Today, the award-winning British blues icon Robin Trower announces a run of UK tour dates for 2026, beginning in Sunderland (Old Fire Station) on August 31st and then calling through Edinburgh (Queens Hall), Manchester (Academy), Cambridge (Junction) and finishing on the 5th of September in London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
Planet Rock pre-sale tickets will go on sale at 9am GMT on Wednesday 11th March here
General sale tickets go live on Friday 13th March at 9am here
The evergreen musician has been in an incredibly rich vein of form in recent years with a slew of acclaimed studio albums including ‘Come and Find Me‘(2025), ‘Joyful Sky‘ (2023),’No More Worlds To Conquer‘ (2022) and ‘Coming Closer To The Day‘ (2019).
This years’ latest release ‘One Moment In Time: Live In The USA‘ showcases Trower in full flight and the perfect appetiser to delve into ahead of his tour. The album was recorded during his Summer 2025 USA tour at the setlist whistlestop tour of Trower’s fabled career, the bluesman dropped roaring renditions of ‘Too Rolling Stoned‘, ‘Day of the Eagle‘ and of course his pièce de résistance, ‘Bridge of Sighs‘. Trower is no heritage artist, and the cheers are just as loud for the four songs from ‘No More Worlds To Conquer‘, not to mention his stalking take on ‘One Go Round‘ (from ‘Come And Find Me‘).
Talking about live shows he says, “I prefer this format because I have more freedom,” he explains. “In a three-piece, everybody is trying to make up for the missing instrument. We’ve got Richard Watts on bass and vocals: a wonderful voice, great musician. Then there’s Chris Taggart on drums, another fantastic musician. I’m very fortunate to play with guys of this calibre. We’ve been working together now for a good ten years. They have to watch me a bit, because obviously I’m leading and they have to follow – but they do a brilliant job.”
For Trower, the big time beckoned in 1967 when he joined ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale‘ hitmakers Procol Harum, and many guitarists would have clung to that enviable position for life. Trower acknowledges his good fortune at being at the epicentre of that late-’60s youthquake (“I still think it was the epitome of UK popular music and rock ‘n’ roll”). But Procol’s band dynamic could never contain all his ideas, and after five acclaimed albums, Trower rolled the dice on a solo career.
Needless to say, the history books have vindicated him. By 1974, Trower was a major star in the land whose music had inspired him, with ‘Bridge Of Sighs’ heavy soul achieving Gold US sales and influencing future luminaries like Steve Lukather, Metallica and countless more. Yet the veteran doesn’t dine out on ‘Bridge Of Sighs’ – or his other hit albums of the late-’70s like For Earth Below, Long Misty Days and In City Dreams – preferring to march ever onward. Over the past decade you’ll find projects from 2020’s United State Of Mind supergroup alongside Maxi Priest to the recent run of studio albums released on the Provogue label.
Sit back and immerse yourself in the beauty that is’ One Moment In Time: Live In The USA‘ and then go to experience a legend in the flesh, live and drink in every moment. There is nothing quite like live music.
His New Album ‘One Moment In Time: Live In The USA‘ is out now via Artone / Provogue.
Order/Listen – here
Tickets – here
Tour Dates:
Monday August 31st – Sunderland, Firestation
Tuesday September 1st – Edinburgh, Queens Hall
Thursday September 3rd – Manchester Academy 2
Friday September 4th – Cambridge, Junction
Saturday September 5th – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
