Nia Archives Announces 19-Date Emotional Junglist World Tour

Nia Archives is taking jungle around the planet. The Leeds-raised producer and DJ just announced the Emotional Junglist World Tour, a 19-date run that opens September 1, 2026 in Osaka, Japan and doesn’t let up until January 2027 in Sydney. The centerpiece? A headline night at Alexandra Palace in London on November 26. Presale opened Tuesday, August 25 via her signup list, and general on-sale hits Thursday, August 27 at 10am local time, according to the announcement.

Here’s how the routing shakes out. After Osaka and a Tokyo date on September 10, the North American leg runs November 6 through 13: the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, SAT in Montreal, the Opera House in Toronto, and Webster Hall in New York. Then she heads home for the UK stretch — Barrowland in Glasgow on November 22, Rock City in Nottingham, the Prospect Building in Bristol, that big Ally Pally night, and Aviva Studios in Manchester on November 28. December is all Europe and Ireland: Berlin, Amsterdam’s Gashouder, Brussels, Paris, and Vicar Street in Dublin on December 8. Australia closes it out with The Forum in Melbourne on January 6 and the Metro Theatre in Sydney on January 7.

If you’ve been anywhere near a festival this summer, you know why this tour is landing now. Her second album Emotional Junglist dropped in July on Island Records, with Jorja Smith featuring on “Get Me Down” and Sampha on “Tender,” and it’s already earned her a spot on this year’s Mercury Prize shortlist — the winner gets announced October 22, right in the middle of the tour buildup. Not bad timing, right? She announced the dates on Instagram fresh off headlining All Points East in London on August 21, saying she’s “buzzing to be bringing the live show to a city near you.”

The bigger picture here is that jungle and drum & bass keep pushing into rooms this size. UK bass acts are scaling up fast — just this week we covered Sub Focus adding a grassroots venue levy to his 2027 arena shows — and Nia Archives has been one of the loudest arguments that the sound belongs on the biggest stages, not just in the tents. She wrote on the album that being an “Emotional Junglist” means feeling “everything and nothing all at once,” and the live show is built around exactly that push and pull.

North American dates are limited to five cities this time around, so if you’re anywhere near LA, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, or New York, don’t sleep on Thursday’s on-sale. Jungle shows at this level don’t come through the States often — yet.