SPYAIR are returning to Europe this autumn for their first tour on the continent since 2018. The Nagoya rock band have confirmed five dates across Austria, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and England, with the tour closing at London’s Scala on November 7th.
The news landed on June 19th, the same day SPYAIR played the Earth Hall at Pyrkon, a fantasy and pop-culture convention in Poznań, Poland.
The SPYAIR EUROPE TOUR 2026 revisits some of the band’s key European markets while also delivering two firsts. The run begins with an appearance at YuniCon in Vienna, SPYAIR’s first show in Austria, before heading to Eindhoven for their first headline date in the Netherlands. Paris will host the band for the fourth time, continuing a history that stretches back to their European debut at the Tokyo Crazy Kawaii festival in 2013.
SPYAIR made their name through a number of hit anime tie-ins, with songs like ‘Imagination’, ‘I’m a Believer’, ‘Orange’, ‘Samurai Heart (Some Like It Hot!!)’, and ‘Genjou Destruction’ soundtracking some of modern anime’s most loved moments across Haikyu!!, Gintama, and BLEACH. Off the back of those, they’ve grown a devoted following that reaches well beyond the anime community.
In May, the band concluded their nationwide hall tour supporting ‘RE-BIRTH’, their first original album with vocalist YOSUKE. Their new single ‘Awake’ arrives digitally on July 3rd as the opening theme for the TV anime The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System.
Before returning to Europe, SPYAIR will perform at J-POP SOUND CAPSULE during Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 2nd. They will then take their annual outdoor concert, JUST LIKE THIS, overseas for the first time with a South Korean show on September 5th, followed by its Japanese edition at Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater on September 26th.
Dates and tickets
| Date | Location | Tickets |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2026 | YuniCon, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2 Nov 2026 | Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, France | |
| 4 Nov 2026 | Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands | |
| 5 Nov 2026 | Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 7 Nov 2026 | Scala, London, UK |
About SPYAIR
SPYAIR are a Japanese rock band formed in Nagoya in 2005. Guitarist and programmer UZ, bassist and leader MOMIKEN, and drummer KENTA are the band's long-standing members, joined in 2023 by vocalist YOSUKE after original singer IKE left. Their music mixes hard and alternative rock with anthemic pop melodies and electronic elements, and they have held on to the heavier influences of their early years. After playing street and outdoor shows around Nagoya, SPYAIR made their major-label debut with 'LIAR' in 2010. They went on to headline Nippon Budokan and arenas and tour Japan nationwide, and their annual outdoor concert JUST LIKE THIS became one of their best-known live events. They began playing abroad early in their career, especially in South Korea, and have since toured Europe, North and South America, and elsewhere in Asia. Their first world tour in 2018 visited 23 cities, including their UK debut in London. Much of SPYAIR's catalogue is tied to anime, including several songs for Gintama and Haikyu!! and themes for BLEACH, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, among others. Their best-known songs include 'Samurai Heart (Some Like It Hot!!)', 'Sakura Mitsutsuki', 'Genjou Destruction', 'Imagination', and 'I'm a Believer'. 'Orange', written for the film Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, became their biggest streaming hit. IKE's departure in 2022 left SPYAIR's future in doubt, but UZ, MOMIKEN, and KENTA decided to carry on and opened the search for a new vocalist to the public. YOSUKE, a singer from Fukuoka, was chosen from more than 1,000 applicants and joined in April 2023. Since then, the band have re-recorded older songs with him and added new material to the catalogue. 'Orange' has since passed 200 million streams, and the band have returned to touring overseas. In March 2026 they released their seventh original album, 'RE-BIRTH', their first full-length record with YOSUKE. It brings together the singles released since he joined and new songs that gave him a bigger role in the band's songwriting. Later that year, JUST LIKE THIS was held outside Japan for the first time.
SPYAIR
Awake
Release Date: 03/07/2026
Label: Sony Music Labels
Stream: Spotify | Apple Music
