Bombay Bicycle Club have revealed plans for four intimate London concerts that will see them return to the grassroots venues where they first built their following while raising money for charity.
The indie band will head back to the independent venues where they began performing as teenagers later this month. The run starts with two consecutive nights at The Camden Assembly before continuing the following week with two shows at Nambucca in Archway.
The gigs celebrate the band reaching their 20 year milestone together. To mark the anniversary, the setlists for these performances will focus entirely on early material including their first EPs, singles and MySpace demos.
To select the opening acts, Bombay Bicycle Club previously launched an online battle of the bands competition. The contest invited emerging artists to apply for a chance to support them at the upcoming shows. The only requirement was that all members of the band had to be 18 years old or younger. After the competition concluded, Tight Lines were chosen to perform on March 13 and 14, while Call Me Animal will open on March 20 and 21.
Tickets for the four small shows will be distributed through a prize draw, with proceeds supporting the Universal Music UK Sound Foundation. The charity focuses on providing music education for children. Entries cost £10 each, and successful applicants will receive two tickets.
The deadline to enter is 12pm GMT on Monday March 9 for the concerts at The Camden Assembly and 12pm GMT on Monday March 16 for the Nambucca dates. Visit here to enter.
These grassroots shows come ahead of Bombay Bicycle Club’s headline appearance at London’s LIDO Festival on Sunday June 14. The lineup will also feature Metronomy, Alice Phoebe Lou, Billie Marten and longtime collaborator Lucy Rose.
During the festival the band will perform two separate sets. The first will take place in the afternoon and feature their second album ‘Flaws’ played in full. Later in the evening they will perform their debut record ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’.
Bombay Bicycle Club live UK 2026 shows are:
MARCH
13 – The Camden Assembly, London
14 – The Camden Assembly, London
20 – Nambucca, London
21 – Nambucca, London
JUNE
14 – LIDO Festival, London
The 2026 concerts follow the group’s appearance as special guests at The Maccabees’ reunion performance at All Points East 2025 last August.
The band’s most recent album arrived in 2023 with the release of their sixth studio record ‘My Big Day’, which debuted at Number Three on the UK Official Albums Chart. The project included collaborations with Chaka Khan, Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and Holly Humberstone.
In a four star review of the album, NME described it as “a creative milestone in itself, it’s a far cry from the four to the floor, teenage guitar band that a whole generation grew up with.”
Speaking to NME around the time of the album’s release, guitarist Jamie MacColl explained that the group prefers to focus on new ideas rather than look back too much at the past.
“I think nostalgia is the enemy of creativity and progress, to be honest. I think with the way streaming works, so much of the music ecosystem now services nostalgia so I think you have to constantly fight against that,” he said.
“We were a teenage band that a lot of people grew up with as teenagers, which is a very important phase in people’s lives and then we went on hiatus for five years. So we’re kind of stuck in time for some people, to some extent, which makes it even more important to emphasise there is something worthwhile now with the band.”
