Bonobo is taking Distance In Static back into the room. Simon Green has announced a UK and European live tour for 2027 alongside a redesigned stage production, with London’s Alexandra Palace confirming a Great Hall date on 26 February. The run follows the release of his new album on Ninja Tune on 11 September 2026 and extends the live chapter that begins in North America this autumn.
A live show rebuilt around the new record
The 2027 dates arrive with a new visual and production setup designed by Pierre Claude, whose previous work includes projects for Air, Gesaffelstein, Phoenix and Caroline Polachek. That detail matters for Bonobo’s live format: Green has spent years treating the concert version of his music as a full-band arrangement rather than an enlarged DJ set. Tracks move differently on stage, with drums, bass, keys and vocals giving his more detailed studio material physical weight.
Distance In Static stretches across several voices
Distance In Static contains 13 tracks and brings together a notably varied group of collaborators, including Arooj Aftab, Joy Crookes, Nilüfer Yanya, Ichiko Aoba, Nicole Miglis and Aanya Martin. The record was developed across sessions in Los Angeles, Tokyo and London, with further work carried out at Neil Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch. Its vocal palette reaches across English, Urdu and Japanese, while the production also draws on historical Iranian samples and guzheng recordings.
Those ingredients make the live translation particularly interesting. Bonobo’s strongest concert arrangements tend to leave enough room for detail without losing the low-end pull that connects his music to clubs. A record with this many singers, acoustic sources and carefully layered electronic parts gives the touring band a lot to rework rather than simply reproduce.
Alexandra Palace anchors the UK leg
Alexandra Palace lists Bonobo for 26 February 2027, with doors at 18:30 and a 16+ age restriction. It is familiar territory for Green, who has previously sold out the London venue. This time the room gets the first UK cycle for an album that lands only a day after the tour announcement, so the set should arrive after months of North American shows have already tested the new production in front of audiences.
Bonobo’s official site is handling the UK/EU pre-sale under the DISTANCEINSTATIC campaign, while individual venues provide their own ticket information. For listeners who have followed Green from the downtempo records through increasingly large festival and concert productions, the more revealing part of this cycle may be how the new material changes once the band has lived with it for a few months. By February, these tracks should have accumulated the small rhythmic shifts and transitions that rarely exist on night one.
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