Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk have thrilled fans by announcing a major UK and Ireland tour for 2026, marking their first extensive run of shows in the region since 2017. Following a highly successful global tour that included a standout performance at Coachella, founder Ralf Hütter is bringing the group's revolutionary sound and legendary visuals back to British and Irish stages.
The tour will consist of 15 dates across May and June 2026, offering fans a fresh opportunity to witness the band's renowned multimedia spectacle. Tickets for the highly anticipated shows go on sale at 9am on Friday, October 10.
Kraftwerk's return follows their recent, universally praised one-off performance at the Forever Now Festival, where The Times declared, "Even now, almost 60 years into their career, Kraftwerk are still waiting for the world to catch up with them... their techno-utopian machine symphonies will forever sound like the future.”
Led by Hütter, the performance is far more than a concert; it’s an immersive, constantly upgraded Multimedia Tour that fuses performance art with digital installation. The show will feature selections from across the band’s eight classic albums, including Autobahn, Trans Europe Express, and The Man-Machine. Each composition is enhanced by state-of-the-art 3-D graphics, turning the monumental beats and melodies into a truly transcendental experience.
Since Hütter and Florian Schneider founded the project in 1970, Kraftwerk has been a guiding force in electronic music, their innovative use of synthetic voices, computerised rhythms, and robotics shaping the genre for over five decades. The DNA of their work can be heard across contemporary music, from Daft Punk to The Weeknd. The 2026 tour promises to be an unmissable technological and audio event, beaming audiences straight into the future as only the German legends can.
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