{"id":1163529,"date":"2026-08-22T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1163529\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:36:19","slug":"bleachers-take-everyone-for-ten-minutes-across-europe-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1163529\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleachers Take ‘Everyone for Ten Minutes’ Across Europe This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Photo Credit: Alex Lockett<\/p>\n

Bleachers have always made their best songs feel like they were built for a room full of people shouting them back, and this fall the band takes \u2018Everyone for Ten Minutes\u2019 across Europe and the UK on its biggest headlining run there yet.<\/p>\n

The fifth Bleachers album has been out since May, and it pushes the six-piece further into the sound they\u2019ve spent years refining: harmony-heavy folk rock, glossy pop-soul and the saxophone-charged New Jersey sweep that has become inseparable from the band\u2019s identity. The record occasionally heads into darker territory, but its emotional centre stays stubbornly romantic.<\/p>\n

That balance suits Bleachers.<\/p>\n

Songs such as \u201cThe Van,\u201d \u201cYou and Forever\u201d and \u201cDirty Wedding Dress\u201d arrive with the kind of detail and immediacy that have long separated Jack Antonoff\u2019s work with the band from his production work for other performers. Bleachers records sound communal even when the lyrics are deeply personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Van\u201d is especially good at that trick. It feels loose, lived-in and designed for movement, with the band\u2019s chemistry doing as much of the work as any individual hook.<\/p>\n

The current Bleachers lineup has also become increasingly important to the music itself. \u2018Everyone for Ten Minutes\u2019 was presented as a culmination of the six members\u2019 shared obsession with arrangement, performance and the mechanics of making a band sound like a band rather than a studio construction.<\/p>\n

That shows up in the textures.<\/p>\n

The album moves easily from softer acoustic passages into bigger, brighter pop arrangements, often letting saxophone, stacked vocals and rhythm-section momentum carry the emotional lift. At its best, Bleachers can make a song feel intimate and oversized at the same time.<\/p>\n

The remaining 2026 dates begin in Berlin in September before the tour moves through Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the UK and Ireland. Two nights at Amsterdam\u2019s Paradiso are on the schedule, while the run closes with Manchester and London in early December.<\/p>\n

The London show at Eventim Apollo is one of the biggest remaining dates and gives the band a fitting finish to a year built around \u2018Everyone for Ten Minutes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Bleachers have spent more than a decade turning nostalgia, anxiety, romance and rock-band idealism into something distinctly their own. These upcoming shows give the latest version of that sound a much bigger room.<\/p>\n

TOUR DATES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 11 \u2013 Berlin, DE \u2013 Columbiahalle
October 11 \u2013 Berlin, DE \u2013 Columbiahalle
November 12 \u2013 Oslo, NO \u2013 Sentrum Scene
November 13 \u2013 Stockholm, SE \u2013 Annexet
November 15 \u2013 Hamburg, DE \u2013 Sporthalle
November 17 \u2013 Amsterdam, NL \u2013 Paradiso
November 18 \u2013 Amsterdam, NL \u2013 Paradiso
November 20 \u2013 Brussels, BE \u2013 Cirque Royal
November 21 \u2013 Paris, FR \u2013 Salle Pleyel
November 24 \u2013 Bristol, UK \u2013 O2 Academy
November 25 \u2013 Glasgow, UK \u2013 O2 Academy
November 26 \u2013 Leeds, UK \u2013 O2 Academy
November 28 \u2013 Birmingham, UK \u2013 O2 Academy
November 30 \u2013 Dublin, IE \u2013 3Olympia
December 2 \u2013 Manchester, UK \u2013 O2 Apollo
December 3 \u2013 London, UK \u2013 Eventim Apollo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Alex Lockett Bleachers have always made their best songs feel like they were built for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1163530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[315826,315827,315828,315829,315830,315831,2000,299,5187,17163,315832,73660,123752,315833,126001,123755,315834,315835,315836,315837,315838,315839,315840],"class_list":["post-1163529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-3olympia","tag-annexet","tag-bleachers","tag-cirque-royal","tag-columbiahalle","tag-dirty-wedding-dress","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-eventim-apollo","tag-everyone-for-ten-minutes","tag-jack-antonoff","tag-o2-academy-birmingham","tag-o2-academy-bristol","tag-o2-academy-glasgow","tag-o2-academy-leeds","tag-o2-apollo","tag-paradiso","tag-salle-pleyel","tag-sentrum-scene","tag-sporthalle","tag-the-van","tag-you-and-forever"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117140849038544850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}