Pigeon

Announce UK headline shows for January including London’s Village Underground on 28 January

New video for current single “Future Country”

This is a sound that we are digging at DeClunk HQ. Is Pigeon the first band that have gone to the future and come back again?

Cosmic exploration. Spiritual transformation. Unbridled spontaneity. These are the guiding principles that continue to propel Pigeon into ever wider orbit. Following the release of their acclaimed debut album OUTTANATIONAL, out now via Memphis Industries, the Margate-rooted psychedelic five-piece today announce a run of UK headline dates for January 2027 with a London show at Village Underground on 28 January, alongside a brand new video for current single “Future Country”, upcoming festival appearances, a major support tour with Duran Duran and a debut performance on Later… with Jools Holland on 7 June.

Already hailed by The Times as “the most exciting band in years”, Pigeon have rapidly established themselves as one of the UK’s most compelling new live acts. Their debut album OUTTANATIONAL, recorded between Margate’s Albion Rooms and Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate, is an expansive, groove-driven exploration of belonging, identity and collective energy, drawing together afro-disco, krautrock, punk-funk, post-punk and free-form improvisation into something entirely their own.

Central to the band’s sound is vocalist and percussionist Falle Nioke, whose extraordinary voice, rooted in the West African griot tradition, moves instinctively between English, French, Susu, Fulani, Malinke and Coniagui. Written during his naturalisation process after relocating from Guinea-Conakry to the UK, OUTTANATIONAL wrestles with questions of home and migration while remaining defiantly joyful and celebratory.

Alongside today’s tour announcement, Pigeon share a new video for album highlight “Future Country”. A jerky, percussion-heavy burst of mutant disco and punk-funk, the track imagines the immigration process centuries into the future, turning uncertainty into something ecstatic, communal and dancefloor-ready.

The band’s Tom Dream said the following about the accompanying video:

“It’s a fake TV news documentary investigating the growing crisis of bands illegally immigrating to the future because there’s no work left in the present.

Shot in a dead-serious current affairs GB NEWS style, the video follows the band travelling through illegal time portals while paying immigration officers to get to their destination of Margate 2126, where basically nothing has changed. Meanwhile, angry future citizens complain about young men ‘coming over here’ and taking the jobs of the bands that are local to their era. ‘We’ve already got enough bands here’ ‘You’ve got to send them back’ and ‘Why don’t the French stop them’. They complain. The film mixes DIY sci fi drama with real street vox pops asking people how they feel about bands coming over here and making too much noise/ ruining everything for everyone.”

Pigeon’s momentum continues to build, with the band set to join pop icons Duran Duran for a string of arena dates across the UK and Ireland this October. Pigeon will also make their debut appearance on Later… with Jools Holland on 7 June, bringing their electrifying live show to TV audiences for the first time.

Following sold-out London and Bristol headline shows this December, the band return to the road in January 2027 for their biggest headline tour to date.

LIVE

2026
02 August – Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
15 October – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK w/ Duran Duran
18 October – SSE Arena, Belfast, UK w/ Duran Duran
20 October – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, UK w/ Duran Duran
23 October – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK w/ Duran Duran
24 October – First Direct Bank Arena, Leeds, UK w/ Duran Duran
07 November – Sonic City, Kortrijk, Belgium
02 December – The Dome, London, UK (SOLD OUT)
03 December – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK (SOLD OUT)

2027
07 January – The Drill Shed, Margate, UK
21 January – The Lantern, Bristol, UK
22 January – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
23 January – YES Pink Room, Manchester, UK
28 January – Village Underground, London, UK
29 January – Bodega, Nottingham, UK
30 January – Arts Centre, Norwich, UK

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