The Wonder Stuff

When: 14th October 2026
Location: Barrowland Ballroom

The Wonder Stuff have announced an extensive UK tour for October 2026, celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. Coming to Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on 14th October 2026.

The Wonder Stuff’s long-time line-up of Miles Hunt (vocals/guitar), Malc Treece (guitar/vocals), Erica Nockalls (violin/vocals), Mark Gemini Thwaite (guitar), Tim Sewell (bass) and Pete Howard (drums) will perform a career-spanning sets, including hits singles and fan favourites such as ‘Unbearable’, ‘A Wish Away’, ‘Caught In My Shadow’, ‘Size Of A Cow’, and ‘Don’t Let Me Know Down’, ‘Gently’, amongst many others.

Special guests Inspiral Carpets will be joining them on the 16-date run tour which will begin in Newcastle on 1 October, and includes further dates Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Brighton, Bournemouth, Margate, Glasgow, Cardiff, Leeds, Leicester, Scarborough, Norwich, Lincoln, Wolverhampton  and Liverpool, before ending the year with a date at London’s Brixton Academy on 8 December.

Looking ahead to the tour, Miles Hunt said: “When the original line-up of The Wonder Stuff first rehearsed together on 19 March 1986 – 40 years ago – I wonder what our thoughts might have been if Malc Treece and I knew that we would be fortunate enough to still be playing gigs together now?

“Whatever those scruffy young fellas would have thought I can tell you now, all these years later, both of us are incredibly grateful to all of the audiences that have stuck with us these past four decades. And it shall be our absolute honour to get up on stage this year and play as many of the old faves as we can to those wonderful people. We are blessed.”

Formed in the Black Country area in 1986, The Wonder Stuff signed to Polydor Records in 1987 and released four Top 20 albums between 1988 and 1994 – The Eight Legged Groove Machine in 1988 (No.19), HUP in 1989 (No.5), Never Loved Elvis in 1991 (No.3) and Construction For The Modern Idiot in 1993 (No.4).

In addition, the band enjoyed 13 Top 40 singles, including collaborations with Kirsty MacColl on ‘Welcome To The Cheap Seats’ and the No.1 single with comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, ‘Dizzy’.

After initially disbanded following their headline set at the Phoenix Festival in 1994, The Wonder Stuff reformed in 2000 to play five sold-out nights at London’s Forum Theatre, and have since released five studios albums, with their most recent being 2016’s Better Than Being Lucky.