{"id":15690,"date":"2026-04-17T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/15690\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:40:33","slug":"the-strokes-add-extra-london-o2-show-to-2026-reality-awaits-uk-tour-due-to-phenomenal-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/15690\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strokes add extra London O2 show to 2026 ‘Reality Awaits’ UK tour due to phenomenal demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strokes<\/a> have announced an extra London O2 show for their 2026 \u2018Reality Awaits\u2019 UK tour due to phenomenal demand.<\/p>\n

The New York indie rock legends are soon to release their new album \u2018Reality Awaits<\/a>\u2018, their first album in six years. The record \u2013 recorded in Costa Rica with producer Rick Rubin<\/a> and finished in a number of global locations \u2013 will arrive June 26 via Cult Records\/RCA Records, and is available to pre-order here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To mark the occasion, The Strokes announced a whopping world tour visiting the UK, North America, Europe and Japan.<\/a> It will be their first full tour in the UK and Ireland in over 20 years, and will see them stop by London\u2019s O2, Newcastle\u2019s Utilita Arena, Manchester\u2019s Co-op Live and Dublin\u2019s 3Arena in October.<\/p>\n

Thundercat<\/a>,\u00a0Cage the Elephant<\/a>,\u00a0Hamilton Leithauser<\/a>,\u00a0Fat White Family<\/a>, Alex Cameron and \u00d6L\u00dcM will support select dates across the world tour.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s been announced that The Strokes have added an extra date to their O2 show thanks to phenomenal demand. Alongside their previously announced October 6 date, Julian Casablancas<\/a> and co. will now play another gig at the O2 on October 7.<\/p>\n

General sale begins tomorrow (April 17) at 10am local time \u2013 get your tickets here<\/a> and see below for The Strokes\u2019 UK and Ireland dates:<\/p>\n

The Strokes\u2019 2026 \u2018Reality Awaits\u2019 UK and Ireland tour dates are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

OCTOBER
6 \u2014 London, UK\u2014The O2
7 \u2014 London, UK\u2014The O2
25 \u2014 Newcastle, UK\u2014Utilita Arena
26 \u2014 Manchester, UK\u2014Co-op Live
28 \u2014 Dublin, IE\u20143Arena<\/p>\n

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So far, The Strokes have released their first single from \u2018Reality Awaits\u2019, \u2018Going Shopping<\/a>\u2018. The song was\u00a0posted to fans <\/a>on cassette first, leading fans to share bootlegs online before the band debuted the song live in San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In our three-star review of the track<\/a>, NME\u00a0wrote: \u201cAlthough \u2018Going Shopping\u2019 doesn\u2019t feel bold, it does avoid playing anything safe. You couldn\u2019t definitively place its sound on any of The Strokes\u2019 previous six albums, but the lack of spirit and tenacity \u2013 save for a guitar solo at the end \u2013 is noticeable.\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re better than me you don\u2019t have to judge me,\u201d signs off Casablancas, with an imaginary raised eyebrow. But perhaps even he would admit that The Strokes are better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously, Albert Hammond Jr<\/a> has stated that the album would have a \u201clooser\u201d feel<\/a>, given their recording location in Costa Rica. \u201cI think the environment can affect you, sure; sometimes it might come out in a song or a part,\u201d he told The Shaky Experience<\/a> podcast in 2023. \u201cAnd because you know that, you\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh, it feels like this\u2019. Maybe it adds to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think if there\u2019s any vibe that comes from an environment like that, it\u2019s that the songs might be a little looser in a sense of our style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, watch The Strokes rock Coachella 2026 as Julian Casablancas makes a subtle dig at Jeff Bezos.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Strokes have announced an extra London O2 show for their 2026 \u2018Reality Awaits\u2019 UK tour due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6475,4986,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-15690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-indie","9":"tag-live-music-news","10":"tag-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116418447083227520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}