Belgium’s finest alt-rock stalwarts dEUS are set to release 30th Anniversary editions of their first two albums, Worst Case Scenario (1994) and In A Bar Under The Sea (1996) to coincide with their major European tour this spring.
Their already announced tour of Europe kicks off in their native country in March with a couple of intimate shows (at the venue where they first started out in 1993) before moving on to a series of dates across France, UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland and Turkey. See full itinerary and how to obtain tickets below.
The tour is being billed as ‘Worst Case versus In A Bar’ and as a result dEUS will be performing sets focusing primarily on playing in full their two earliest mid-1990s albums that were released to widespread critical acclaim at the time for being ‘defiantly unique genre-straddling art rock with influences as wide ranging as Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Mercury Rev, Smashing Pumpkins, the Velvets, Charles Mingus and all other points in between’.
Coinciding with the tour, dEUS have also announced new remastered and expanded 30th Anniversary reissues of Worst Case Scenario and In A Bar Under The Sea on vinyl and CD formats. The vinyl formats will be a triple LP with associated single b-sides, demos and unreleased bonuses as extras spread across the three discs, complete with associated expanded sleeve artwork, whilst the CD editions will be double discs with enhanced sleeve artwork containing the same extras.
This will be the first time that their second album, In A Bar Under The Sea, has been given the ‘anniversary’ treatment as both Worst Case Scenario and 1999’s commercial watershed breakthrough The Ideal Crash have already enjoyed special anniversary editions on vinyl and CD in the past.
The remastered versions of both albums are scheduled to be released on 20th March 2026 via Play It Again Sam and they can be pre-ordered through all usual online platforms as well as through PIAS.
In A Bar Under The Sea (PIAS)
Worst Case Scenario (PIAS)
The European Tour Dates are as follows:
10 March 2026 – De Zwerver, Leffinge, Middelkerke, Belgium
11 March 2026 – De Zwerver, Leffinge, Middelkerke, Belgium
12 March 2026 – L’ Aéronef, Lille, France SOLD OUT
13 March 2026 – L’ Olympia, Paris, France
15 March 2026 – La Vapeur, Dijon, France
17 March 2026 – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK
19 March 2026 – Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
20 March 2026 – Forest National, Brussels, Belgium
21 March 2026 – Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Nijmegen, Netherlands SOLD OUT
24 March 2026 – Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, Köln, Germany
25 March 2026 – Metropol, Berlin, Germany
27 March 2026 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
28 March 2026 – FRI-Son, Fribourg, Switzerland
29 March 2026 – Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy
31 March 2026 – Arena Vienna, Vienna, Austria
02 April 2026 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands SOLD OUT
03 April 2026 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands SOLD OUT
04 April 2026 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands SOLD OUT
06 April 2026 – De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands
07 April 2026 – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
09 April 2026 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 April 2026 – Debaser AB, Stockholm, Sweden
11 April 2026 – Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
13 April 2026 – Klub Stodoła, Warszawa, Poland
15 April 2026 – Paribu Art, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey
28 May 2026 – Muziekgieterij, Maastricht, Netherlands SOLD OUT
30 May 2026 – Vestrock 2026, Hulst, Netherlands
10 July 2026 – Slot Zeist, Zeist, Netherlands
11 July 2026 – TW Classic, Werchter, Belgium
Watch footage of dEUS live in Belgium last summer, captured on YouTube.
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