The Mountain Goats – John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster – have today announced a European and UK tour for October 2026. Craig Finn (The Hold Steady) will be opening for the band on all dates, except Berlin. Tickets go on sale at 10am local time on Friday 21st November.
2026 Tour Dates:
5th October Helsinki, Finland – Kuudes Linja *
7th October, Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen *
8th October, Oslo, Norway – Vulkan Arena *
10th October, Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset *
11th Oct Berlin, DE – Metropol
13th October, Ghent, Belgium – De Centrale *
14th October, Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenberg *
16th October, Manchester, UK – Albert Hall #
18th October Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street #
19th October, Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom #
21st October, London, UK – Hackney Church #
23rd October, Bristol, UK – Bristol Beacon #
* with Craig Finn
# with Craig Finn and the Band of Forgiveness
Earlier this month, the Mountain Goats released their anticipated 23rd full-length album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan on Cadmean Dawn Records.
Produced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is a full-on musical that stands as the most conceptually detailed and musically elaborate project in the band’s ever-expanding catalog. It features appearances from The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, harpist Mikaela Davis, musical theater royalty Lin-Manuel Miranda, and bassist Cameron Ralston.
Drawing on the cryptic phrasing of its title, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan tells the story of a small crew shipwrecked on a desert island, where three surviving members—an unnamed narrator, Captain Peter Balkan, and Adam—are plagued by diminishing resources and apocalyptic visions. These are tales of survival and desolation, brutality and tenderness, hard-earned wisdom and heaps of compassion, novelistic detail and shouted, wordless choruses that transcend language. In other words, these are Mountain Goats songs, further deepening a singular body of work now spanning over three decades, as evidenced by the album’s singles “Armies of the Lord,” “Cold at Night,” “Rocks in My Pockets,” and album highlight “Peru.”
The Mountain Goats are also releasing a 20th Anniversary reissue of their 2005 fan-favorite album, The Sunset Tree, remastered at Abbey Road Studios, and John Darnielle is releasing This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days on December 2nd, which pairs the definitive texts of 365 of his songs with first-person commentaries on his life and music, which reveal how the songs came to be and the people who inspired them.
LISTEN TO THROUGH THIS FIRE ACROSS FROM PETER BALKAN
