Jacob Collier - The Light For Days Tour

On 20 September 2026 at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh, Jacob Collier brings The Light For Days Tour, unearthed from his habit of building songs in layers and sharing them with a room ready to sing. Multi-instrumentalist and singer, he navigates between jazz, pop, R&B and choral colours, stacking harmonies, shifting meters and inviting the audience into collective vocal moments. What started with his early split-screen arrangements now takes shape live, with voices, keys, bass, percussion and a band set up to pivot fast between quiet textures and full-bodied grooves.

Born in London in 1994 in a family of musicians, Collier laid the groundwork with In My Room (2016), then stretched the palette across the four Djesse volumes (2018–2024), from chamber intimacy to orchestral breadth, electronic gleam and song-focused writing. These threads feed the stage arrangements, alongside collaborations crossed over the years with figures from jazz, pop and film music like Herbie Hancock or Hans Zimmer. In concert, the set morphs and breathes, moving from tight vocal architecture to open, participatory passages that turn the hall into a chorus.