Lykke Li announces London headline show @ KOKO June 11th, 2026

In the wake of two iconic performances at Coachella and in celebration of her new album The Afterparty out May 8th, pop’s trailblazing disrupter Lykke Li announces her return to London to headline KOKO on Thursday June 11th.

This show will be the first time Lykke Li has played in London since 2022 and falls amidst a run of European shows that include both festival slots and high-profile slots performing with Nick Cave, Robyn and Wolf Alice.

Latest single ‘Sick of Love’ dropped just days ahead of her Coachella performance. This was the first time Lykke Li performed music from her latest body of work and marked the beginning of her 2026 tour which took her to The Fonda in Los Angeles last week, now moves to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mexico City, Ireland, London and across Europe this summer. For more information, go to https://lykkeli.com/tour/

Tickets for the London show will be available @ 10am (BST) as follows:

Wednesday April 22nd – O2 pre-sale
Thursday April 23rd – KOKO Members pre-sale
Friday April 24th – General Sale HERE

Executive produced and written by Lykke Li and longtime collaborator Björn Yttling in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra, The Afterpartyblends disco-glowing strings, flute flourishes, and what Lykke Li calls “apocalyptic bongos,” with lyrics that confront shame, desire, and existential uncertainty. At just 24 minutes, the album is both expansive and exacting, a dance record for the end of the world, capturing the strange clarity that arrives once the party is over.

Across nearly two decades, Lykke Li has carved a singular lane in modern pop defined by emotional extremity, melodic precision, and fearless intimacy. Since her breakout debut Youth Novels (2008) and the global success of ‘I Follow Rivers’, she has continued to evolve through the critically acclaimed Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So Sexy (2018), and the immersive audiovisual album EYEEYE (2022).

THE AFTERPARTY TRACKLIST

Not Gon Cry
Happy Now
Lucky Again
Famous Last Words
Future Fear
So Happy I Could Die
Sick Of Love
Knife In The Heart
Euphoria

LIVE DATES:

22nd May – Vivo Rio – Rio de Janeiro
24th May – C6 Festival – São Paulo
10th June – Malahide Castle – Dublin, Ireland+
11th June – KOKO, London
19th June – Metronome Festival, Prague
22nd June – Odeon of Herodes – Athens, Greece
28th June – Live is Live Festival, Belgium
2nd July – Roskilde Festival, Denmark
5th July – Finsbury Park – London^
10th July – Pohoda Festival – Slovakia
14th August – Way Out West, Sweden
16th August – Flow Festival, Finland
22nd August – Pstereo Festival – Trondheim, Norway
27th August – Rock En Seine, Paris, France
31st August – Superbloom Festival, Munich, Germany
19th September – Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*
* w/Robyn
^Wolf Alice
+Nick Cave