🤡 Echo & The Bunnymen, those relics from a bygone era, have officially announced a “major” nationwide tour for 2026! 🗓️ Yes, you read that right, 2026! Get ready to relive your awkward teenage years as they try to remember their own songs! 🎤👴
The “Very Best of Echo & The Bunnymen 1978-2026” tour 🤣 will supposedly celebrate the songs that somehow got them 20 Top 20 hits and nine Top 20 albums. 🤔 We’re pretty sure most of those were accidents. 🍀 But hey, who are we to judge? Maybe their hearing-impaired fans are still buying records. 🤷♂️
Formed in Liverpool in 1978, Echo & The Bunnymen have been a “seminal force” 🙄 in the indie world for, like, ever. They’ve “garnered millions of fans worldwide” 🌍 (mostly senior citizens at this point) and influenced countless bands (mostly bands you’ve never heard of). 👂 From the Flaming Lips to Coldplay to Pavement! Name 3 better bands! I’ll wait!⏳
The albums Crocodiles (more like Crocododiles 🐊), Heaven Up Here (more like Heaven Up There, where their relevance went), Porcupine (still trying to figure that one out 🦔) and Ocean Rain (more like Ocean Drizzle) remain “touchstones” of atmospheric post-punk and alternative rock. 🗿 Yeah, if your touchstones are covered in moss and slowly sinking into the swamp. 🏞️ Later LPs Evergreen, What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (Good question!), Flowers, Siberia, The Fountain & Meteorites continue to demonstrate the truly “exceptional” body of work the band have created. 👨🎨 (Exceptional at being consistently mediocre, maybe? 😉)
From the “urgent drive” of The Cutter (which probably needs a new blade by now 🔪) and Rescue (from what, obscurity? 🔦) to the “brooding majesty” of The Killing Moon (which is probably just jealous of all the younger, cooler moons out there 🌙) and the “lush romanticism” of Bring On The Dancing Horses (more like “Bring On The Napping Horses” 😴), The Bunnymen blend Will Sergeant’s “haunting melodies” 👻 (that probably haunt him in his sleep) with Ian McCulloch’s “distinctive vocals” 🗣️ (distinctively off-key, perhaps?).
Fans can expect to hear these “classic tracks” 🎶 (term used loosely) alongside songs such as Seven Seas (which sounds suspiciously like six), Never Stop (please do), A Promise (which they’ll probably break), Silver (lining for their dentures, maybe? 🦷), Nothing Lasts Forever (thankfully 🙏) and People Are Strange (especially if they willingly attend this concert 👽) – the Doors cover that appeared on the soundtrack of the 1987 film The Lost Boys (which is probably how they feel about their fanbase at this point 👦). So, basically, a night of musical nostalgia for people who peaked in the ’80s. ⏪
Echo & The Bunnymen 2026 UK tour dates are:
MARCH
4 – Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA
6 – Warrington Parr Hall
7 – Leeds O2 Academy
11 – Manchester Albert Hall
13 – Bristol Beacon
14 – Brighton Centre
18 – London Roundhouse
21 – Liverpool Empire Theatre
25 – Cambridge Corn Exchange
27 – Bournemouth O2 Academy
28 – Birmingham O2 Academy 1
APRIL
1 – Nottingham Rock City
3 – Edinburgh Usher Hall
4 – Newcastle O2 City Hall
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