'80s Pop Star Announces Special Guests for 2026 Tour
Gary Numan is gearing up for another busy stretch on the road, and he's bringing along familiar faces.
The synth-pop pioneer announced on X that French industrial rock band Divine Shade will serve as the special guest on most of his U.K. summer tour dates in July and August.
"Very pleased to welcome back Divine Shade as guests on most of our UK Summer shows this July and August," Numan wrote. "They last toured with us on the Intruder UK tour in 2022 and I was hugely impressed by their energy and power. They've even more energetic and powerful now! Looking forward to upcoming shows around the world."
The U.K. run begins July 17 in Glasgow before making stops in Gateshead, Norwich, Bournemouth, Buckley, Halifax and London, along with festival appearances in Belgium and a headlining show in Amsterdam.
Following the European dates, Numan will head to North America in November for performances in cities including Chandler, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and San Diego, as well as an appearance at California's Darker Waves.
The tour continues into early 2027, when Numan will join Simple Minds for a series of arena shows across Australia and New Zealand, including stops in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Audiences can expect to hear a mix Numan's songs both old and new.
"It'd be arrogant not to do the nostalgia thing once in a while," he told Classic Pop. "It keeps the people happy who love the early stuff. I understand why they love it, and thankfully a lot of them are still with me and my current music. [...] I've got the freedom to put the setlist together I want, rather than strategically having to place certain songs in the set to keep the momentum going."
Numan first rose to international fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s with pioneering electronic hits including "Cars", which topped the U.K. charts and reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and "Are 'Friends' Electric?," recorded with Tubeway Army.
While his early work helped define synth-pop and new wave, Numan has continued to evolve musically over the past several decades, embracing darker industrial and electronic sounds on recent albums like Intruder.
Now, with Divine Shade once again joining him for much of the U.K. leg, fans can expect an energetic pairing as Numan embarks on another globe-spanning tour celebrating both his pioneering catalog and his continued evolution as an artist.
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This story was originally published June 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM.