Richard Ashcroft played a show at North London’s Alexandra Palace Park on July 17th as part of his 2026 UK outdoor summer tour, following his recent 2025 stadium run with Oasis. Best known as the lead singer of 1990s alternative rock band The Verve, Ashcroft went on to build a successful solo career after the band split in 1999.

For any fanbase, four years is a serious amount of time to be waiting for new music. Since 2022’s Scoring the End of the World, Motionless in White have left fans hanging, but the wait is over. Latest single, ‘Afraid Of The Dark’ hails the next epoch of the Pennsylvania Goth Metallers and they have thrown all caution to the wind and headed out on a UK and EU tour, solely based on this 4 minutes of new material. They're keen, we're keen - bring on the theatrics.

The last time Bad Omens played a headline show in London it was to 600 people at The Dome in 2023. Two years down the line and they are a band in a different league, but in many ways, the band they were always meant to become.

On the first date of Spiritbox’s European tour, the atmosphere was full of anticipation. As the band took the stage, the crowd erupted in a wave of excitement, ready to be swept away by the powerful performance that was about to unfold.