Olivia Dean, Spiritualized and The K’s lead the new big names announced for the BRITs Week 2026 War Child gigs – find tickets here.
They join the likes of Fatboy Slim, Lambrini Girls and BRITs Critics’ Choice award winner Jacob Alon in getting involved in the shows.
Spiritualized are set to play EartH in London on February 18, with The K’s at Manchester’s Gorilla two days later, and five-time BRIT Award nominee Dean playing Albert Hall, also in Manchester, on February 26.
The first wave of support acts have also been announced, with Bimini, Max Jones, Delilah and Alexandria, Olive F, Gabriella Cilmi, Saint Raymond and CARI all set to join the shows.
This year’s War Child shows were first announced earlier this month. Delivered by DHL, the annual event takes place in the run-up to the BRIT Awards, and sees huge names play intimate one-off shows to help raise funds and awareness for the War Child charity.
The non-profit provides protection, education and mental health support for children affected by war, with all proceeds from the shows going towards its work.
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This year, the BRIT Awards ceremony will be heading to Manchester on February 28 – the first time it has been held outside of London in nearly five decades – and the War Child shows will take place across the country in the run up to the event, kicking off on February 12 with Fatboy Slim supported by Max Jones in Newcastle.
BRITs Week 26 for War Child line-up is:
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12 – Fatboy Slim – Boiler Shop, Newcastle (supported by Max Jones)
16 – Lambrini Girls – The Garage, London (supported by Bimini)
18 – Spiritualized – EartH Theatre, London
20 – The K’s – Gorilla, Manchester
24 – Myles Smith – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (supported by Saint Raymond)
25 – Jack Savoretti and Katherine Jenkins OBE – Emerald Theatre, London (supported by Gabriele Cilmi)
25 – kwn – Patterns, Brighton (supported by Cari)
25 – Josh Baker – YES, Manchester (supported by Delilah and Alexandria)
26 – Rossi. – YES, Manchester (Olive F)
26 – Olivia Dean – Albert Hall, Manchester
27 – Jacob Alon – Music Hall at Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
For the three newly announced shows, fans can sign up to the War Child presale here before 3pm on Wednesday (January 28). Presale then begins at 10am the following day, before general sale begins at 10am on Friday (January 30) – get tickets here. Fans can also enter £10 prize draws to win tickets to all shows here.
Also for War Child, Arctic Monkeys shared their first new song in four years last week. The Sheffield icons released ‘Opening Night’ as the first song from the all-star new War Child album ‘Help(2)’.
Last Thursday (January 22), the song was shared alongside all the details of the new collaborative album inspired by War Child’s landmark 1995 ‘HELP’ record. Alongside Alex Turner and co’s first material since 2022’s ‘The Car‘, the album also features Anna Calvi, Arlo Parks, Arooj Aftab, Bat For Lashes, Beabadoobee, Beck, Portishead‘s Beth Gibbons, Big Thief, Black Country, New Road, Cameron Winter, Blur’s Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon, Depeche Mode, Dove Ellis, Wolf Alice‘s Ellie Rowsell, English Teacher, Ezra Collective, Foals, Fontaines D.C. and frontman Grian Chatten, Greentea Peng, Kae Tempest, King Krule, Nilüfer Yanya, Olivia Rodrigo, Pulp, Sampha, The Last Dinner Party, Wet Leg, The Smiths‘ icon Johnny Marr and Young Fathers.
Despite such a stacked line-up, however, producer James Ford said in an interview last week that some artists refused to be involved in the project – which came about due to the severity of the crises in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Syria – as they thought it was “too political”.
“Obviously, a lot of people I know and I’ve worked with were easy targets, so we started with them: Fontaines D.C., Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, Pulp and people like that,” Ford told The Guardian.
He added that curating the record was “actually a great insight into the industry: which people are willing to do something. People who you’d think would be into it flat-out refused because they saw it as too political or something like that. It was fascinating.”
