Following from the release of the highly anticipated first album in a decade Last Night On Earth, multi-platinum selling Canadian band Finger Eleven has announce they will be touring the UK tour in 2026 alongside SOiL.
Kicking off from Brighton, the five-piece will bring their seventh album to life across 15 of cities throughout the country, including an appearance at Hard Rock Hell festival – Fans are told expect “highly energetic and super tight performances” and taht the shows are “not to be missed.”
Vocalist Scott Anderson commented: “Finger Eleven has been looking forward to making their way back to the UK. We’re grateful for the opportunity to be touring with SOiL this time around. We can’t wait to reunite with old friends and rock out across the pond!”
UK TOUR DATES 2026:
Fri 30 Oct Brighton, England, Chalk
Sat 31 Oct Wolverhampton, England, KK’s Steelmill
Sun 01 Nov Hull, England, Asylum
Tue 03 Nov Glasgow, Scotland, The Garage
Wed 04 Nov Newcastle, England, Digital
Thu 05 Nov Great Yarmouth, England, Hard Rock Hell
Fri 06 Nov Nottingham, England, Rock City
Sat 07 Nov Manchester, England, The Ritz
Tue 10 Nov Northampton, England, Roadmender
Wed 11 Nov Southampton, England, The 1865
Thu 12 Nov Torquay, England, The Foundry
Fri 13 Nov Bristol, England, O2 Academy
Sat 14 Nov London, O2 Academy, Electric Ballroom
Tickets are available now from here.
It had been a while, but one of the best-selling Canadian bands of all time, Finger Eleven‘s first new studio album in a decade, Last Night On Earth, was recently released through Better Noise Music –
“As we were making Last Night On Earth, there was this feeling that we were making a big Rock record,” guitarist Rick Jackett recalled. “We had done that early in our career, and then we veered away from it. But it was time to go back and embrace that bigness of the sound. Even the soft songs sound big.”
While everyone agreed the title track was a special song, it took Finger Eleven – Scott Anderson (Vocals), James Black (Lead guitar, backing vocals), Rick Jackett (Rhythm guitar), Sean Anderson (Bass), and Steve Molella (Drums) – many years to find the diamond inside of this movingly candid string-laden ballad about how relationships fall apart. Jackett realised that they had no true chorus, but as they were tracking drums for the last four songs on the album, drummer Steve Molella suggested doing an acoustic, campfire- style jam. They nailed it during their final hour of studio time.
“Scott wrote some of my favorite lyrics,” Molella beamed. “It was the most natural the song has ever sounded.”
“I think ‘Last Night On Earth’ could be placed squarely in a traditional relationship frame where you forget what you’re even fighting about,” continued Anderson, “But you hate that feeling in the pit of your stomach when something’s not resolved and you don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna look like.”
Although Finger Eleven excel at writing four-minute songs, guitarist James Black felt that “’The Mountain’ feels like a 7-minute epic squeezed into that time, with music as epic as the lyrics are. “The setting is a fantastical one. At its core, it’s a song about trying to find the music,” explained frontman Scott Anderson. “The ultimate search is you’re finally at the end of it. When I step back it’s talking about our own journey, but it’s dressed up in a different way. It’s the idea of just trying to find one more cool idea, and hoping it’s not the last one.”
It was the band’s fourth single from the album and you can listen to it here and watch the video here at RAMZine, as you can their other recent singles.
Another single, ‘Blue Sky Mystery’, features Richard Patrick from Filter. Anderson noted that the chorus had a heavy Black Sabbath vibe, and the band maintained that throughout the song’s evolution even as the verses underwent a larger transformation. Changes even came in at the eleventh hour of mixing, but they got the song they wanted. He wrote the lyrics for ‘Blue Sky Mystery’ about burrowing into the rabbit hole of a deep obsession. “The more it’s in front of you, the less you understand it, the more you’re obsessed with it,” he says. “You can’t get your mind around it, or away from it.”
‘Blue Sky Mystery’ was originally called ‘10 Ton Saber’,” guitarist James Black recollected. “I just pictured some guy in Star Wars with an enormous, bazooka-sized lightsaber.”
“Working with Scott, James, Rick, Sean and Steve could not have gone smoother. They are good guys and total pros,” said Filter’s Richard Patrick. “Coincidentally, Filter is also celebrating its 30th Anniversary and we’ve never had the opportunity to work with Finger Eleven before, save for an appearance at a festival together somewhere. Recording ‘Blue Sky Mystery’ was a lot of fun.”
Last year, fans got their first taste of Last Night On Earth via ‘Adrenaline’ (that reached the Top 20 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart) and a video that’s reached over 176k views on YouTube. The song also reached #2 on the Active Rock chart in Canada, where the song held strong in the Top 5 for over 4 months and is still inside the Top 20 one year after release. “As we were making Last Night On Earth, there was this feeling that we were making a big rock record,” guitarist Rick Jackett recalled. “We had done that early in our career, and then we veered away from it. But it was time to go back and embrace that bigness of the sound. Even the soft songs sound big.”
Finger Eleven has always amalgamated their musical influences from the 1960s forward into their rock mix. They acknowledge that Phil Collins and Genesis were a big melodic influence on Last Night On Earth and the new tunes explore time-honoured band concepts with fresh twists. While ‘Adrenaline’ is a rousing, intense anthem about pushing forward against adversity, ‘Blue Sky Mystery’ is a hard-hitting rocker about being beguiled by something just out of reach. Further into the album, ‘The Mountain’ rides musical peaks and valleys in its quest to chase the song, about the creative process expressed in a fantasy setting. Then there is the acoustic number ‘Last Night On Earth’, tackling relationship turmoil. It’s the most personal new track for frontman Scott Anderson.
Originally from Burlington, Ontario and now based mostly out of Toronto, Finger Eleven has released a series of consecutive hit albums and become a major live band since emerging from the great White North.
The multi-platinum Juno Award-winning group – featuring Scott Anderson (Vocals), James Black (Lead guitar, backing vocals), Rick Jackett (Rhythm guitar), Sean Anderson (Bass), Steve Molella(Drums) – criss-crossed America last summer with long-time former labelmates Creed, revisiting the summer of ‘99. “People were just smiling the whole time—it was contagious,” guitarist Rick Jackett revealed. “We forgot we had so many friends in America. That was a cool feeling.” Currently on tour across the USA with Alien Ant Farm and Brkn Love they will then head out on their biggest Canadian tour ever, with fellow native sons Headstones and Tea Party joining them.
Last Night On Earth can be ordered here.
