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Monday, 1st December 2025: Arizona rock icons Jimmy Eat World have announced their live return to the UK with three huge outdoor headline shows taking place in August 2026, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic fourth studio album, Bleed American. The exclusive UK/EU Bleed American shows kick off on 14th August at The Piece Hall, Halifax, heading to Cardiff Castle on 15th August, culminating on 16th August with their biggest ever UK show to date at London’s Gunnersbury Park.
Jimmy Eat World will be joined by special guests Rise Against, The Get Up Kids and Jay Som (Jay Som performing in Cardiff and London only). Artist presale begins on Tuesday 2nd December at 10am GMT – fans can sign up at jimmyeatworld.com. Tickets go on general sale from Friday 5 December at 10am GMT.
The shows will be the first chance for UK fans to see Jimmy Eat World perform Bleed American in full, in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Fans can also expect to hear rarities and hits from across the band’s catalogue, presented with a bigger production than ever before.
Bleed American stands as a landmark album that helped push alternative rock into the mainstream, cementing Jimmy Eat World as pioneering artists of the 00s music scene. The album has been certified Platinum in the US and Gold in the UK, with the essential single “The Middle” surpassing 1 Billion streams on Spotify, placing it in the Billion Streams Club. The record was not only a commercial breakthrough but also a creative touchstone for a new wave of bands, with artists including Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday and The Wonder Years citing the album as a major influence. “The Middle” has also been covered by the likes of Prince and Taylor Swift. The iconic album artwork showing a set of bowling trophies sitting on top of a cigarette machine was taken from revered American photographer William Eggleston’s photograph “Memphis”, chosen by vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jim Adkins to cover the album, as a big fan of Eggleston’s work.
Jim Adkins says: “When we printed the last mix of Bleed American, we felt like we had achieved something great for ourselves. There was no barometer of how it would connect with people outside of the studio and we are still in awe with the life the record and songs have had since their original release. Bleed American is as much yours as it is ours, so we want to celebrate it with you all in a very special way.”
The news arrives amidst a year of exciting live activity which saw Jimmy Eat World deliver an acclaimed set at Download Festival, an unforgettable North American tour as special guests to The Offspring, and perform at several festivals including Sonic Temple, Welcome To Rockville, Four Chord Music Festival, Furnace Fest and Best Friends Forever.
Whilst the band are currently in the studio working on new music, today’s announcement follows the release of the band’s Something(s) Loud EP on 14th November. The release marked the vinyl debuts of formerly digital-only singles “Something Loud,” (described by The Guardian as “arguably Jimmy Eat World’s best track in years”), “Place Your Debts,” and a cover of Crooked Fingers’ “Call to Love” (featuring Bethany Cosentino), along with an acoustic version of “Something Loud” and a TW Walsh remix of “Place Your Debts.” The EP also features the never-before-released track, “Failure,” originally recorded in 2019 for the Surviving sessions, co-produced by Jimmy Eat World and Justin Meldal Johnsen and engineered/mixed by the band Failure’s co-founder and vocalist, Ken Andrews. Order the EP from the Jimmy Eat World store HERE.
Stay tuned to JimmyEatWorld.com for more big plans coming from the band in 2026!
AUGUST 2026 HEADLINE UK TOUR DATES
14 August – Halifax, The Piece Hall
15 August – Cardiff Castle*
16 August – London, Gunnersbury Park
*with Jay Som
ABOUT JIMMY EAT WORLD:
Jimmy Eat World are one of the most successful alternative-rock bands of their generation. An unbroken line up since 1993, Jim Adkins (vocals/guitar), Tom Linton (guitar), Rick Burch (bass), and Zach Lind (drums) have been shaping alternative rock ever since meeting at high school in Mesa, Arizona. Their 2001 breakthrough record Bleed American is regarded as a classic and pioneering album. Their hit single “The Middle” topped Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, hit the U.S. Hot 100’s Top 5, remained for 33 weeks, went platinum, and most recently joined Spotify’s Billions Club. 2004’s Futures earned Jimmy Eat World’s second Billboard Alternative Airplay No. 1 single, “Pain.” 2007’s Chase This Light hit a new commercial peak, their highest-charting album at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. Their tenth album, 2019’s Surviving, earned critical acclaim and later anchored Phoenix Sessions, the band’s 2021 global streaming series that also featured full-album performances of Futures and Clarity (available on YouTube here). Over nearly three decades, Jimmy Eat World have racked up close to 1,000 shows worldwide.
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