Dexys Midnight Runners announce 2026 UK and Ireland tour and sign to Heavenly Recordings

Dexys Midnight Runners have announced that they have signed to Heavenly Recordings, and will be heading out on a UK and Ireland tour later this year.

The new shows kick off in the autumn, and mark the first time that singer Kevin Rowland and co. have toured as Dexys Midnight Runners since 2003, when they played their final show under that name at London’s Southbank Centre.

The group, formed in Birmingham in 1978 and best known for their chart-topping hits ‘Geno’ and ‘Come on Eileen’, have more recently gone by the name ‘Dexys’, and shared their 2012 comeback album ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’ and 2023’s ‘The Feminine Divine’ in the time since.

They are now back under the Dexy Midnight Runners name and will be launching the tour at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on October 20.

From there, they play Newcastle, Wolverhampton, Manchester, London and Cambridge throughout the rest of the month, before wrapping up the tour in Brighton, Dublin, Belfast and Bristol in November.

Tickets go on sale this Friday (March 27) at 10am local time. Visit here for tickets.

Dexys Midnight Runners 2026 tour dates are:

OCTOBER
20 – Royal Concert Hall – GLASGOW
21– City Hall – NEWCASTLE
23– The Halls, University of Wolverhampton – WOLVERHAMPTON
25– Opera House – MANCHESTER
28– Hackney Empire – LONDON
30– Corn Exchange – CAMBRIDGE

NOVEMBER
1 – Dome – BRIGHTON
4 – Olympia – DUBLIN
5 – Ulster Hall – BELFAST
8 – Beacon – BRISTOL

As well as announcing their new tour dates, Dexys Midnight Runners have also revealed that they have signed to Heavenly Recordings. The record label has previously had huge names like Manic Street Preachers, Mark Lanegan, Doves and Saint Etienne signed to it, and those currently signed with it, alongside Dexys Midnight Runners, include Kneecap, Confidence Man, Baxter Dury, Katy J Pearson and more.

It has not been confirmed whether or not the band are currently working on new music. As well as planning the new tour, Rowland has recently released his memoir, Bless Me Father.

Before the band shared their latest album, 2023’s ‘The Feminine Divine’, they joined forces with Primal Scream to share a track in support of railway workers.

Since then, the singer took part in NME‘s Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! series, and looked back at how he called David Bowie “full of shit” and “a bad copy of Bryan Ferry”.