Muse will headline American Express presents Roundhay Festival at Roundhay Park, Leeds, on Sunday 27 June 2027. Nothing But Thieves are the first special guests named for the day. The full line-up is still to come.
The Teignmouth band will close the festival’s second edition. Organisers are billing it as their first global headliner after a debut they called triumphant. Muse will also headline BST Hyde Park in London the day before, on Saturday 26 June 2027. Tickets for that show go on general sale at the same time.
The American Express pre-sale opened at 10am today, Monday 9 November. An artist pre-sale follows at 10am on Wednesday 11 November, then an AEG pre-sale at 10am on Thursday 12 November. General sale is 10am on Friday 13 November. Tickets are at roundhayfestival.com.
Roundhay Festival is a one-day event in the park, presented by American Express and run by AEG Presents. Social channels are already live on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook under roundhayfestival.
Jim King, CEO of AEG Presents UK and European Festivals, said the return follows the first year at Roundhay Park. “We’re delighted to be returning to Leeds with one of the most incredible live bands in the world. Muse’s legendary outdoor performances and unrivalled production values continue to set the benchmark for live music, and we’re thrilled to welcome them to Roundhay for what promises to be a truly spectacular event.”
The debut landed in July 2026, after AEG launched Roundhay Festival with Leeds City Council in 2025. Pitbull and Lewis Capaldi were among the names who played that first edition. The park has a much longer concert history, including Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Genesis, U2 and Ed Sheeran.
Muse formed in Teignmouth, Devon, in 1994. Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard have built a live show around huge productions and songs including Plug In Baby, Time Is Running Out, Supermassive Black Hole and Uprising. The Grammy-winning trio are one of the UK’s most recognisable rock bands of the past two decades.
Their tenth album, The Wow! Signal, came out in June 2026 and went straight to Number 1 on the UK Official Albums Chart, an eighth consecutive chart-topper. NME called it the band’s “best album in 20 years”. It was produced with Dan Lancaster and Aleks Von Korff, recorded in part at Abbey Road, and includes Unravelling, Be With You, Cryogen, Hexagons and Nightshift Superstar, plus Hush, a duet with Ellie Goulding.
The Wow! Signal Tour has already taken in an album launch at Brixton Academy in April and a North American run that closed at the Hollywood Bowl. The European arena leg reaches the UK next month, with two nights each at Manchester’s Co-op Live and London’s The O2. After Leeds, Muse are also due to headline Rock Werchter on Friday 2 July 2027.
Leeds is not new ground. Muse played the Town & Country Club in 1999, the Duchess of York in 2000 and Leeds University Union’s Refectory in 2001, then made several appearances at Leeds Festival, including headline sets. Organisers say this is the first time in a decade the band have been welcomed back to the city.
Nothing But Thieves formed in Southend in 2012. The band have four UK Top 10 albums, a first Number 1 with 2023’s Dead Club City, 1.2 million album sales, and sold-out shows at Wembley Arena. Latest album Stray Dogs came out in September. It was started at Angelic Studios in Banbury, the same room used for their 2015 debut, and is pitched as a rawer, more chaotic record built around the live show they have developed over more than a decade.
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