The Coral have announced their first head­line UK tour in almost three years a month after releas­ing their thir­teenth album, 388. There’s a run of six shows, plus three are­na sup­port dates with The Mary Wal­lop­ers, and a simul­ta­ne­ous release of a new video for opti­mistic new sin­gle, Leave It In The Past.
 
The album 388 was ful­ly released at the end of May fol­low­ing two weeks under cov­er, stocked unan­nounced at inde­pen­dent record shops in just one, stan­dard black vinyl format. 

Record­ed to an orig­i­nal 1970’s Tas­cam 388 tape recorder and employ­ing a ‘warts and all’ pol­i­cy of retain­ing the essen­tial­ly human, pro­found­ly ana­logue sounds with­in the stu­dio, mis­takes includ­ed, the album was revealed with focus on the album open­er, Let The Music Play. With a con­tin­ued sense of intro­spec­tion and focus on their roots, the release of a new video for Leave It In The Past finds the band per­form­ing amongst the bar­gains of Birken­head Mar­ket in the com­pa­ny of direc­tor, James Slater.

Tour dates
Fri 2 Octo­ber – Sheffield, Foundry*
Fri 9 Octo­ber – New­cas­tle, Boil­er Shop**
Sat 10 Octo­ber – Leeds, Project House**
Fri 16 Octo­ber – Lon­don, KOKO**
Sat 17 Octo­ber – Brighton, Cen­tre***
Fri 23 Octo­ber – Man­ches­ter, Albert Hall**
Sat 24 Octo­ber – Birm­ing­ham, O2 Insti­tute 2**
Fri 10 Decem­ber – Dublin, 3Arena***
Fri 18 Decem­ber – Glas­gow, Ovo Hydro***

• *sup­port­ed by Dave McCabe, ** sup­port­ed by Mozart Estate, *** with The Mary Wallopers

Tick­ets for all dates go on sale Fri 3 July 2026 at 9.30am via links on www.thecoral.co.uk