Gnarls Barkley End 18-Year Stage Absence With New Tour

CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse have announced their first tour in 18 years, with a North American run in November and four UK dates in December 2026.

Gnarls Barkley are finally coming back to the stage. CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse have announced the 'To Whom It Still Concerns' Tour, which outlets including music-news.com and Stereoboard report marks their first live shows in 18 years. The run opens with a nine-city North American leg promoted by Live Nation, kicking off November 5, 2026 at The Masonic in San Francisco and closing November 28 at the House of Blues in Chicago, before crossing the Atlantic for four UK dates in December. For a duo whose collaboration has been dormant since 2008's 'The Odd Couple', a full headline tour is the reunion few devoted listeners thought would ever materialise.

According to Stereoboard, the UK leg will visit Manchester Academy on December 8, the O2 Academy Glasgow on December 9, Wolverhampton's Civic at The Halls on December 11 and London's British Airways ARC on December 12. The North American routing reported by Pollstar and Stereoboard also includes Los Angeles's Wiltern, Atlanta's Coca-Cola Roxy, the Fillmore in Detroit, House of Blues in Boston, Silver Spring's Fillmore, HISTORY in Toronto, Irving Plaza in New York and House of Blues in Chicago, giving fans on both sides of the Atlantic rare chances to see the pair live.

The tour supports 'Atlanta', the duo's third album and their first new project in 18 years, released in March 2026. Stereoboard describes it as the duo's third and final album under the Gnarls Barkley name, named in tribute to the city both artists come from, while music-news.com reports it arrived earlier this year led by the return single 'Pictures'. It follows their 2006 debut 'St. Elsewhere' and 2008's 'The Odd Couple', after which Green and Danger Mouse pursued solo projects before reuniting to record. That framing makes this tour feel less like a nostalgia lap and more like a closing chapter announced on the duo's own terms.

music-news.com notes that in 2006, 'Crazy' made history as the first song to reach Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart based on download sales alone, spending nine consecutive weeks at the top. That a duo with that level of chart history is returning after nearly two decades is the kind of development devoted readers would consider genuinely surprising. Green framed the tour's meaning himself: "The Gnarls Barkley 'To Whom It Still Concerns' Tour operates like an open book, exploring the universal matters of life, death and everything in between."

The quote Green issued appears consistently across music-news.com, Stereoboard and Pollstar News: "These songs are the silver lining to an otherwise sad story. Come, and let's celebrate together the beautiful madness of it all." That consistent framing suggests the pair intend the shows as something more emotional than a greatest-hits exercise, and Stereoboard predicted there would be "a LOT of Smiley Faces" among fans reacting to the news. For readers who remember the duo's theatrical, genre-blurring live presentations from the 'St. Elsewhere' era, the promise of celebrating "the beautiful madness" will read as an invitation to expect the unexpected.

Ticketing details differ slightly by outlet, so here is what each reports. Pollstar News says North American tickets begin with a Citi and Spotify presale on September 21, an artist presale on September 23 and a general onsale September 24 at 10 a.m. local time via livenation.com. Stereoboard matches that general-sale date for North America and reports UK tickets go on general sale at 10 a.m. on September 25. music-news.com likewise reports the UK general sale for Friday, September 25 at 10am BST. With only nine North American and four UK shows announced, fans hoping to see what the duo calls its final chapter live should plan to move quickly once sales open.