"CALLING ALL BOCATS ON A BUDGET!"
By Tom Skinner 26th January 2026
Sherelle. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett for NME
SHERELLE has announced a UK tour in partnership with the Music Venue Trust and Save Our Scene, with tickets available for just £10. Find all the details below.
The London DJ and electronic musician/producer – who graced NME‘s The Cover last April – will take to the stage at six grassroots venues next month.
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She’ll bring her acclaimed ‘SHERELLELAND’ show to Sheffield’s Dryad Works, Exeter’s Move, The Crescent in York, Blackpool’s Bootleg Social, Lost Horizon in Bristol, and The Old Fire Station in Bournemouth.
“It’s a pleasure to work with SOS, both of us really want to support grassroot venues so much and I am looking forward to touring with them!” SHERELLE said in a statement.
George Fleming, founder of Save Our Scene, added: “It’s time for the music industry to bring back regional touring. Too many towns and cities are being left off the touring circuit, which is having a serious impact on local venues.
“Alongside the Music Venue Trust, we’re on a mission to change that and we’d like to thank SHERELLE for taking the lead.”
Fans can buy tickets for SHERELLE’s 2026 “cheap and cheerful” tour for just £10, so that “these raves focus on the music, the friendship and the pure dancefloor energy of what a real night out should be”.
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“CALLING ALL BOCATS ON A BUDGET! 💸 SHERELLELAND IS BACK!,” SHERELLE wrote on social media to announce the dates.
The forthcoming trek will “tap into some of the areas that have been left off the touring circuit in recent years” and bring “affordable parties to six UK cities”. Tickets for all shows are on sale now – you can buy yours here.
Save Our Scene aims to harness community power to build a sustainable live music ecosystem, while the Music Venue Trust (MVT) “acts to protect, secure and improve UK grassroots music venues for the benefit of venues, communities and upcoming artists”.
AdvertisementSHERELLE implemented the same £10 price cap for a run of gigs last year, as did Benefits. In 2024, Sleaford Mods similarly sold some £5 tickets “for people on low incomes”.
Speaking to NME in 2021, SHERELLE said that “the government [had] failed the music scene in a massive way”. She also reflected on how learning to make music had helped her deal with the anxiety of having an “unviable” career during lockdown.
Sherelle. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett for NME
The MVT published its annual report last week, showing another worrying year for UK grassroots venues in 2025. It found that 30 grassroots live music spaces had closed for good between July 2024 and July 2025, while 48 stopped operating as gig venues. In addition, 53.8 per cent of grassroots venues reported no profit in the last 12 months, with a loss of over 6,000 jobs (19 per cent) across the year.
“We have reached the absolute limit of what goodwill can possibly absorb,” MVT CEO Mark Davyd said.
“For years, grassroots music venues have quietly carried problems that should never have been theirs to solve. Rising costs. Shifting policy. Regulatory confusion. Political drift. Industry indifference. And because they didn’t collapse overnight, everyone else has been able to pretend that the system more or less works.”
Meanwhile, the Liveline scheme, in partnership with Save Our Scene and the Association Of Independent Promoters, will look to tackle the touring crisis by “covering venue costs, reducing promoter risk and guaranteeing artist fees”. This will be done to “restore a viable touring network to towns that have been excluded from professional live music, reconnecting artists with audiences across the UK”.
In related news, Independent Venue Week 2026 kicks off today (Monday January 26). The series returns with over 236 independent venues putting on over 700 gigs across the UK, celebrating and spotlighting the people and places that make music possible and feed into the talent pipeline.
SHERELLE surprise-released her debut album, ‘With A Vengeance’, last April. The record was named as one of NME‘s 20 best debut albums of 2025 last month: “‘With A Vengeance’ maintains the same pulse and pace as much of SHERELLE’s earlier work, but this time, she’s more intentional about the styles of production she brings to the table.
“Her sound is hard, fast and strong, but its speed doesn’t distract from its emotive energy, combining jumpy jungle drums, acid house 303 bassline patterns and juke sonics.”
