In The Dark opens its first UK tour tomorrow at Bristol Cathedral, and has added 12 dates that keep the darkness concerts on the road until Coventry Cathedral on 20 February 2027. The extra stops follow last week’s first UK tour announcement, which had left later dates still to come.
The show runs for 70 minutes, performed entirely in the dark. A company of 30 musicians and vocalists moves silently through the room, unamplified, around, through and among a seated audience wearing eye masks. There is no stage and no lighting. With sight taken out of it, the sound becomes a moving 360 wall of live music that swells and recedes around every seat.
Most of the country gets HUSH, the existing show, built around slowing down and switching off the outside world. Arrangements draw on songs by Sigur Rós, Coldplay, Ólafur Arnalds, Mumford & Sons and others. London dates debut PULSE, a new production made for the tour. It is more propulsive and rhythm driven, from the same musicians, with reworkings of songs by M83, Nils Frahm, The Cinematic Orchestra, Bon Iver and Peter Gabriel.
The 2026 leg calls at Bristol Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral, St Albans Cathedral, All Saints Hove, Tewkesbury Abbey and Guildford Cathedral, alongside London dates at St John’s Hyde Park, Southwark Cathedral and St Andrew’s Holborn. Holborn is already on the diary, after a January run at Holborn. It returns on 26 November, this time for PULSE.
The new 2027 dates are all HUSH. They take the show to Salisbury Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, Lichfield Cathedral, Stoke Kings Hall, Rochester Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral, Lancing College, King’s Lynn Minster, Beverley Minster and Coventry Cathedral. Each of those dates has a matinee and an evening performance.
These buildings are part of the show. Centuries old and built to carry sound, each room’s acoustic shapes the music as much as the players do.
Earlier performances have drawn strong reviews. The Telegraph called it “a musical experience cleverly contrived to engender mystical feelings.” Schön! Magazine wrote that “for Londoners convinced they have seen all the city offers, the best new evening in town involves seeing nothing at all.” OK! Magazine said there is “something rather special about an evening where the only thing to do is close your eyes, and listen.” Original Magazine noted that “it is rare to find an event that feels suitable to all.”
Andrea Cockerton founded In The Dark in Cambridge in 2017. Sold out early shows grew into a full London season in 2024, played by musicians drawn from the West End, the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and other leading institutions. That season won the Offies Assessors’ Choice award. The company has since presented more than 60 performances to over 12,000 people.
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2026 tour dates
- 29 October: Bristol Cathedral (HUSH)
- 30 October: St John’s Hyde Park, London (PULSE)
- 31 October: St John’s Hyde Park, London (PULSE)
- 7 November: Southwark Cathedral, London (PULSE)
- 12 November: Chichester Cathedral (HUSH)
- 13 November: St Albans Cathedral (HUSH)
- 14 November: All Saints Hove (HUSH)
- 26 November: St Andrew’s Holborn, London (PULSE)
- 10 December: St John’s Hyde Park, London (PULSE)
- 11 December: St John’s Hyde Park, London (PULSE)
- 12 December: Tewkesbury Abbey (HUSH)
- 17 December: Guildford Cathedral (HUSH)
2027 tour dates
- 7 January: Salisbury Cathedral (HUSH)
- 14 January: Chester Cathedral (HUSH)
- 15 January: Lichfield Cathedral (HUSH)
- 16 January: Stoke Kings Hall (HUSH)
- 23 January: Rochester Cathedral (HUSH)
- 29 January: Gloucester Cathedral (HUSH)
- 5 February: Norwich Cathedral (HUSH)
- 6 February: Peterborough Cathedral (HUSH)
- 17 February: Lancing College (HUSH)
- 18 February: King’s Lynn Minster (HUSH)
- 19 February: Beverley Minster (HUSH)
- 20 February: Coventry Cathedral (HUSH)
Image credits: James Clifford
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