Chris de Burgh books eight UK nights for May 2027

Bath opens the run on 6 May; Liverpool closes it on 17 May. Tickets have been on sale since mid-September, with the classic hits still front and centre and no support acts named yet.

Chris de Burgh has set an eight-date UK itinerary for May 2027 under the banner It’s Never Too Late Tour, marking 50 years as a recording artist. The short run moves from Bath to Liverpool and includes two nights at Cadogan Hall in London. Tickets went on sale on 18 September 2026 via Aloud.com and other outlets. No support acts have been confirmed, and no further dates have been added beyond the eight already published.

The confirmed shows are Bath Forum on 6 May, Bournemouth Pavilion on 7 May, Cadogan Hall in London on 10 and 11 May, De Montfort Hall in Leicester on 13 May, The Anvil in Basingstoke on 14 May, Harrogate Convention Centre on 16 May and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 17 May. The package is deliberately compact: halls and pavilions rather than arenas, a single spring swing rather than a long-haul tour, and a set built around the songs audiences have carried for decades.

The records behind the dates

Those songs sit at the centre of the announcement. The Lady in Red, Missing You, Don’t Pay the Ferryman and High on Emotion are named among the titles expected to anchor the nights — the stretch of writing that took de Burgh from an early Eighties breakthrough into the mid-decade peak that fixed his name on radio and on the road.

Christopher John Davison, known professionally as Chris de Burgh, started as an art-rock performer before turning towards more pop-oriented material. His first album, Far Beyond These Castle Walls, arrived in 1975, the same year as Spanish Train And Other Stories. At the End of a Perfect Day followed in 1977, Crusader in 1979, Best Moves in 1981 and The Getaway in 1982. Man On the Line came in 1984. The 1986 love song The Lady in Red reached number one in several countries and remains the record most closely tied to his name, even as the wider catalogue kept moving.

He has sold more than 45 million albums worldwide and has performed nearly 4,000 concerts. Britain gave him several top 40 hits; the United States two. Elsewhere the hold has often been deeper still, with Norway and Brazil among the territories where the records found a particularly strong audience. Later chapters have included The Hands of Man in 2014, A Better World in 2016 and The Legend of Robin Hood: A Short Story in 2021. He also co-created Robin Hood – The Musical, extending the same storytelling streak that runs through the early concept-leaning albums into the stage.

A short tour with room left open

The May 2027 dates sit squarely in that long arc: half a century on from the first albums, still touring the songs that crossed borders, still working under a title that treats longevity as unfinished business rather than a full stop. The announcement was made through his official channels. At this stage the published itinerary stops at eight nights. Whether a second leg, Irish dates or a named support act will follow has not been said.

For listeners who know the run of records from Spanish Train through The Getaway and on into the later studio work, the shape of the tour is familiar — catalogue-led, venue by venue, built around voices and songs rather than spectacle. Cadogan Hall’s double-header is the clear centrepiece of the published list; Liverpool Philharmonic Hall closes the week. Everything else remains unannounced. For now the It’s Never Too Late Tour stands as a precise, limited return to UK stages in May 2027, with tickets already in circulation and the classic hits still doing the travelling.