Sophie Ellis-Bextor is bringing her Christmas Kitchen Disco back to the UK next winter, with 17 dates across November and December 2027, building to a finale at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 15 December.
The glitterball starts spinning at Glasgow’s Armadillo on Sunday 21 November, then Sophie heads to Edinburgh, Bradford, Brighton, Bournemouth, Ipswich, Sheffield, Gateshead, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Bristol, Swansea, Portsmouth and Nottingham before the capital. The show will mix festive disco favourites with her own hits, and a 2027 Christmas Disco album is due closer to the time.
O2 presale opens at 10am on Wednesday 18 November, followed by Ticketmaster and venue presale at 10am on Thursday 19 November. General sale is at 10am on Friday 20 November, with tickets via this page on Ticketmaster.
Fans who want earlier access can pre-order Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Christmas Disco from the official store before 10am GMT on Monday 16 November. A unique code and link will be emailed by 5pm that day, ahead of a ticket pre-sale at 10am on Tuesday 17 November. The limit is six tickets per person, and entry does not guarantee a ticket.
Her previous Christmas Kitchen Disco tour in 2023 sold out across the UK. The Guardian called it “an enjoyably merry spectacle” and The i called it “the most festive of shows”. This time around, The Guardian has already branded the return “the festive season starts here”, with The i Paper calling her “an expert curator of good times”, The London Standard praising the “inclusive fun”, and The Telegraph describing “an unabashedly feel good show”.
“I absolutely love Christmas and so it makes me very happy to announce a UK Christmas tour in 2027 where the band and I will once again be bringing the seasonal cheer to a venue near you,” she said. “Gloriously, that is not all! I am also releasing my Christmas Disco album which I am thrilled about. As someone who wears tinsel all year long anyway, this all feels very me and very exciting. So much to share with you all!”
The career behind the tinsel is long. She first topped the UK charts as the voice of Spiller’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love), and her hits include Take Me Home, Get Over You and Murder on the Dancefloor. The latter found a huge new audience after Saltburn, giving her a first Billboard Hot 100 entry, a spot on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, her own BBC One New Year’s Eve Disco, a set on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, and a return to No.2 in the UK. It was the 16th biggest song of 2024, and the biggest of that year for a British female artist, and has now passed 11 billion global streams.
Her Kitchen Disco livestreams turned living rooms into dancefloors, and she now presents Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco on BBC Radio 2, alongside the podcast Spinning Plates, now in its 19th series. She has six top 10 albums and eight top 10 singles across more than 25 years.
Her eighth album, Perimenopop, through Decca, became her highest-charting album in over a decade, and the tour that followed included her largest UK headline show to date at the Royal Albert Hall. This summer she and the band played Hampton Court Palace Festival, Wychwood, GuilFest, Galway International Arts Festival and Live at Tileyard North, having played Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage in 2023. Festival bills have kept coming too, from Splendour to Big Feastival.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Christmas Kitchen Disco UK Tour 2027
- 21 November, Glasgow Armadillo
- 22 November, Edinburgh Usher Hall
- 23 November, Bradford Live
- 26 November, Brighton Centre
- 27 November, Bournemouth BIC
- 28 November, Ipswich Regent Theatre
- 1 December, Sheffield City Hall
- 2 December, Gateshead Glasshouse
- 4 December, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
- 5 December, Birmingham Symphony Hall
- 6 December, Manchester Bridgewater Hall
- 8 December, York Barbican
- 10 December, Bristol Beacon
- 11 December, Swansea Building Society Arena
- 12 December, Portsmouth Guildhall
- 13 December, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
- 15 December, London Royal Albert Hall
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