Editors return with new single and tour dates for 2027
Tom Smith’s long-running indie mopesters will play shows in Glasgow, Manchester, London and more
Editors have announced a brand-new tour and a single, ‘Call It In’, presumably laying the groundwork for a new album this year. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 11am on Friday 1 May. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a detailed list of the band’s UK and Ireland tour dates.
The new single continues the band’s reputation for up-tempo but downbeat indie rock, with singer Tom Smith’s usual knack for surprising permutations on moroseness (‘Melancholy, never over it,’ he observes during the chorus).
On the single, frontman Smith said: ‘We spent a lot of summer 2025 holed up in rural Gloucestershire, working on songs with all of us in a room, in a more traditional band set-up. “Call It In” is one of the newest songs we worked on. It’s a song about asking for help, really, in the presence of an existential dread, finding solace and comfort in someone close, and escaping the deafening noise of modern life.’
Releasing their debut The Back Room in 2005, Editors have been one of the few acts to emerge from the mid-2000s indie scene and remain creatively fertile, with albums that have flirted with synth, darkwave, X Factor-style balladry and 80s-inflected power pop. Smith is currently touring his latest solo album There Is Nothing In The Dark That Isn’t There In The Light. Tickets for that tour are on sale now.
Editors’ 2027 UK and Ireland tour dates:
Vicar Street, Dublin, Sunday 28 February
Ulster Hall, Belfast, Monday 1 March
O2 Academy, Glasgow, Tuesday 2 March
O2 City Hall, Newcastle, Thursday 4 March
O2 Apollo, Manchester, Friday 5 March
O2 Academy, Leeds, Sunday 7 March
Rock City, Nottingham, Monday 8 March
Prospect Building, Bristol, Tuesday 9 March
O2 Academy Brixton, London Thursday 11 March
O2 Guildhall, Southampton, Friday 12 March
Tickets for Editors' 2027 tour go on sale at 11am on Friday 1 May; Picture: Rahi Rezvani.
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