Joe Jackson opens Hope and Fury tour in Cork

Joe Jackson’s European Hope and Fury tour opens on 24 September 2026 at Cork City Hall, the first of two Irish dates before a stretch of UK halls and a wider European run that continues through December. Dublin follows on 27 September at the 3Olympia Theatre. The itinerary then moves to the Bristol Beacon on 29 September, Cambridge Corn Exchange on 1 October, Bournemouth Pavilion on 2 October, the London Palladium on 4 October and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on 5 October, with further European dates still to come.

The tour supports Hope and Fury, the studio album released in April 2026 on earMUSIC. Jackson has described the record as “Bicoastal LatinJazzFunkRock”. North American dates for the same campaign took place earlier in 2026. Tickets are on sale through the official channels; several of the UK shows are listed as sold out or running low on availability.

From Look Sharp! to Hope and Fury

The Cork opening places a long career back on Irish stages. David Ian “Joe” Jackson, the English singer-songwriter and musician, first broke through after years of study and club work with the 1979 single “Is She Really Going Out with Him?”. The debut album Look Sharp! and the follow-up I’m the Man the same year fixed him in the new-wave moment; Beat Crazy arrived in 1980. He then shifted gear with Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive in 1981, a swing and jump-blues set, before Night and Day in 1982 delivered the top-ten hit “Steppin’ Out” and the jazz-inflected pop that became a lasting signature.

That early-eighties run tied him to the Second British Invasion of the United States. He has also written classical works, scored the 1983 soundtrack album Mike’s Murder, and kept releasing across decades: the discography runs to some twenty studio albums, with later entries including the 2023 set Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in ‘What a Racket!’ and, in 2026, Hope and Fury itself. He has received five Grammy Award nominations. The new record sits in that long line of stylistic pivots rather than as a nostalgia package — Latin, jazz, funk and rock threaded together under a title that doubles as the tour name.

What the dates map out

Opening in Cork and Dublin before the English halls gives the European leg a clear Irish start. The Palladium date anchors the London end of the first week of October; Liverpool Philharmonic Hall closes that initial UK cluster. Beyond those confirmed stops, the routing continues across Europe into December, so the full shape of the autumn and winter still has room to fill out city by city.

For an artist whose catalogue already spans new-wave, jump jive, polished eighties pop and later experiments, Hope and Fury is another deliberate turn rather than a greatest-hits frame. Listeners who know the 1979 singles and the Night and Day era will hear the continuity of craft; the album’s tagline points to the rhythmic and harmonic mix he is carrying on stage. With the North American run behind him and the European dates about to begin, the next weeks are where that April release meets the halls that still have tickets — and the ones that do not.

Availability is the practical story under the listings. Some UK nights are already sold out or nearly sold out; Cork and Dublin remain the immediate markers on the calendar. After Liverpool the route leaves the first British block and heads further into the continental dates that take the tour to the year’s end. That is the shape of the campaign as it stands in early September: album out, American leg done, European leg opening in Cork in a little over two weeks.