Happy Mondays book Keele SU on the anniversary run

The band keep their Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches 35th-anniversary campaign moving, stopping in Minehead and Blackpool in November before heading to Berlin and Utrecht in January.

Happy Mondays play a headline gig at Keele University Students' Union on Friday 13 November 2026.

The booking forms part of the band's continuing 35th-anniversary celebrations for Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. The same November stretch already includes two further UK commitments: the Shiiine On Weekender in Minehead (13–15 November) and a show at Blackpool Winter Gardens on 14 November. Keele is thus a campus headline slot in a tight cluster of dates, not a one-off.

Anniversary dates still stacking up

By the time the Keele show was announced, the anniversary year had already taken the Mondays to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore in September.

The November diary underlines how the anniversary framing has shaped the band's 2026 routing. A Students' Union room, a multi-day coastal weekender and the Winter Gardens sit within days of each other, giving the UK end of the year three distinct venues and formats while staying within the same anniversary brief.

Beyond that stretch, European dates are confirmed for early 2027: Berlin on 24 January, Utrecht on 27 January and Paris on 29 January. No wider spring itinerary was announced alongside the Keele news, so those three shows currently mark the outer edge of what is locked in once the November UK cluster concludes.

For fans who followed the anniversary through the southern hemisphere dates, the practical focus is now the mid-November run: Keele on the Friday, Minehead over the weekend and Blackpool on the Saturday. The early-2027 dates in Berlin, Utrecht and Paris are the next fixed points. Further on-sale and routing details for the remaining schedule remain with the outlets already carrying the 2026 and 2027 calendar.