The Jacksons featuring original Jackson 5 members announce 2026 UK tour

The Jacksons have announced a string of UK shows for later this year – see all the dates and ticket information below.

Billed as ‘Jackson 5 Live In Concert’, the dates will see original Jackson 5 members Marlon and Jackie Jackson perform in Manchester, Cardiff, Wolverhampton and London this November.

The run will begin at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on November 6, before continuing to Utilita Arena Cardiff on November 8 and the Wolverhampton Civic on November 11. It will wrap up at London’s Eventim Apollo on November 13.

Support on all dates will come from London funk and disco band Heatwave, who had hits throughout the ’70s and ’80s with tracks including ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Always And Forever’.

Tickets are on sale now, and you can find yours here.

The Jacksons’ 2026 UK tour dates are: 

NOVEMBER 
6 – Manchester, O2 Apollo 
8 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena Cardiff 
11 – Wolverhampton, Civic at the Halls 
13 – London, Eventim Apollo 

The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame-inducted group rose to fame as The Jackson 5 with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael Jackson, scoring a run of hits including ‘I Want You Back’, ‘ABC’, ‘The Love You Save’ and ‘I’ll Be There’, before later continuing as The Jacksons.

The current live show will also feature Mitchell Zhangazha, who recently starred as Michael Jackson in MJ The Musical, and Haydon Eshun, who played the lead in the West End’s Thriller show for over 10 years.

The group are portrayed in the hugely successful Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which stars Jermaine’s son Jaafar Jackson in the title role.

It follows Jackson from his early involvement with The Jackson 5 in the 1960s up until the ‘Bad’ world tour in the late 1980s, and Jackie and Marlon Jackson are listed as executive producers on the film.

Michael opened in April with the biggest-ever first weekend for a music biopic, and has since become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody with $911.9million (£680million) at the worldwide box office.

A sequel is already moving forward, and it is likely to renew discussion around the child sexual abuse allegations made against Jackson. The original script for Michael had reportedly addressed the 1993 Jordan Chandler allegations in its third act, before a clause in a legal settlement was found that prevented the Jackson estate from depicting Chandler, forcing substantial reshoots.

Jackson denied allegations of child sexual abuse during his lifetime and was acquitted in a separate 2005 criminal trial. James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who made their own allegations against Jackson in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, have since been given a new trial date for 2028 in their civil case against the late singer’s estate.

In a three-star review of Michael, NME wrote: “So, Michael feels like a job well done: it’s a slick, accessible advert for Jackson’s incredible imperial phase. But if the singer’s estate wanna be startin’ somethin’ bigger like a film franchise, they’ll have their work cut out.”

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