Capaldi claims the parks from Dublin to Manchester

Lewis Capaldi has announced eight large outdoor headline shows across Britain and Ireland for summer 2026, the widest open-air run of his career. The dates run from late June to late August and take in parks, a stadium and established festival grounds in Dublin, Limerick, Exeter, Cardiff, Leeds, London, Belfast and Manchester.

The itinerary opens at Marlay Park in Dublin on 24 June and moves to Thomond Park in Limerick on 26 June. Powderham in Exeter follows on 28 June, then Blackweir Fields in Cardiff on 30 June. July brings Roundhay Festival in Leeds on 4 July and BST Hyde Park in London on 11 July. August closes the run: Vital in Belfast on 20 August and Wythenshawe Park in Manchester on 22 August. Pre-sale begins at 9am BST on 18 September, with general sale the following day at 9am BST. The dates were confirmed while Capaldi was midway through a sold-out UK arena comeback tour, and they are his largest outdoor headline shows to date.

Ballads that travelled, stages that grew

The scale of those nights sits on a catalogue built, first, in the smaller rooms and then on the radio. Capaldi, a Scottish singer-songwriter, was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards and won Best New Artist at the Brits the following year. His single "Someone You Loved", released in 2018, topped the UK Singles Chart in March 2019 and stayed there for seven weeks. By November 2019 it had reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was nominated for Song of the Year at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year, and was the bestselling single of 2019 in the UK. In May 2020 it was recognised as the longest-running top ten UK single of all time by a British artist.

That breakthrough did not arrive from nowhere. The Bloom EP in 2017 and the Breach EP in 2018 had already set out the writing voice — piano-led, direct, built for a mass audience without sanding off the grain. The years after the global hit kept the same centre of gravity. More recently the 2025 run of releases extended his catalogue: the All The Rest EP, the Survive EP, the single "Something In The Heavens", a piano version of "Survive", and "Everytime", among other entries. The songwriting stayed close to the bone; the live operation around it kept expanding.

What eight outdoor nights actually meant

Arenas test volume and production. Outdoor headline dates of this kind test something else: whether a songwriter whose reputation was made on ballads that moved by streaming and airplay can hold a park on a summer evening without the roof for company. Placing Dublin and Limerick at the front of the run puts Irish audiences first. BST Hyde Park puts him on one of London's most visible summer stages. Vital in Belfast and Wythenshawe Park in Manchester bookend the late summer in two cities with deep live traditions. Powderham, Blackweir Fields and Roundhay fill the middle of the map.

Taken together, the eight shows read less like a string of festival cameos and more like a self-staged outdoor statement after the arena return. What the summer promises is the shape of the footprint itself: two Irish dates, a sweep through the south and west of England and Wales, Leeds and London in early July, then Belfast and Manchester to finish.

For listeners who already know the records — from Bloom and Breach through "Someone You Loved" and on to the 2025 EPs — the 2026 outdoor run is the live counterpart at open-air scale. The question remaining is how far that outdoor chapter extends next, and on what terms.