The Everybody Scream Tour is a concert tour by English band Florence and the Machine, staged in support of their sixth studio album, Everybody Scream (2025). Set to visit Europe and North America, it began on 6 February 2026 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and will conclude on 30 August 2026 in Reading, England. The show features songs from Everybody Scream and the band's previous albums exploring themes of grief, hope, and folklore. The band is supported by an ensemble staging folk-horror-inspired performances. The tour received positive reviews praising lead singer Florence Welch's performance and voice.
"The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death [..] And I felt like I had stepped through this door, and it was just full of women, screaming."
English band Florence and the Machine announced in August 2025 that they would released their sixth studio album, Everybody Scream, on 31 October 2025 and tour several countries in Europe to promote it, with Paris Paloma as the main supporting act and Dionne joining as the opening act for four dates in the United Kingdom..[2][3][4] The band's lead singer and songwriter, Florence Welch, conceived the album after suffering a miscarriage caused by an ectopic pregnancy while touring in 2023.[3][5] Welch visited a folk healer and began researching the history of witchcraft and its connection to midwifery.[1] She commented, "Modern medicine absolutely saved my life, but you can't go anywhere about birth without finding witchcraft and magic and medicine."[1]Everybody Scream's themes and inspirations include mysticism, folk horror, womanhood, partnership, ageing, and dying.[3] On the record, Welch also deals with "the limits of her body", the meaning of being "healed", and her struggles and sacrifices as a woman in the music industry.[1][3]
Tickets for the tour went on sale to the general public on 5 September 2025, while presale tickets became available on 3 September 2025.[3] In October 2025, the band announced the dates for the North American leg and a second European leg of the tour, with the latter primarily taking place at outdoor music festivals in the summer of 2026.[6][7][8]Rachel Chinouriri, Sofia Isella, CMAT, and Mannequin Pussy will alternate as the opening acts for the North American leg, while Chinouriri, Jacob Alon, and Self Esteem are set to be the supporting acts for the summer dates in Ireland and Scotland.[6][7] The tickets for the North American leg went on sale to the general public on 5 November 2025, while presale tickets became available on 3 November 2025.[9]
Synopsis
The stage is initially draped in a curtain illustrated with medicinal herbs and illuminated by an orange light.[5] A shifting spotlight shows the shadow of a woman "maybe being mauled", which The Times's Lisa Verrico compared to the shower scene from the horror film Psycho (1960).[10] When the curtain is raised, Welch appears wearing a floor-length gothic lace gown with a ruffled skirt and draped sleeves.[5][10][11] She performs barefoot center stage while the band stays in the shadows.[10][11] The set list includes mostly songs from Everybody Scream and some songs from the band's previous albums with similar themes related to grief, hope, and folklore.[5] The accompaniment shifts from a full band to "sometimes just drums and [...] synths, occasionally only acoustic guitar and [...] harp".[10] Welch often dances and runs on stage throughout the concert, accompanied by a performance group, named the Witch Choir, made up of four women.[5][10] The Witch Choir wear cloaks, petticoats, and heavy boots.[10] They act both as backup dancers and singers depending on the song.[10] The folk-horror-inspired dance performances were choreographed by Ryan Heffington.[5][11]The Independent's Blue Kirkhope compared the Witch Choir "twitch[ing], snap[ping], and fold[ing] into positions" to scenes from the folk horror film Suspiria (1977).[5]
Reception
Welch (pictured) received praise for her performance.
Ahead of the start of the Everybody Scream Tour, Pitchfork named it one of the most anticipated tours of 2026, describing the band's live performances as "a place for emotional liberation and musical catharsis" featuring "collective scream-alongs, hopeful manifestations, and a resounding belief that good will trump evil".[12]
Journalists' responses to the concert and Welch's performance in Glasgow were positive. Kirkhope praised Welch's "gale-force" and "enchanting" voice and gave the show five out of five stars, describing it as "less a concert than a communal ceremony" with "Welch and the audience bound together in a shared act of catharsis".[5] Verrico said that "Florence and the Machine [had] never been less than spectacular live" and described Welch as "more relaxed" compared to the band's previous tours, remarking that "Everybody Scream [...] suggested that the singer [had] finally got to grips with fame".[10]The Guardian's Katie Hawthorne praised Welch's commanding performance and "transfixing" voice and gave the "high-drama" concert four out of five stars, but remarked that it "threaten[ed] to overwhelm" with the Witch Choir's intense performance.[11]
Set list
This set list is from the concert in Belfast on 6 February 2026.[13] It does not represent all concerts throughout the tour.
At the concerts in Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Manchester, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Cologne, "Never Let Me Go" replaced "You Can Have It All"[14][15]
At the concerts in Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam and Cologne, “Hunger" replaced "Music by Men".[16]
Tour dates
List of 2026 concerts, showing date, city, country, venue and opening acts[3][4][6][7][8]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
