Lily Allen announces first tour in seven years with 2026 ‘West End Girl’ UK shows

Lily Allen has announced her first tour in seven years with a long run of gigs celebrating her new album ‘West End Girl’ for March 2026. Check out dates and ticket details below.

• READ MORE: Lily Allen – ‘West End Girl’ review: a vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback

The ‘Smile’ star hasn’t toured since the shows in support of her album ‘No Shame’ back in 2018-2019, but later made headlines by appearing with Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury 2022 and returning to Worthy Farm for another surprise appearance with Shy FX this summer.

Now to celebrate new album ‘West End Girl’ being released last week (Friday October 24), Allen has revealed plans to play her acclaimed new record in order and in its entirety at a run of “specially-chosen” intimate theatre shows across the UK in March 2026 – culminating with two nights at London’s iconic Palladium.

See the full run of tour dates below, with tickets on sale from 10am on Friday November 7 and available here.

Lily Allen’s 2026 tour dates are:

March
2 – Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
3 – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
5 – Birmingham Symphony Hall
7 – Sheffield City Hall
8 – Newcastle O2 City Hall
10 – Manchester Aviva Studios, The Hall
11 – Manchester Aviva Studios, The Hall
14 – Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
15 – Cambridge Corn Exchange
17 – Bristol Beacon
18 – Cardiff New Theatre
20 – London Palladium
21 – London Palladium

‘West End Girl’ has received widespread acclaim, with NME hailing it as “a vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback” due to its cathartic journey back to peace following her divorce from Stranger Things actor David Harbour.

“Diving into the complexities of love and loss, the rumbling ‘Relapse’ is about living up to the expectations of others, joyfully funky ‘Nonmonogamummy’ tackles dating in your late thirties and the art of people pleasing, before ‘Beg For Me’ has Allen listing exactly what she needs from a relationship,” read the NME review.

“It leads into the determined, no-nonsense ‘Let You W/in’ and the smirking clarity of ‘Fruityloop’, which has her quoting her second album ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’. By the end of ‘West End Girl’, it’s clear the relationship in this tale might be over, but Lily Allen’s comeback is just getting started.”

While revealing that ‘West End Girl’ tackles her “deep-rooted issues with rejection and abandonment” after her split from Harbour due to his infidelity, Allen has spoken of how she believes that it is “not a cruel album”.

“I mean, I wrote this record in 10 days in December and I feel very differently about the whole situation now,” she told Interview. “We all go through breakups and it’s always fucking brutal. But I don’t think it’s that often that you feel inclined to write about it while you’re in it.”

She added: “That’s what’s fun about this record; it’s viscerally like going through the motions. At the time, I was really trying to process things and that’s great in terms of the album, but I don’t feel confused or angry now. I don’t need revenge.”

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