One of the most important albums of the 2000s is coming back to the stage, and Cardiff is on the list.
The Amy Winehouse Band will play Cardiff’s New Theatre on Thursday 26 November 2026 as part of a major UK tour celebrating 20 years of Back to Black. The album, released in 2006, changed everything for Amy Winehouse and went on to become one of the most loved British records of all time.
This tour is not a tribute act in the usual sense. The Amy Winehouse Band is made up of the musicians who were there from the very beginning. They played with Amy in small London pubs, toured with her as her career exploded, recorded with her, and stood alongside her on the world’s biggest stages. They were also with her on the night she made history at the 2008 GRAMMY Awards, where Back to Black helped her win five awards in one evening.
Led by long-time musical director and bass player Dale Davis, the band continue to perform Amy’s music around the world, keeping her songs alive in the way they were meant to be heard. Live, soulful and played by the people who know them best.
The 2026 tour will see the band perform Back to Black in full, alongside other classics from Amy’s catalogue. Expect songs like Rehab, You Know I’m No Good, Love Is a Losing Game and Back to Black to take centre stage, delivered with the same musicianship and feel that defined the original recordings.
Speaking about the anniversary, Dale Davis said he still finds it hard to believe it has been 20 years since the album’s release. He recalls Amy telling him, with total confidence, “I knew what I was doing,” a moment that stayed with him and summed up just how aware she was of what she had created.
The Cardiff date comes after a hugely successful run for the band. They completed a sold-out UK tour in 2025 and have spent recent years touring Europe, Asia, North America and South America, as well as appearing at major festivals.
While the tour builds towards a special homecoming show at London’s Roundhouse in December, the Cardiff stop is a big one for Welsh fans. The New Theatre’s setting suits this kind of show perfectly, close enough to feel intimate, but grand enough to do justice to the music.
For long-time fans, it is a chance to hear these songs performed live by the people who helped shape them. For newer listeners, it is an opportunity to experience Back to Black as a full album, played front to back, just as it was intended.
Twenty years on, the songs still hit hard, still sound fresh, and still mean a lot to a lot of people. Cardiff’s date on this tour feels less like a nostalgia trip and more like a celebration of music that has stood the test of time.
The Amy Winehouse Band
Cardiff New Theatre
Thursday 26 November 2026
