There is a version of this announcement that gets filed under 'tour news' and forgotten by Thursday. This is not that. Yard Act have confirmed three UK dates for autumn 2026 — London EartH on 14 November, Manchester Albert Hall on 16 November, Glasgow SWG3 on 18 November — behind a third album that Island Records will put out in October and which, as of now, does not have a title. You are being asked to buy a ticket to something that hasn't been named yet. That's either a dare or a statement of intent, and frankly either reading is more interesting than most of what's being announced this year.

The Support Act Is Not an Afterthought

English Teacher are on all three dates, and if you've been paying any attention to what's been coming out of Leeds and its general orbit, you'll understand why that matters. This is not a support slot handed to someone's management's second act. Two bands with something to say, on the same bill, in rooms that can hold a crowd without becoming an arena — EartH, Albert Hall, SWG3 are all spaces where the sound and the room are still in conversation with each other, rather than the room simply swallowing everything whole.

An Untitled Album in October

The record comes first — October on Island — and the tour follows in November, which is the correct sequencing and also increasingly not how things are done. You'll have had at least a few weeks with whatever Yard Act have made before you stand in a room and hear it played at volume. Whether the album has a title by the time you read this is between Yard Act and their press office, but right now the source material is as sparse as the band presumably wants it.

Tickets go on general sale Friday 6 June at 10am. Set an alarm, or don't, but don't come to us in July asking where they went.