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The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has unveiled details of a headline tour across North America, the UK and Ireland this autumn - and he’s heading to Yorkshire.

He plays York Barbican on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

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Fans pre-ordering his fothcoming third solo album, THRASHER, can get access to pre-sale tickets from Wednesday, July 1, 10am - CLICK HERE.

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The UK run includes a special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall on October 15.

Other dates, see below, will be in Weds Bournemouth, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgpw, Birmingham and Dublin.

Fans can look forward to hearing songs from THRASHER played live for the first time alongside highlights from Flowers’ UK chart-topping solo albums, Flamingo (2010) and The Desired Effect (2015), as well as beloved tracks from The Killers’ celebrated catalogue.

The Royal Albert Hall date is set to be a particularly special occasion, marking Flowers’s first full performance at the venue since The Killers’ legendary 2009 shows.

Those unforgettable concerts were later released on the band’s iconic live album and DVD release Live From The Royal Albert Hall.

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Brandon Flowers UK & Ireland 2026 Tour | SJM Concerts

THRASHER will be released on August 21, 2026, via Island Records. Pre-order here shopuk.brandonflowersmusic.com.

Recorded in Nashville at Historic RCA Studio A with longtime producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, it features many of Music City’s most renowned players, including longtime Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings on guitar, prolific and influential pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and 85-year-old Charlie McCoy, the legendary harmonica player whose signature playing graces all four of Bob Dylan’s iconic Nashville records.

Rooted in his formative childhood years in the small town of Nephi, Utah, the timeless sonic approach proves to be the ideal home for Flowers’ most personal and vulnerable songwriting yet.

First Single, Plans, is for release this Friday, June 26..

We all know the story, fittingly mythological: a man raised in the seedy glimmer of casinos, destined for rock ‘n’ roll stardom.

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Brandon Flowers third solo album Thrasher is out August 21, 2026. | Island Records

But before that, Flowers was a teenager in small-town Utah, taken with the new wave and post-punk and Britpop his brother had shown him, yet spending just as much time driving the countryside with his dad and hearing Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings songs reflect his surroundings back at him.

Those seemingly disparate influences have converged in Flowers’ music for 20 years, but he only rarely wrote about that chapter of his life.

As he entered his forties, he began reflecting not only on the whirlwind of his adulthood as a rockstar, but also on his formative years in Utah. Ideas swirled, then arrived in the form of the music that first taught him about storytelling. They culminated in THRASHER.

Though Americana and Western stylings have often mingled with the alternative traditions in The Killers’ DNA as far back as their 2006 second album, Sam’s Town, all the way through to 2021’s Pressure Machine, Flowers found that he’d tapped a new, rich vein of his songwriting.

He said: “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music - ‘Country-Western’ (as he called it) - and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the skin of this beautiful American tradition,” he says.

UK & IRELAND TOUR DATES - OCTOBER 2026

Weds 14th October BOURNEMOUTH, O2 Academy

Thurs 15th LONDON, Royal Albert Hall

Sat 17th BRISTOL, Beacon

Sun 18th NOTTINGHAM, Rock City

Tues 20th MANCHESTER, O2 Apollo

Weds 21st YORK, Barbican

Fri 23rd GLASGOW, O2 Academy

Sat 24th BIRMINGHAM, O2 Academy

Tues 27th DUBLIN, Olympia

THRASHER TRACK LISTING

1. Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?

2. One Of Us

3. Tiger’s Blood

4. Plans

5. Paradise

6. Miss America

7. Angel

8. The Red Ground

9. In A Heartbeat

10. An American Dream

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