The 1975 Tour 2026

Inside The 1975

The 1975 are the Cheshire four-piece who, two decades into a friendship that began at Wilmslow High School in the early 2000s, have quietly become one of the most stylistically restless and critically argued-about rock bands of their generation. Matty Healy, George Daniel, Adam Hann, and Ross MacDonald have not changed the lineup since they were teenagers cycling through names like Drive Like I Do, Talkhouse, The Slowdown, and Bigsleep before settling on The 1975 in 2012 and releasing their self-titled debut a year later. The band's catalogue is now five albums deep — the black-and-white art-pop debut The 1975 (2013), the sprawling pink-saturated maximalist I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016, UK number one), the genre-blender and Brit Album of the Year winner A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018), the 22-track lockdown-era sprawl Notes on a Conditional Form (2020), and the deliberately stripped-back, eighties-pop-leaning Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022). Across the run they have headlined Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury's Other Stage, Madison Square Garden, the O2 Arena in London on multiple nights, Latitude, the Coachella main stage, Lollapalooza, the Finsbury Park headline show, and a string of arena and festival runs across Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, and Latin America that have made them one of the rare British guitar bands to genuinely break the United States and Asian markets in the streaming era. The live show — saxophone-anchored, light-rig-heavy, deliberately theatrical, often built around a working set design that doubles as a domestic stage like the At Their Very Best house or the Still… At Their Very Best stripped runway — pairs Matty Healy's confessional and self-aware frontmanship with George Daniel's drum production, Adam Hann's guitar tone, and Ross MacDonald's bass to produce a stadium-scale catalogue night that ranges from the dance-pop of Love It If We Made It and It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) to the acoustic introspection of Be My Mistake and About You. The 1975 arrive in your city as the rare British rock band whose audience treats the show as both a singalong concert and a cultural event — and the band knows it.

About The 1975

The 1975 formed in Manchester in 2002 when a group of Wilmslow High School friends — Matty Healy, George Daniel, Adam Hann, and Ross MacDonald — started playing covers and writing original material together as 13- and 14-year-olds. Matty Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) is the son of actors Denise Welch and Tim Healy and was born in London in 1989 before the family moved to Cheshire; George Daniel (drums, production, backing vocals) was born in Belgium and grew up in Macclesfield; Adam Hann (lead guitar) and Ross MacDonald (bass) round out the four-piece. The band cycled through a string of working names — Drive Like I Do, Talkhouse, The Slowdown, Bigsleep, and a long stint as The Slowdown — before settling on The 1975 in 2012 after Healy found the date scribbled in the inside cover of a book of beat poetry. Their first official release was the four-track EP Facedown in August 2012, followed by Sex (the EP, October 2012), Music for Cars (March 2013), and IV (May 2013) before the self-titled debut album The 1975 landed on 2 September 2013 on Dirty Hit and Polydor and hit number one in the UK. The black-and-white visual identity, the pink-neon live rig, and the now-signature The 1975 box logo were established in this era and have evolved with every album since. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It arrived in February 2016 with the pink palette, the maximalist 17-track sprawl, and the UK and US number-one chart positions that confirmed the band as a serious arena proposition. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (November 2018) won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year, produced Love It If We Made It and It's Not Living (If It's Not With You), and became the catalogue album the band has built every subsequent setlist around. Notes on a Conditional Form (May 2020) ran 22 songs across 80 minutes during the lockdown era and pulled in Greta Thunberg, FKA twigs, and Phoebe Bridgers as collaborators. Being Funny in a Foreign Language (October 2022) was the deliberate reset — eleven tracks, a tighter eighties-pop reference frame, Jack Antonoff producing alongside George Daniel, and the lead single Part of the Band that opened the At Their Very Best touring cycle. Across the run The 1975 have sold millions of records worldwide, been nominated for and won Brit Awards and Ivor Novello Awards, headlined Reading and Leeds Festival in 2019 and again in subsequent years, played the Glastonbury Other Stage as a headline-grade fixture, and held the four-person lineup intact across every studio album and tour — a continuity almost no other British guitar band of their generation can claim.

Still… At Their Very Best and beyond

The 1975's touring cycle through the current era has been built around two related productions: At Their Very Best, the working-house stage design that ran across North America, the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia from late 2022 through 2023 in support of Being Funny in a Foreign Language; and Still… At Their Very Best, the stripped-down stadium and arena follow-up that pared back the house set to a long elevated runway and a more catalogue-focused set list. Both productions share the same visual DNA — warm tungsten lighting, deep saturated colour washes, a saxophone-led brass section, and Matty Healy's deliberately theatrical frontmanship that has included push-ups on stage, raw steak eating during a single televised performance, mid-set cigarette smoking, and long conversational asides that the band's audience treats as part of the show rather than an interruption. The set length has run consistently in the 95- to 115-minute range across the cycle, balancing Being Funny in a Foreign Language tracks with the now-canonical run of A Brief Inquiry material — Love It If We Made It, It's Not Living (If It's Not With You), Sincerity Is Scary, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME — and the self-titled debut singles Chocolate, Sex, The City, and Robbers that the audience has been singing back for over a decade. The 1975 tour as a guitar band first and a pop act second — there is a real rhythm section, Adam Hann's guitar tone is built around vintage Fenders and a wall of Vox AC30s, George Daniel plays a real kit, and the saxophone work from John Waugh is featured as a fifth voice rather than a backing accent. Doors typically open 90 minutes to two hours before showtime depending on the venue, with two support acts on the bill on most arena and stadium dates.

The 1975 tickets

The 1975 tickets are sold through Ticketmaster, AXS, See Tickets, and Dice in the UK and Ireland depending on the venue, through Ticketmaster and AXS in North America, and through regional primary partners in continental Europe, Australia, Japan, and Latin America. Pricing varies sharply by market and configuration: UK arena general admission floor tickets and standing pit tickets typically run £55–£90, seated tickets in the bowl £65–£120, and a small allocation of VIP packages with early entry, a soundcheck observation, and signed merchandise at £200 and up. North American arena pricing runs similarly — $55–$100 for upper-bowl seated tickets, $80–$150 for mid-bowl, $120–$220 for floor general admission, and VIP packages from $300. The 1975 have generally avoided Ticketmaster's dynamic 'Platinum' and 'In Demand' pricing models on UK on-sales, preferring fixed face-value tiers, though some North American dates have seen platinum-priced front-floor tickets. Dirty Hit fan-club presales open roughly a week before general on-sale and are the cleanest route to face-value tickets for in-demand cities. Verified resale routes — Ticketmaster Verified Resale, AXS Official Resale, Twickets in the UK, Dice's official ticket transfer — are the only resale channels worth using. Avoid generic search-ad ticket sites, Facebook Marketplace listings, and any seller demanding payment outside an escrowed marketplace; tickets bought outside verified channels are routinely cancelled at the gate when QR codes are duplicated or expired.

The 1975 setlist — what they play

The Still… At Their Very Best era setlist is a 20- to 23-song run that draws from all five studio albums but leans heaviest on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships and Being Funny in a Foreign Language while keeping the self-titled debut singles in the encore. Recent shows have opened with The 1975 — the rolling spoken-word piece that has bookended every album to date and serves as a deliberate scene-setter — into Looking for Somebody (To Love) and Happiness, the first two singles from Being Funny in a Foreign Language. The early-middle of the set typically rotates Chocolate, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME, The Sound, and a stripped-down run through Part of the Band that often features Matty Healy alone with an acoustic guitar at the front of the runway. The mid-set anchor is Love It If We Made It — the A Brief Inquiry centrepiece that the band has repeatedly described as their defining statement — followed by It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) and Somebody Else, two songs that the audience treats as the emotional core of any The 1975 show. The back half pulls in About You — the Being Funny standout that has become a generational sleeper hit — Sincerity Is Scary with the brass section pushed forward, Robbers from the debut with the full bowl singing the closing bridge, and a typical encore run of Sex into Give Yourself a Try into the closing one-two of Guys and People. Night-by-night variation is modest — usually limited to the acoustic runway slot and a rotating deep cut from Notes on a Conditional Form — but the band have occasionally pulled out rare debut-era tracks like Settle Down or fallinforyou for one-off appearances. Setlist.fm is the most reliable real-time source for confirming exactly what your specific date is playing.

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