Kraftwerk announce 2026 UK and Ireland ‘Multimedia’ tour

Kraftwerk have announced a new UK and Ireland leg of their ‘Multimedia’ tour to take place in 2026.

The German electronic pioneers took their current tour around North America earlier this year, including a set at Coachella, and now they have announced a run of dates in the UK and Ireland to take place in May and June next year.

Ralf Hütter and co. will kick off the shows at Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre on May 17, before heading to Belfast, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Glasgow, Stockton, Sheffield, Brighton, Bristol and Bournemouth.

They will then play two huge shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 4 and 5, before rounding off the tour with gigs in Liverpool, Nottingham and finally Edinburgh’s Playhouse on June 9.

Tickets for the shows go on sale at 9am on October 10 and you will be able to find yours here.

Kraftwerk will play:

MAY 2026
17 – Dublin, Bord Gais Energy Theatre
18 – Belfast, Waterfront Hall
21 – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
22 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
25 – Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
27 – Stockton, Globe
29 – Sheffield, City Hall
30 – Brighton, Centre

JUNE 2026
1 – Bristol, Beacon
2 – Bournemouth, International Centre
4 – London, Royal Albert Hall
5 – London, Royal Albert Hall
7 – Liverpool, Empire Theatre
8 – Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
9 – Edinburgh, Playhouse

The shows will make up Kraftwerk’s first UK tour since 2017, although they did play a one-off show at Milton Keynes’ Forever Now Festival in June.

The ‘Multimedia’ tour first began in 2012 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and is described in a press release as “part performance, part digital installation”. The 3D shows see the band playing music from across their career, including from the classic albums ‘Autobahn’ (1974), ‘Trans Europe Express’ (1977) and ‘Computer World’ (1981).

Last year, Kraftwerk paid tribute to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto with a cover of ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’, a track they also performed last summer at Fuji Rock Festival in the renowned composer’s home country of Japan.

Elsewhere, in April, former Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür was reportedly tricked into working with an imposter pretending to be Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter on his new solo album ‘Times’.