IAMX announce the 2026 ‘Recollections Tour’ across Europe
IAMX announce the 2026 Recollections Tour, a European run of festivals and Nordic headline shows from 31 July to 3 October, with support from Aux Animaux.
IAMX, the solo project of Chris Corner, have announced the Recollections Tour, a European run that mixes darkwave, synthpop and electronic material from across the project’s catalogue with reworks and recent tracks. The tour opens on 31 July at the Unter dem Himmel festival in Thale, Germany, and runs through to a two-night close at UNITY in Berlin on 2-3 October 2026. IAMX Productions frame the Recollections Tour as a “best of” set drawn from more than two decades of the project.
The itinerary pairs festival appearances with a block of headline shows in the Nordic region. Corner takes the IAMX live band to the German festivals Unter dem Himmel, alongside VNV Nation, and M’era Luna in Hildesheim, then on to Extramuralhas in Leiria, Portugal, and a headline slot at Infest in Manchester. Two Turkish dates follow in Izmir and at Istanbul’s Rock’n Park festival, before the band rejoins VNV Nation at the UNITY events in Oberhausen and Berlin. The run builds on the Artificial Innocence Tour, which took the band across Central and Eastern Europe in March and April 2026.
On the Nordic dates, support comes from Aux Animaux, the Stockholm-based solo project of Gözde Düzer, who also plays bass and theremin in the IAMX live band. Side-Line spoke with her earlier this year about that dual role in Gözde Düzer (Aux Animaux) interview on joining IAMX, touring with Chris Corner, and balancing two worlds.
The Stockholm stop carries an extra event. On 18 August, the day before the Kollektivet Livet concert, Corner and Düzer host Intimate Conversations With IAMX at the same venue, a discussion session on mental health, neurodivergence and sexuality interspersed with stripped-down acoustic reworks. The band has also announced a first Brazil appearance later in 2026, at Madame Club in São Paulo through Wave Festival Brasil.
Running parallel to the tour, the “Bernadette” EP collects seven renditions of the IAMX song on vinyl, from reworks and instrumentals to acoustic versions, available to preorder through Boutique IAMX. Tickets for the tour are listed at tickets.iamxmusic.com.
IAMX tour dates: the Recollections Tour 2026
- 31 July – 1 August 2026 – Thale, DE – Unter dem Himmel
- 9 August 2026 – Hildesheim, DE – M’era Luna
- 18 August 2026 – Stockholm, SE – Intimate Conversations With IAMX, Kollektivet Livet
- 19 August 2026 – Stockholm, SE – Kollektivet Livet
- 21 August 2026 – Leiria, PT – Extramuralhas
- 23 August 2026 – Manchester, UK – Infest
- 11 September 2026 – Izmir, TR – Sold Out Performance Hall
- 12 September 2026 – Istanbul, TR – Rock’n Park
- 18 – 19 September 2026 – Oberhausen, DE – UNITY
- 23 September 2026 – Oslo, NO – John Dee
- 24 September 2026 – Malmö, SE – Plan B
- 25 September 2026 – Helsinki, FI – On The Rocks
- 2 – 3 October 2026 – Berlin, DE – UNITY
About IAMX
IAMX is the solo project of British musician and producer Chris Corner, founded in London in 2004 after his years as a co-founder of the trip-hop group Sneaker Pimps. The name comes from the Sneaker Pimps debut album “Becoming X”. Corner writes, produces and performs the project’s music, which mixes electronic pop, darkwave, synthpop and industrial and experimental textures with cabaret-influenced staging.
Since 2004, Corner has released ten IAMX studio albums, from “Kiss + Swallow” (2004) and “The Alternative” (2006) through “Kingdom of Welcome Addiction” (2009), “The Unified Field” (2013), “Metanoia” (2015), “Alive in New Light” (2018) and, most recently, “Fault Lines²” (2024). He relocated from Berlin to Southern California in the 2010s, building a desert property into a studio and creative base, and has kept a direct line to listeners through recurring reworks, acoustic versions and remixes of the catalogue.
The 2026 tour continues that revisiting of the back catalogue. Its combination of festival sets, Nordic headline shows and the Stockholm conversation event turns the Recollections Tour into both a retrospective and a lead-in to the project’s next chapter.
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