SLIPKNOT have announced their (sic)est Stadium Tour, crossing the globe Summer 2027. The tour, produced by Live Nation, launches July 3 at London’s historic Wembley Stadium, in a UK and Europe exclusive. On July 16, Slipknot touch down in D.C.’s Nationals Park to kick off their North American jaunt, which includes performances at Citi Field in Queens, New York, Chicago’s Soldier Field, Boston’s Fenway Park, Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and more. The tour wraps with five South American performances in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia.

Featuring a brand new set, new staging and a setlist spanning across their career, these shows will be the ultimate Slipknot experience to date.  The band are joined by Bring Me The Horizon as direct support on all North American dates with a rotation of special guests along the way including: Acid Bath, Lamb of God, Motionless In White, Lorna Shore, Kublai Khan TX, Polyphia, Loathe, and Vended. Marilyn Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed support Slipknot in London for the tour kick off. Manson and Hatebreed rejoin them in South America in September along with local support to warm up the crowd.

In case you missed it, Slipknot have uncovered massive projections and snipes across the world hinting at tonight’sepic (sic)est Stadium Tour Launch experience. Fans are encouraged to meetup at London’s Wembley Stadium (5-9PM) and SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles (5-9PM) to grab whichever tickets they’d like for each respective show before the rest of the world, ahead of all presales and general onsale to the public. Each event will feature a pop-up shop with exclusive, very limited merch items, and the first 500 ticket purchasers will receive a free event poster with exclusive art. Each event is first come, first served. At sunset, fans are encouraged to gather around a 30 foot high, iconic flaming Slipknot Tribal S symbol. See details for each location below:

(sic)est Stadium Tour Launch experience London, U.K. at Wembley Stadium:
Address: Wembley HA9 0WS, United Kingdom. For help planning your trip to Wembley please check out – https://www.wembleystadium.com/plan-your-visit/getting-to-wembley
Box Office: Open from 5-9PM BST. Tickets will be available for sale at the Wembley Stadium West Ticket Office located at the top of the Olympic Steps.
How To Buy Tickets On Site: You can only purchase tickets at the box office window. Cash sales are not accepted, all tickets must be purchased via a debit or credit card. Tickets will not be printed, they will be emailed digitally. 8 tickets maximum per person.
Ticket Options + Seating Map: VIP Packages and all ticket price levels will be available. VIP perks include early entry, access to private Slipknot-themed lounges, exclusive items signed by the band, and more. Packages will be available for purchase with each ticket. For more information on VIP packages, visit slipknot1.com/VIP

For more info and the most up to date London launch event, go HERE.

(sic)est Stadium Tour Launch experience Los Angeles, CA at SoFi Stadium:
Address:3919 Pincay Dr, Inglewood, CA 90305
Parking: Opens at 3PM, Free parking is located right by the tribal S in Lot C. Located on Pincay Drive, please use the above address to be routed directly to the lot.
Box Office: Open from 5-9PM PST – Tickets will be available for sale at the Entry 5 Box Office
How To Buy Tickets On Site: You can only purchase tickets at the box office window. Cash sales are not accepted, all tickets must be purchased via a debit or credit card. Tickets will not be printed, they will be emailed digitally. 8 tickets maximum per person.
Ticket Options + Seating Map: VIP Packages and all ticket price levels will be available. VIP perks include early entry, access to private Slipknot-themed lounges, exclusive items signed by the band, and more. Packages will be available for purchase with each ticket. For more information on VIP packages, visit slipknot1.com/VIP

For more info and the most up to date Los Angeles launch event, go HERE.

TICKETS: Slipknot’s Artist Presale kicks off on Tuesday, September 29 at 10AM Local. Knotfest Presale starts at 12PM Local Tuesday, September 29 at 12PM Local HERE and is followed by additional presales throughout the week. The general on sale begins Friday, October 2 at 10AM Local HERE. For more information and tickets, visit https://slipknot1.com/. Please check local listings for full presale and onsale details, as ticketing timelines vary by market.

Earlier this month, Slipknot surprised fans with their anthemic offering “Arsenal” – the band’s first new track in over three years. The single arrived alongside its eerie and imaginative music video directed by M Shawn Crahan – (clown) and starring Jackson White. On “Arsenal”, Slipknot sound sharper than ever, the direct result of their commitment to the music, first and foremost. The track is an undeniable statement of strength in the face of diversity, and a new marker for the world to deal with and wonder how Slipknot was always – and still remains – so dynamic and modern.

The culture of Slipknot has spread much farther than anyone could have predicted when nine guys from Iowa put on masks and uniforms, and began challenging the globe to keep up. The band’s influence can now be seen and felt in the underground, in those artists headlining rock and metal festivals across the world, and virtually everywhere in between. Across genres and subgenres, artists the world over are following in footsteps that have led out of the Midwest and onto stages around the world. And all without an ounce of compromise, to anyone. That authenticity has lauded them billions of streams, a Grammy award and several nominations, multiple RIAA certifications, and most recently prior to now, a completely sold-out global anniversary tour across some of the largest stages around the world (London’s O2 Arena, Madison Square Garden, LA’s Intuit Dome, etc). And they’re not letting up.

Nearly three decades in, it’s evident that Slipknot still summon the drive, creativity, and band camaraderie required to make music like this. Their rise to becoming one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of the 21st century is marked by hardship, having weathered enormous personal tragedies and facing them head on, a drive that has earned them respect from their fans and naysayers alike. Through it all, they’ve kept a fighting spirit that’s allowed them to keep innovating, and keep testing the ragged edges of their sound to see how much further they can push it.

SLIPKNOT (sic)est Stadium Tour Dates:

JUL 03 | London, UK | Wembley Stadium #!
JUL 16 | Washington, DC | Nationals Park ~%
JUL 18 | Queens, NY | Citi Field ~%
JUL 21 | Montréal, QC | Parc Jean Drapeau ~^@
JUL 23 | Toronto, ON | Rogers Stadium ~^
JUL 25 | Chicago, IL | Soldier Field  ~$
JUL 28 | Hershey, PA | Hersheypark Stadium ~!
JUL 31 | Boston, MA | Fenway Park ~!
AUG 03 | Nashville, TN | FirstBank Stadium ~^
AUG 06 | Houston, TX | Daikin Park ~+
AUG 09 | Commerce City, CO | Dick’s Sporting Goods Park ~=
AUG 13 | Inglewood, CA | SoFi Stadium ~=
AUG 15 | San Francisco, CA | Golden Gate Park ~&=
AUG 18 | Phoenix, AZ | Chase Field ~&
SEP 04 | São Paulo, Brazil | The Town*
SEP 08 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Estadio Huracán #
SEP 12 | Santiago, Chile | Estadio Nacional #
SEP 14 | Lima, Peru | Estadio Nacional #*
SEP 16 | Bogotá, Colombia | Vive Claro #

Welcoming support from:
# w/ Marilyn Manson, Hatebreed
~ w/ Bring Me The Horizon
% w/ Acid Bath
! w/ Lorna Shore
^ w/ Kublai Khan TX
@ w/ Vended
$ w/ Lamb of God
+ w/ Polyphia
= w/ Loathe
& w/ Motionless in White
* Non-Live Nation Date

There was something almost cheeky about Lily Allen making a venue full of people wait for the songs they came to hear, then giving them exactly what she promised instead.

Before Allen appeared at the Orpheum Theatre on September 28, 4 members of the Dallas Minor Sextet took the stage with cello arrangements of some of her biggest songs. “Smile,” “The Fear,” “LDN” and “Fuck You” became an elaborate karaoke session, with the lyrics projected onto screens while the audience did the singing. It could have felt like a strange substitute for an opening act, but instead, Vancouver embraced it. By the time “Fuck You” rolled around, the arena was doing a very good impression of several thousand people at a Lily Allen pub night.

Shortly before 9pm, the stage shifted into something altogether different. Allen appeared behind the curtains and launched into “West End Girl,” the title track from her 2025 album. From there, the evening stopped behaving like a conventional concert.

That distinction matters. Allen is not here to run through the hits, tell a few stories between songs and send everyone home with “Smile” stuck in their heads. The West End Girl tour has been built as a one-woman theatrical production, and the album is performed from beginning to end, in order. There is no live band and no parade of backup dancers. The focus is Allen, the story and an increasingly bizarre apartment set that seems to mutate with every song.

Allen has spent two decades turning blunt observations, bad decisions, sex, relationships and personal disasters into pop songs. West End Girl takes that instinct and strips away most of the distance. The album was already brutally personal. Seeing Allen physically inhabit it makes some of its moments considerably harder to escape.

The stage becomes her apartment, bedroom and emotional crime scene. A swing appears, chandeliers descend, and costumes change. At one point, Allen emerges with a receipt incorporated into her outfit, turning the evidence of betrayal into a ridiculous and oddly effective piece of stage design. A bag filled with decidedly NSFW contents gets its own moment. None of it feels particularly subtle, but subtlety would be a strange request to make of Lily Allen.

The strongest moments come when the production gets out of the way and Allen lets the ugliness of the story sit there. “Relapse” is devastating. Allen moves through the space with the exhaustion of someone trying to outrun her own thoughts before eventually breaking down in tears. There is no need for a speech afterward. The song has already said enough.

The phone call in “West End Girl” is another standout. Allen performs only her side of the conversation, but the missing voice is easy enough to fill in. The audience does, loudly. It is one of those moments where the fourth wall works in her favour. Allen doesn’t need to explain the story because we are already inside it.

That commitment to the album is what makes the show compelling. There are no “Not Fair,” “The Fear” or “Smile” performances from Allen herself. The old songs belong to the Dallas Minor Sextet, and that is a deliberate choice. Some fans will inevitably wish Allen had thrown one or two classics into the main set. I get it. If you’re standing at the Orpheum Theatre waiting to see Lily Allen, watching someone else perform “Fuck You” on cello is a pretty unusual way to get your money’s worth.

But once the main show begins, the absence of those songs makes sense. West End Girl is being treated as one complete piece, rather than a collection of tracks that happen to share an album cover.

Allen closes the album with the same theatrical control she maintained throughout the night. For “Fruityloop,” chandeliers come down around her, the stage returns to the world established at the beginning and the West End Girl sign comes back into view. It feels like the final scene of a play.

That’s probably the best way to judge this show. If you came expecting Lily Allen to perform her greatest hits, you might leave wondering where the concert went. If you accepted that West End Girl was the concert, the night made considerably more sense.

Lily Allen brought a play with a pop album attached to it. For 60 minutes, she made the Orpheum Theatre feel like her apartment, and I loved it.