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Shed Seven add instore shows after speedy sell-outs as new single The Centre of My Everything adds strings to their bow

Selling fast: Shed Seven’s instore tour itinerary

“WE are lost for words,” say Shed Seven. “Most of our January instore shows sold out in seconds.”

Their reaction? “We’re absolutely blown away. Thank you so much to everyone who bought an album and is coming along to celebrate with us. It genuinely means the world.

“The response has been so incredible that we’ve managed to add extra matinee performances: January 8, Rough Trade, Bristol; January 10, Rough Trade East London; January 11, Rough Trade, Nottingham, and January 12, Wax & Beans, Bury.”

The York band’s statement continues: “A very small number of tickets remain for HMV in-stores in Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. If you missed out first time around, now’s your chance…

“We loved every minute of our last record shop tour and, after that response, we already know these are going to be something special.”

Tickets for the Sheds’ instore tour of stripped-back performances and signings went on sale at 10am this morning. Entry is available by pre-ordering a copy of January 8 2027’s new album, Shed Seven, from the selected retailer hosting each event at https://s7.lnk.to/s7instores.

To coincide with the ticket launch, the Sheds have released new single The Centre Of My Everything, ahead of next year’s arrival of their self-titled seventh studio album on Cooking Vinyl. Pre-orders can be made at https://s7.lnk.to/shedseven.

This follows the album’s lead single, Stand Together, a “muscular, sky-scraping” song that was added quickly to radio playlists. Now, The Centre Of My Everything shows another side of the upcoming album, calling on sweeping strings and a rousing chorus to deliver “one of the most widescreen songs of their career”.

Lead singer Rick Witter comments on the feeling behind the song: “That feeling when love is all there is, when two are entwined as one, when nothing else matters apart from the other, when you can’t imagine a life lived alone, when you truly think of someone as being The Centre Of My Everything.” Listen to the track at https://s7.lnk.to/myeverythingPR.

The Sheds originally announced Up Close & Intimate Album Release Tour 2027 dates at: Rough Trade, Bristol, January 8; Vinolo, Southampton (matinee), January 9; Rough Trade East, London, January 10; Rough Trade, Nottingham, January 11; Wax & Beans, Bury, January 12; Jacaranda, Liverpool, January 13; HMV Vault, Birmingham, January 14; HMV, Manchester, January 15, and HMV, Glasgow, January 16. Now the new shows have been added, as highlighted above.

Matinee idols: Shed Seven are adding more shows to their instore tour

This is the state of play on Shed Seven’s 2026 shows:

A Maximum High live dates

Oct 15 – Birmingham O2 Institute

Oct 16 – Kingston Circuit – SOLD OUT

Oct 17 – London Scala – SOLD OUT

Oct  29 – Northampton Roadmender – SOLD OUT

Oct  30 – Manchester Academy 2 – SOLD OUT

Oct 31 – Glasgow Barrowland – SOLD OUT

SHEDCEMBER X 2026 live dates

Nov 12 – Nottingham Rock City – LOW TICKETS

Nov 13 – Nottingham Rock City – SOLD OUT

Nov 14 – Birmingham O2 Academy 1 – SOLD OUT

Nov 16 – Blackburn King George’s Hall

Nov 17 – Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA – LOW TICKETS

Nov 19 – Aberdeen Music Hall – LOW TICKETS

Nov 20 – Glasgow O2 Academy – SOLD OUT

Nov 21 – Edinburgh Usher Hall – LOW TICKETS

Nov 23 – Leicester O2 Academy 1

Nov 24 – Brighton Dome

Nov 26 – Cardiff University Great Hall

Nov 27 – Sheffield Octagon – SOLD OUT

Nov 28 – Newcastle O2 City Hall – SOLD OUT

Nov 30 – Cambridge Corn Exchange – LOW TICKETS

Dec 1 – Bristol Beacon – LOW TICKETS

Dec 3- Stockton Globe

Dec 4 – Liverpool Uni The Mountford Hall – LOW TICKETS

Dec 5 – Manchester O2 Apollo – SOLD OUT

Dec 7- Lincoln Engine Shed

Dec 8 – Stoke-On-Trent Victoria Hall

Dec 10 – Bournemouth O2 Academy

Dec 11 – London O2 Brixton Academy – SOLD OUT

Dec 12 – Leeds O2 Academy – SOLD OUT

Dec 13 – Leeds O2 Academy – LOW TICKETS

The track listing for Shed Seven’s Shed Seven album will be: Stand Together; The Fifth Amendment; The Centre Of My Everything; Lost In Space (featuring Lotte Witter); Winter; We Got The Love (featuring Elles Bailey); What Becomes Of The Ones You Left Behind; Can’t Help It; Let The Good Times Roll and Drifting.

The Sheds will be seeking to match their achievements in 2024, when they topped the album charts for the first time in January that year with A Matter Of Time, followed only ten months later by a second number one with Liquid Gold, placing them alongside artists such as The Beatles, Elton John and David Bowie in notching two UK number one albums within a single calendar year.

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Shed Seven to release A Maximum Lo-Fi exclusive album to complement A Maximum High tour of intimate venues

Shed Seven: new albums and tours at the double. Picture: Tom Oxley

YORK’S most successful band, Shed Seven, are to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their Britpop zenith, A Maximum High, on the road this autumn and next February.

October’s six-date tour comes in the wake of the Sheds’ sold-out open-air show at The Piece Hall, Halifax, on June 6, marking three decades since the April 1 1996 release of their second album, the one featuring five Top 40 hits: Where Have You Been Tonight?, Getting Better, Going For Gold, Bully Boy and On Standby.

Unlike this summer, no Yorkshire date will feature among the itinerary of intimate venues, some having played host to the Sheds during the album’s original promotion, some marking their return for the first time in more than a decade.

Frontman Rick Witter says: “After the incredible response to our A Maximum High 30th Anniversary show in Halifax, and after hearing that so many of you missed out, we’re thrilled to announce a special run of A Maximum High shows this October and in February 2027. 

“This time we’ll be taking things back to where it all began: smaller, more intimate venues, just like the ones we were playing back in 1996. We’ll be performing A Maximum High in full, followed by a second set of Shed classics, along with a few tracks from our forthcoming self-titled album, Shed Seven.”

Tickets are still available for Birmingham O2 Institute on October 15, but shows at Kingston-upon-Thames (October 16), London Scala (October 17), Northampton Roadmender (October 29), Manchester Academy 2 (October 30) and Glasgow Barrowland (October 31) have sold out, as have the Sheds’ Irish shows in Belfast on October 23 and Dublin the following night.

Shed Seven at the finale to June 6’s A Maximum High 30th Anniversary gig at The Piece Hall, Halifax. Picture: Ianthe Photo

Tickets for the 8pm Birmingham gig, promoted by Jacaranda Records, are on sale at https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Birmingham/02-Institute-Birmingham/Shed-Seven-Album-Launch-Show/42608885/. The February 2027 tour schedule is yet to be announced.

In conjunction with the 30th anniversary gigs, a new album variant, Shed Seven – A Maximum Lo-Fi, will be created exclusively for these shows as a special edition of the upcoming self-titled Shed Seven album.

Alongside the new album, it includes exclusive bonus tracks featuring re-imagined versions of some of the deeper cuts and B-sides from the A Maximum High era. Think stripped-back performances, acoustic guitars, lo-fi textures and a completely different take on songs such as Magic Streets, Where Have You Been Tonight?, Lies, Out By My Side , Killing Time and more besides.

Looking to notch a hat-trick of chart toppers after A Matter Of Time and Liquid Gold in 2024, Shed Seven’s seventh studio album – hence the title to honour that landmark – will be released on Cooking Vinyl on January 8 2027, preceded by its lead single, Stand Together.  

Rick enthuses: “We have taken great care in making this album what we believe to be our best yet, and we hope these songs are taken to people’s hearts. The comeback single Stand Together shows a statement of intent. It’s a call to arms and a rallying cry for some kind of unity in the world we live in today.”

The cover artwork for Shed Seven’s seventh studio album, aptly named Shed Seven, set for release next January

The Shed Seven diary for 2026 will conclude with the tenth edition of Shedcember, Shedcember X, their biggest winter tour yet, climaxing with two nights at Leeds O2 Academy. December 12 has sold out but tickets are still available for December 13 via ticketmaster.co.uk.

If A Maximum High was the maximum high of Shed Seven 1.0, Rick reckons Shed Seven 2.0 is “our second peak”. “What we’ve realised, in our early to mid-50s, is that not many get a second chance, but after dipping our toes in again in 2017 with Instant Pleasures, we knew we could still do it and we could enjoy it,” he says.

A Matter Of Time’s chart entry at number one in January 2024 and the brace of 30th anniversary concerts that followed at Futuresound’s Live At York Museum Gardens that summer gave impetus for Liquid Gold’s re-imagination of iconic Shed Seven tracks with orchestral arrangements, complemented by new recordings of Waiting For The Catch (featuring Issy Ferris) and All Roads Lead To You.

“We got to decide everything for that record, there was no pressure, and that comes through on the new record too,” says Rick. “We’ve recorded at it VADA Recording Studios, near Coventry, where we made Liquid Gold, working with Michael Rendall again, who’d engineered Instant Pleasures and moved up to producer for Liquid Gold.

“We recorded a song a day for A Matter Of Time, and this time me and Paul [guitarist Paul Banks] wrote the album over seven or eight months at Paul’s studio. Michael came in to whip the songs into shape, discussing how we could do something different out of the essence of what we’d come up with.

“We finished recording at the end of June for the first song, Stand Together, to come out in July, making the video on a boiling hot day in Wakefield, with Mr Paul Banks directing.”

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Shed Seven to play 21-date Shedcember X tour, heading to Sheffield Octagon & Leeds O2 Academy. When do tickets go on sale?

Shed Seven’s Paul Banks, left, Rob “Maxi” Maxfield, Rick Witter, Tom Gladwin and Tim Wills: Heading out on tenth edition of Shedcember in November and December

SHED Seven will conclude their Shedcember X 2026 Tour at Leeds O2 Academy on December 12, but no home-city gig will be on the York band’s 21-date itinerary.

The two-time album chart toppers will play a further Yorkshire show at Sheffield Octagon on November 27. Tickets go on general sale on Friday at 10am at https://lnk.to/ShedSevenX; fans can access pre-sale tickets from today (22/4/2026) at 10am by signing up to the Sheds’ mailing list at https://www.shedseven.com/signup.

Marking this much-loved festive run, the band have unveiled a heartfelt fan-focused film,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2um2NroTZ8, celebrating the tenth Shedcember season, written and directed by guitarist Paul Banks, capturing the essence of Shed Seven’s shows and the appreciation they have for their dedicated fan base.

Shedcember X promises to be the Sheds’ biggest and most celebratory yet. Since its inception in 2007, Shedcember has grown into a cult institution for fans, becoming their definitive start to the festive season.

Shed Seven singer Rick Witter: “Expect the big hits, along with a few surprises, and the thrill of us all singing our hearts out together for a couple of hours,” he says

Lead singer Rick Witter enthuses: “We can’t wait to get out there up and down the UK and soak up what is a unique atmosphere at a Shed Seven gig. Expect the big hits, along with a few surprises, and the thrill of us all singing our hearts out together for a couple of hours. See you down the front.”

Each night the Sheds will deliver a career-spanning set packed with anthems such as Going For Gold, Chasing Rainbows, Disco Down, On Standby and Talk Of The Town. Special guests The Academic, the Irish indie band with multiple number one  albums in their home country, will join for all dates.

As the Sheds’ tour announcement puts it: “If you’ve never been…this is the one to start with. If you have…you’re already know you’re coming…because every couple of years…this is where we meet again.

“For those who’ve been there before, Shedcember needs no introduction. It’s warm beer, bright lights and songs that never left you. Familiar faces in the crowd and new ones found somewhere between the first song and the last. Arms around shoulders. Voices filling every corner of the room.”

Shed Seven’s poster artwork for Shedcember X

This year, Shed Seven are marking the 30th anniversary of their hit-filled apotheosis A Maximum High, released on Polydor on April 1 1996 with its quintet of singles, Where Have You Been Tonight?, Getting Better, Going for Gold, On Standby and Bully Boy. The landmark Britpop album will be revisited in full at The Piece Hall, Halifax, on June 6. Tickets are on sale at ticketmaster.co.uk.

The full itinerary for Shedcember X is: November 13, Nottingham Rock City; November 14, Birmingham O2 Academy; November 17, Nick Rayns LCR, University of East Anglia, Norwich; November 19, Aberdeen Music Hall; November 20, Glasgow O2 Academy; November 21, Edinburgh Usher Hall; November 23, Leicester O2 Academy; November 24, Brighton Dome; November 26, Cardiff University Great Hall; November 27, Sheffield Octagon; November 28,   Newcastle O2 City Hall, and November 30, Cambridge Corn Exchange.

In December:  December 1, Bristol Beacon; December 3, Stockton Globe; December 4, Mountford Hall, Liverpool University; December 5, Manchester O2 Apollo; December 7, Lincoln Engine Shed; December 8, Stoke-on-Trent Victoria Hall; December 10, Bournemouth O2 Academy; December 11, London O2 Academy, Brixton, and December 12,
Leeds O2 Academy.

In the Sheds’ 2026 gig diary too are: Victoria Park, Warrington, May 23 and 24; Isle of Wight Festival, Big Top Tent, June 18; Engelfield House, Theale, Berkshire, July 24; Shed Seven Live In Belfast, Mandela Hall, Belfast, October 23, and Shed Seven Live In Dublin, Vicar Street, Dublin, October 24.

NEWSFLASH 24/4/2026

SHED Seven have added a second night at Leeds O2 Academy on December 13 in response to “phenomenal demand in the pre-sale” for December 12.

In addition, Shedcember X now will open a day earlier on November 12 at Nottingham Rock City after a similar pre-sale scenario for November 13. Box office: https://lnk.to/ShedSevenX.

The updated poster for Shedcember X with new dates added at Nottingham Rock City and Leeds O2 Academy

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