SPACE Bring Ten Neurotic Fairytales Tour to Pop Recs Sunderland

SPACE at Pop Recs Sunderland lands on Saturday 28 November 2026 as the Liverpool band bring their Ten Neurotic Fairytales Tour to the High Street West venue. The show runs from 7:30pm until 11pm and arrives during a 40-date UK tour marking a busy new chapter for a band with three decades of distinctive alternative-pop history behind them.

SPACE built their reputation in the 1990s by mixing guitar music with pop hooks, electronics, dark humour and a slightly off-centre sense of storytelling. Albums including Spiders and Tin Planet pushed the band well beyond the confines of a straightforward Britpop tag, while songs such as “Female of the Species”, “The Ballad of Tom Jones” and “Me and You Versus the World” gave them a catalogue that still turns up regularly on alternative radio and festival stages.

SPACE at Pop Recs Sunderland

The Sunderland date coincides with the release cycle around the band’s latest studio album, Ten Neurotic Fairytales. Pop Recs says the record is scheduled for September 2026, timed to arrive alongside the national tour. The venue also notes that the album and tour artwork grew from a collaboration using original artworks and models created by Johnny Vegas, giving the campaign a suitably unconventional visual identity.

The timing also puts the tour 30 years on from the release of Spiders, so this should be more than a simple new-album showcase. SPACE have a deep back catalogue to draw from, and an intimate room like Pop Recs is likely to make the older songs feel sharper and more immediate than they might in a larger theatre or festival setting.

Official ticketing confirms the Sunderland show for Saturday 28 November at 7:30pm. Tickets and current details are available from Eventim UK, while the venue listing is available from Pop Recs. Further band information is available through SPACE’s official website.

A big catalogue in a small Sunderland room

Pop Recs should suit a band whose best songs often work because they feel slightly strange around the edges. The room is compact enough for the humour and detail in Tommy Scott’s writing to come through, while still giving the bigger choruses enough room to lift when the full band hits them.

Support details were not confirmed on the official pages checked for this preview. Timings, line-ups and ticket information can change, so check Pop Recs, SPACE or the official ticketing page before travelling.

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