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Live review: PRESIDENT, London The Garage
Masked metallers PRESIDENT stage their first rally in the capital and punishingly inform the electorate that they’re just getting started…
With tickets having gone online today, PRESIDENT have announced that The Campaign Trail is already sold out.
In the least surprising news ever, PRESIDENT’s 2026 headline tour over here has instantly sold out.
Tickets for next year’s April run – which stops off in Dublin, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Bristol, Norwich and London – have been completely snapped-up, with the band announcing that European dates earlier in the year in Barcelona, Madrid and Zurich still have a limited number left (but probably not for long, let’s be honest). “The UK leg of The Campaign Trail has now completely SOLD OUT — and it did so with haste,” PRESIDENT write. “Your belief does not go unnoticed.”
On Wednesday night, the band played their first-ever headline show at The Garage in London. In the Kerrang! review, we concluded: “As the crowd chant for PRESIDENT once more, their vocalist gracefully, slowly, bows. Nobody can truly know, thanks to the mask, what he is thinking or feeling in this moment, but as he raises his arms towards the crowd, it seems like he is telling himself to soak it all in. Those watching are likely doing the same. For those here to share in it, this is a moment that will soar in value as time passes, as this most special of bands inevitably ascend at record speed. Fans take their leave with flags and badges in hand, and a humblebrag nobody can ever take from them. I was there.”
Catch them live at the following:
PRESIDENT – The Campaign Trail 2026
January
9 Paris Les Étoiles
10 Amsterdam Bitterzoet
11 Cologne Luxor
30 Zurich Exil
February
1 Barcelona La Nau
2 Madrid Nazca
April
12 Dublin Academy
14 Manchester O2 Ritz
15 Glasgow SWG3 TV Studio
17 Leeds Project House
18 Bristol Electric
20 Norwich UEA
21 London O2 Forum Kentish Town
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