Emeli Sandé announces 24-date tour for 15th anniversary of debut album

Emeli Sandé has announced a 24-date UK and European tour celebrating 15 years of her debut album Our Version of Events, performing the record in full alongside her greatest hits.

The February and March 2027 run takes in rooms including London’s Palladium, Manchester Opera House, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Paris’ Salle Pleyel. Our Version of Events was the biggest selling album in the UK in both 2012 and 2013, going eight times platinum, selling more than five million copies worldwide and winning British Album of the Year at the 2013 BRIT Awards.

Tickets go on sale at 9am BST (10am CEST) on Friday 11 September via Emeli Sandé’s Linktree.

The tour opens at Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre on Tuesday 2 February and finishes at Casino Bern on Tuesday 9 March. UK dates also include York Barbican, Sheffield City Hall, Gateshead’s Glasshouse, Oxford New Theatre, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Bath Forum, Cardiff New Theatre, Nottingham Royal Concert Hall and Southend’s Cliffs Pavilion.

The album’s standout tracks include “Next to Me”, “Read All About It (Pt. III)” and “Clown”. “Next to Me” won two Ivor Novello Awards, while the record spent 66 consecutive weeks in the UK Official Albums Chart Top 10, beating the 62-week run of The Beatles’ Please Please Me for the longest unbroken Top 10 stay by a debut album.

Sandé has sold millions of albums worldwide, won four BRIT Awards and received an MBE for services to music. She has written for Rihanna, Katy Perry and Alicia Keys, and performed at both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

She remains busy on the live circuit in 2026, including a performance at BBC Radio 2 in the Park alongside Chaka Khan, Lulu and The Script. A special gold vinyl edition of Our Version of Events will also come out on 17 October 2026 as part of National Album Day’s Icons theme, with UK vinyl pre orders open now.

Born and raised in rural Aberdeenshire, the daughter of a Zambian father and a mother from a Cumbrian family, Sandé began writing songs as a teenager and later studied medicine at the University of Glasgow before leaving to pursue music. A move to London led to a writing partnership with Naughty Boy, and her first major breakthrough came in 2009 when she co wrote and sang on Chipmunk’s “Diamond Rings”, a UK Top 10 hit, before featuring on Wiley’s “Never Be Your Woman”.

Later albums Long Live The Angels, Real Life, Let’s Say For Instance and How Were We To Know have seen her keep shifting sound and subject matter, from love and identity to resilience and self acceptance, while holding on to the vocal style that first made her a household name.

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