American Brass Rock sensation Brass Against announce Back To The UK Tour for 2027
American rock band Brass Against have announced their ‘Back To The UK Tour’, bringing their brass-inflected covers and original music to eight cities across the country in 2027.
The tour starts on 9th April in Glasgow before dates in Manchester, Nottingham, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London and Brighton. Brass Against will embark on their first UK headline tour since 2023, following their 2022 stint opening for American rock giants Tool on their UK and European arena tour, which included a show at London’s The O2.
Led and curated by Brad Hammonds, Brass Against began as a meeting between friends. Brad and Andrew Gutauskas (Brass Against’s musical director and its baritone sax player) got together in 2017 to vent about the unsettling, divisive and isolationist tones of the moment. The only way to do that? Rocking out to Rage Against the Machine.
After playing five tracks with Andrew on baritone sax, the effect was immediate. What Brad and Andrew ended up creating was a unique “cacophony of sound”. They asked fellow musician friends to join–a violinist here, a vocalist there, and the band grew incrementally.
They shot a video to gauge listeners’ potential appetite, and within six months, a handful of videos went viral. The collective soon had managers and booking agents, progressing to a European tour in 2018.
That effort has grown into a dynamic, evolving group of artists–the “collective.” Rather than having a set number of band members, Brass Against is a revolving kaleidoscope of like-minded souls. The collective is composed of mostly professional jazz musicians, allowing creativity, flexibility and inclusivity among the group and differentiating themselves from the usual all-male rock bands.
The music has evolved, too. Originally starting out as covers of their favourite bands like Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath and more, the group has also recorded their own music, having released six recorded albums featuring Sophia Urista on vocals, as well as Liza Colby, Michael Cunio, Samuel Hope and others. The electric mix of curated seminal heavy rock songs plus original music is something that brings audiences together around the world.
From Copenhagen to Cologne, Manchester to Milan, New York to LA, Brass Against is playing the songs that audiences grew up with - and keeping fans enthralled throughout the whole set. Brass Against have toured across the world, sharing the stage with big-name collaborators including Slipknot, Prophets of Rage, Royal Blood, Mike D of the Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and others.
They’ve performed at the Glastonbury Festival, Boomtown, Pukkelpop, Download Madrid, Welcome to Rockville, Java Jazz Festival, Splore and Electric Avenue. In 2022, they opened for American rock band Tool on their UK and Europe arena tour, playing at The O2 London.
UK Tour 2027:
9th April Glasgow Slay
10th April Manchester Club Academy
11th April Nottingham Rescue Rooms
12th April Leeds Brudenell
14th April Birmingham XOYO
15th April Bristol Fleece
16th April London Electric Ballroom
17th April Brighton Chalk
