Indie-rock legends Ocean Colour Scene have announced a major UK tour for 2026, celebrating the 30th anniversary of their classic album Moseley Shoals.
The 13-date tour will start at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on 21st November and include further arena dates at Manchester’s AO Arena (28th Nov), the Utilita Arena Cardiff (4th Dec) and The O2, London (9th Dec), before a final night hometown show at Birmingham’s bp pulse LIVE (12th Dec).
Joining Ocean Colour Scene as the tour’s very special guests will be The Enemy.
An artist pre-sale will begin at 9.00am on Wednesday 15th October, followed by a venue pre-sale from 9.00am on Thursday 16th, before tickets go on general sale at 9.00am on Friday 17th October, available from the venues and via www.oceancolourscene.com.
Released in April 1996, at the height of the Britpop era, Moseley Shoals was Ocean Colour Scene’s second album, and immediately became a huge success.
Formed in Birmingham in 1989, Ocean Colour Scene began crafting songs in the spirit of the soul, folk and blues greats who inspired them, with words and melodies that would soon chime with the hearts and minds of the group’s fiercely loyal fanbase.
After a few years honing their sound, Ocean Colour Scene became a household name with the release of ‘Moseley Shoals’, which was quickly followed by the Top 10 albums ‘Marchin’ Already’ (1997), ‘One From The Modern’ (1999) and ‘Mechanical Drift’ (2001).
Enjoying an incredible run of seventeen Top 40 singles – which included nine successive Top 20 singles – Ocean Colour Scene are not only one of the UK’s most successful groups, they are also renowned as one of the country’s very best live bands.
The tour’s very special guests The Enemy formed in Coventry in 2006, and saw their debut album ‘We’ll Live and Die in These Towns’ go straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart in 2007. The album also included the hit singles ‘Away From Here’, ‘Had Enough’ and ‘You’re Not Alone’, in addition to the album’s title track.
This was followed by 2009’s ‘Music for The People’, which reached number 2 on the UK albums chart, and 2012’s ‘Streets In The Sky’, which climbed to number 4.
The full list of dates for Ocean Colour Scene’s UK tour in 2026 is as follows:
21 November – Glasgow OVO Hydro
27 November – Bradford Live
28 November – Manchester AO Arena
30 November – Newcastle O2 City Hall
01 December – Derby Vaillant Live
03 December – Swansea Building Society Arena
04 December – Cardiff Utilita Arena
05 December – Bournemouth International Centre
07 December – Plymouth Pavilions
08 December – Brighton Centre
09 December – London, The O2
11 December – Bristol Prospect Building
12 December – Birmingham bp pulse LIVE
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