Bleachers

Bleachers are playing two nights at the Eventim Apollo on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December, both starting at 19:00. The London dates are part of their 2026 UK and European tour, which they've billed as their biggest European headline run to date, and they're out on the road to support the new album, Everyone for ten minutes.

If you're not familiar with the name, Bleachers is the solo project of Jack Antonoff, the New Jersey songwriter who's spent the last decade shaping a good deal of modern pop. In 2017 alone, he co-wrote the majority of Lorde's Melodrama and Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do, and co-produced St. Vincent's Masseducation. He also fronts the band fun., so he's as comfortable leading a group as he is working behind the scenes for other artists.

As a project, Bleachers draws on his love of John Hughes-style synth-pop, and the songs are built around big, hooky choruses. The music is described as sonically sad yet joyful — the kind of thing that works for driving to, crying to, and dancing to at weddings. It's that mix of the upbeat and the melancholy that gives the project its character, and it's what they'll be leaning into across these two nights.

They're coming off a UK Top 5 album in March 2024, so the new material from Everyone for ten minutes will sit alongside songs from their recent run. The venue is the Eventim Apollo, also known as the Hammersmith Apollo, at 45 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9QH. It holds around 3,500 seated in the stalls and up to 5,000 standing, so it's a proper room for a show like this. Both nights start at 19:00.