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The profile · researched 3 October 2026
Enter Shikari's last full diary: the band that sold out the Astoria unsigned has booked itself an ending
Twenty-seven years after forming in St Albans, Enter Shikari surprise-released an eighth album in April 2026 and then, on 1 October, announced they will fall dormant on 31 December 2027 — making the arena run going on sale now the last routed British tour with a date after it guaranteed.
St Albans, 1999, under another name
Enter Shikari started in St Albans in 1999 as Hybryd, built around Rou Reynolds on vocals and keyboards, Chris Batten on bass and Rob Rolfe on drums. Guitarist Rory Clewlow joined in 2003, which both completed the line-up that still plays and triggered the change of name — taken from a boat belonging to Reynolds's uncle. That same four-piece has been intact for twenty-three years, with no replacements and no revolving cast of touring members behind it.
The band's reputation was made before any label was involved. In 2006, still unsigned, they sold out the London Astoria and played Download Festival, and they released through their own imprint, Ambush Reality, rather than waiting to be picked up. The sound that came out of that period — hardcore shouting welded to trance synths, drum and bass breaks and gang vocals — got labelled electronicore, a tag the band have outlived without ever quite shaking off.
The political content was there from the start and has stayed: nuclear weapons, climate breakdown, the mechanics of capitalism, the state of British public life. It is the thread that connects a 2009 record to a 2026 one more reliably than any guitar tone does.
Eight albums, one number one
Take to the Skies arrived on 19 March 2007 and reached number four in the UK, later certified gold. Common Dreads followed on 15 June 2009 at number sixteen, and A Flash Flood of Colour on 16 January 2012 went to number four and silver. The Mindsweep came on 19 January 2015 and The Spark on 22 September 2017, the latter a deliberate softening — more melody, fewer breakdowns — that split the audience it was aimed at.
Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible, released on 17 April 2020 straight into the first lockdown, peaked at number two. The number one finally came with A Kiss for the Whole World on 21 April 2023, after five consecutive top-ten albums. Reynolds produced it himself and the band recorded it on solar power in a run-down farmhouse; he described the result as an explosive reconnection with what Enter Shikari is. It holds a Metacritic score of 79, with NME saying the band sounded perhaps the most joyful they ever had.
The awards cabinet is mostly about the stage rather than the studio. Kerrang! named them Best Live Band in 2007 and again in 2012, gave them the Spirit of Independence award in 2007, made Reynolds Hero of the Year in 2012 and gave Best Single to 'Anaesthetist' in 2015. NME handed them the John Peel Award for Musical Innovation in 2007, and the Heavy Music Awards named them Best Live Band in 2017.
10 April 2026: an album with no warning
Lose Your Self appeared at midnight on 10 April 2026 through So Recordings and Silva Screen Recordings, with no singles, no announcement and no rollout — digital, CD and vinyl all at once, after new material was aired at a small Manchester show. Reynolds's stated reason was that the record needed to be heard whole: no lead up, no singles and no explanation. It entered the UK albums chart at number sixteen, topped the UK rock and metal chart, reached number seven in Scotland and number forty-five in Australia.
Reynolds produced it himself across roughly three years, written and recorded in fragments on tour rather than in one session — he has been explicit that there was no romantic retreat to a cottage. The band called it one of their darkest and heaviest albums while still preaching hope. It runs twelve tracks in about forty-one minutes and includes the three-part orchestral 'Spaceship Earth' suite, recorded with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Reviews were good rather than unanimous: Metacritic aggregates 75, with Clash at 8/10 and Kerrang! at four stars, while Sputnikmusic came in at three out of five. The band then played the record in rooms far below their usual size — The Cavern in Liverpool on 23 April, The Fighting Cocks in Kingston on 24 April and Signature Brew Blackhorse Road in London on 25 April, with tickets going on sale on 15 April.
A diary that stops at 2027
On 1 October 2026 the band confirmed they will fall dormant as a recording and performing entity from 31 December 2027. Their wording was careful: they do not think they are splitting up, but they do not have a diary that extends beyond 2027, and the dormancy may eventually end with an eruption back into activity or may end with extinction, with no idea which.
Part of the context is Reynolds's health. He had already posted a video explaining a period of silence, describing adversity that had brought his capacity to zero and naming burnout, OCD and nervous system sensitisation. The band have been clear that the conversations about stopping predate his illness — they were driven by the economics of touring, its effect on mental health, and four sets of personal priorities that have moved apart — but that seeing a friend in trouble made those conversations more pressing.
2027 is not being sold as a farewell world tour, and the band have said so directly. Instead it is anniversary work: twenty years since Take to the Skies, fifteen since A Flash Flood of Colour, ten since The Spark, with the original debut multitracks being revisited. Festival dates in mainland Europe and North America are being booked, along with US shows in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee in January 2027, a date on the E.N.D. Cruise out of Great Stirrup Cay on 22 January and Greenfield Festival in Interlaken on 10 June. There is also new music they say will land sooner rather than later, plus something they have just finished filming.
The November run, and what is on sale
The tour currently on sale is the one the band announced in January 2026 alongside a new logo, billed as their largest UK headline run. The European leg opens at the Sporthalle in Hamburg on 3 November and takes in Munich, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Brussels, Strasbourg and Tilburg before crossing the Channel.
The UK leg starts at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham on 13 November, then Utilita Arena Cardiff on 14 November, Connexin Live in Hull on 15 November, the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on 18 November, Co-op Live in Manchester on 19 November and two nights at Alexandra Palace in London on 20 and 21 November. It carries on to The Telegraph Building in Belfast on 2 December and two nights at The Academy in Dublin on 3 and 4 December. Before all of that there are two smaller October shows, O2 Academy Oxford on 21 October — already sold out — and O2 Academy Leicester on 22 October.
Holding Absence and the Atlanta band The Callous Daoboys open across both the European and UK legs. The Alexandra Palace shows are 16-plus with a 6.30pm start, and £1 from every ticket on the tour goes to LIVE Trust, which funds grassroots music venues in the UK. The band have promised an entirely new production and show design for these rooms, which is the one part of the pitch that cannot be checked until November.
The show, now
A 2026 Enter Shikari show runs to about sixteen or seventeen songs, roughly two-thirds new record and one-third back catalogue, with one encore at about seven shows in ten. Across the fourteen documented shows of the year the opener has almost always been the title track 'LOSE YOUR SELF' followed by 'Labyrinth', with '(pls) set me on fire', 'Undercover Agents', 'The Void Stares Back' and 'The Flick of a Switch I.' from the new album threaded between 'Sorry, You're Not a Winner', 'Bloodshot', 'Rabble Rouser' and 'The Last Garrison'. '{ The Dreamer's Hotel }' closes the main set in most shows and 'Juggernauts' is the usual final song. At the Pier Bandroom in Melbourne on 19 May the set ran to nineteen songs and included the live debut of 'Spaceship Earth (I. Avec Abandon)', the orchestral piece from the new album. The Australian run was a theatre-sized affair — The Forum in Melbourne on 17 May, Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 22 May, The Tivoli in Brisbane on 23 May — opened by Friends of Friends and grandson, and one review out of Melbourne called the band one of modern heavy music's most thoughtful and compelling live forces, noting Rob Rolfe stopping to talk about the financial pressure on live music worldwide. The November arena shows are a different proposition: Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys open, the band have built a new production and show design for rooms up to the size of the OVO Hydro and Co-op Live, and £1 per ticket goes to LIVE Trust. Given the 31 December 2027 shutdown and the band's own acknowledgement that this may be the last time some people see them, demand is already visible — the small Oxford warm-up on 21 October has sold out.
Researched from en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org · nme.com · theprp.com · entershikari.com · entershikari.com · xsnoize.com
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