The Vaccines announce UK tour to celebrate 15th anniversary of debut album

The Vaccines have announced a UK tour to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their debut album ‘What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?’.

First released on March 11, 2011, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at Number Four and spawned six singles: ‘Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’, ‘Post Break-Up Sex’, ‘If You Wanna’, ‘All In White’, ‘Nørgaard’ and ‘Wetsuit’.

Now, a 2026 tour will see them play the LP in full, alongside other hits from their discography over the past 15 years.

The string of shows will kick off on March 3 in Newcastle, before they head to Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham and Bristol. They’ll then wrap things up on March 13 with a performance at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.

Pre-sale tickets go on sale next Wednesday (August 27) at 10am and you can sign up here. Then, general sale will commence on Friday (August 29) at 10am, and you’ll be able to find tickets here.

Find a full list of dates and venues below.

MARCH
3 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
4 – Usher Hall, Edinburgh
6 – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
7 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
9 – O2 Academy, Leeds
10 – Rock City, Nottingham
11 – The Prospect Building, Bristol
13 – O2 Academy Brixton, London

The band released their last album, ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’,  last year. In a three-star review of the record, NME wrote that while “it might not offer anything new”, the band are “good at what they do, even if it’s nothing particularly groundbreaking.”

The year before, The Vaccines spoke to NME about the “hopeful and euphoric” ten-track offering, with frontman Justin Young saying the record felt “nostalgic” to them.

“Something I’ve said about our music so many times is there’s euphoria and melancholia in equal measure,” he said. “I don’t think this is a sad or depressing record – I actually think it’s quite hopeful and euphoric – but I do think it has these melancholic undertones.”

He continued: “It’s more cohesive than most [of our] records in terms of songs, but sound as well. It feels like we achieved what we set out to achieve.

“There’s this brief love affair that you get to have with the album you’ve made between finishing it and everybody else hearing it, and before people telling you it’s not pretty enough or clever enough, or whatever it may be. I’ve really enjoyed that period – I’ve played the album to death and it’s given me a lot of joy, so hopefully it’ll give other people joy too.”