Scottish stop, and the equivalent mid-cap rooms across the Celtic markets (the 3Olympia in Dublin or the Olympia Theatre on routings that extend through Ireland). UK onsales route through Ticketmaster UK, See Tickets, or AXS depending on the venue, with the official conangray.com artist presale a day or two ahead of the public window — the Future Beat VIP packages open inside the artist presale window where they apply, and Spotify presale partnerships have appeared on selected dates of the cycle.

Demand at the UK on-sale routinely clears multi-night Apollo and Brixton runs within hours; the resale rules vary by venue but Ticketmaster's Verified Resale and AXS Official Resale are the sanctioned secondary channels on most London dates, with uncapped third-party listings (Viagogo, StubHub) not guaranteed entry at the door. Set construction, sustainability spec, and 95-to-115-minute runtime are consistent across the UK dates — the production is the same room by room, scaled to the building.

Check the live event strip above for the active UK dates and current on-sale status.

Conan Gray setlist

A Found Heaven World Tour set typically runs 95 to 115 minutes across 20 to 24 songs and follows a three-act arc rather than a front-loaded singles run. The opening act pulls heavily from the new record's synth-pop palette — recent shows have opened on Found Heaven, the title track, with the full neon-pink lighting state and the band locked into the four-on-the-floor pulse the studio record runs on, before moving through Never Ending Song with its Cyndi Lauper-adjacent chorus and Lonely Dancers with the song's mid-tempo synth-pop hook.

The opening run typically pulls one or two Superache singles — Memories, Disaster — to bridge the new record into the cycle's most-streamed catalogue. The middle act stripped down through a piano-and-vocal or acoustic-guitar segment that has been a recurring structural element across his touring cycles: Conan typically moves to a piano or sits with an acoustic guitar for two to four songs from across the catalogue, the lighting drops to a single warm spotlight, and the room genuinely hushes for the quieter ballad material.

The acoustic middle has typically included The Story (the Kid Krow closer), Family Line (the autobiographical Superache ballad about his absent father that became one of the most emotionally resonant moments of the Superache cycle), and a rotating audible slot pulled from the deeper catalogue (Greek God, Crush Culture, Affluenza, Best Friend) chosen night by night. The closing act builds back up through the cycle's biggest singalongs: Maniac, the Kid Krow opener that has become a defining live moment for the project; Yours, the Superache mid-tempo ballad that pulls the loudest singalong of the night; and Heather, the Kid Krow third single that became the defining queer-coded breakup song of the early 2020s — typically deployed as the second-to-last song of the main set with the entire room singing every word back at him, a moment that crosses generational lines in the audience and has become the structural emotional climax of any Conan Gray live show.

The closing-act run typically also includes People Watching from Superache, Boys & Girls from Kid Krow, and a rotating Found Heaven album cut. The encore on the Found Heaven cycle has typically been built around the title track returning as the finale or the Lonely Dancers four-on-the-floor outro lifting the room into the curfew, with the production's biggest lighting moment landing on the final chorus.

Exact running order shifts night to night within those three acts; setlist.fm tracks each show after the fact.

Conan Gray meet and greet and VIP

Conan Gray VIP and meet-and-greet packages on the Found Heaven World Tour run through Future Beat, the artist-VIP experience operator that handles the Conan Gray touring cycles. Package composition has varied by date and tier across the cycle, but the standard structure has typically included tiers like an Early Entry tier (early venue access ahead of general admission doors), a VIP Lounge tier (early entry plus access to a dedicated pre-show lounge with light refreshments, an exclusive tour merch item or print, and an exclusive tote bag), and on select dates an Ultimate tier that has occasionally included a pre-show soundcheck experience or a group photo opportunity with Conan — exact tier composition varies by date and is detailed on the Future Beat or Ticketmaster product page for each show.

Traditional one-on-one paid meet-and-greet packages with extended hangout time are not typically offered on the Conan Gray cycle; the VIP structure is built around early access, exclusive items, and where applicable a group photo experience rather than a private handshake-and-photo format. Any third-party listing advertising a private one-on-one Conan Gray meet-and-greet outside of the Future Beat or official tour-page channels should be treated with caution — verify the listing against the official Future Beat or Ticketmaster product page for the specific tour date before purchasing.

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