Embrace

Embrace play The Engine Shed on Thursday 29 April, their first time back at the venue in twenty years. It's part of the celebrations for their 30th anniversary, which they've spent the last year marking with headline shows, festival dates, a spoken-word theatre tour, a new book, and their ninth studio album, Avalanche, released on 12 June 2026 on Cooking Vinyl. Singer Danny McNamara called Avalanche the band's most honest and open record to date, and it'll be a good chunk of the night.

If you're coming to them late, it helps to know where they fit in. They first rose to prominence with their 1998 debut The Good Will Out, one of the biggest-selling debut albums by a British artist, and have since gone on to three UK number one albums. Over three decades they've sold more than two million albums worldwide, and they've kept the same line-up throughout: Mike Heaton, Richard McNamara, Steve Firth, Danny McNamara and Mickey Dale. That's the same five on stage in Lincoln as on the first record.

Because it's been exactly twenty years since they last played The Engine Shed, they're doing something a bit specific with the tickets: they've set the Early Bird price at the same rate as that first night. General Admission is £39.20 including fees (£35.00 face value, £4.20 booking fee), and Early Bird is £22.40 including fees (£20.00 face value, £2.40 booking fee). Doors open at 19:00 at The Engine Shed, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN67TS.