Joe Jackson: « Hope and Fury Tour 2026 »

Joe Jackson brings the Hope and Fury Tour 2026 to Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in Liverpool on 5 October 2026. A songwriter who has moved freely between pop, rock, new wave and orchestral writing since the late 70s, he draws on a catalogue that runs from Look Sharp! and I’m the Man to Night and Day and Body and Soul. On stage, he keeps the piano at the centre and lets the songs shift from tight grooves to chamber shades, carried by a dry wit and clean, melodic lines.

This tour is a chance to hear cornerstones like Steppin’ Out alongside later chapters from Fast Forward, Fool and What a Racket!. Jackson’s live sets favour balance: sharp band interplay, a few stripped moments, and arrangements that give older tracks fresh angles without turning them into museum pieces. Four decades in, he treats his songbook as material to be reworked, not just replayed, so hits and deep cuts sit together with the same focus. In Liverpool, expect an artist revisiting the pulse of his early band records while folding in the harmonic curiosity of his more orchestral projects, all with the unshowy precision that has defined his writing from the start.