COLIN STETSON announces details of a UK tour for April 2026
Colin Stetson has announced details of a UK tour for April 2026, his first dates in the country since 2024’s Hereditary soundtrack performance at the Barbican.
The new dates, which include a London’s Clapham Grand on 16 April, follow the release of his 2024 solo album, The love it took to leave you, out now via Invada Records (Worldwide excl. N America) and Envision Records (North America).
Talking about the dates, Stetson says, “Heading into winter now but very much looking forward to greeting the springtime with you all in the UK again. See you soon!”
The love it took to leave you tour – 2026
11 April – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall
12 April – Manchester, The Blues Kitchen Manchester
14 April – Birmingham, Bradshaw Hall – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
15 April – Bristol, The Lantern (Bristol Beacon)
16 April – London, Clapham Grand
17 April – Brighton, ACCA (Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts)
Tickets are on sale on Friday 17 October, full details HERE
The immersive sonics and surreal stereo imaging on The love it took to leave you come from years of experimentation and evolving methods of recording. Playing in larger and larger venues over the last few years Colin and live producer/engineer, Jonas Werwijnen, who he’s been working with for the last decade, have been finessing the art of not just tuning the room, but incorporating it into performance, integrating it into the compositions themselves. In the constant quest to render the alive, real-time sensation of performance in recording – to seize the music in all of its spatial and relational glory, they began scouting industrial sites for buildings with particular resonances and massive reverberant dimensions, settling on The Darling Foundry, a former metalworks facility in Montreal, now transformed into a 3500m3 contemporary art complex, with a voluminous main room that still maintains its raw architecture of brick, concrete and steel. “We were using the same live setup as I normally would to amplify—a full PA in the building’s spaces—so we were really able to move the kind of air that I can move—really saturating the room, hitting the walls hard. And then we further fleshed it out.”
TRACKLIST
Side A
1. The love it took to leave you – 7:45
2. The Six – 6:41
3. The Augur – 3:00
Side B
4. Hollowing – 3:19
5. To think we knew from fear – 3:39
6. Malediction – 9:22
7. Green and grey and fading light – 4:23
Side C
8. Strike your forge and grin – 21:52
Side D
9. Ember – 3:14
10. So say the soaring bullbats – 5:14
11. Bloodrest – 4:37
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