The long-dormant British rock group will helm standalone headline performances in Oxford and London surrounding a previously confirmed appearance at the forthcoming edition of Somerset’s ArcTanGent Festival.
Youthmovies have announced two reunion concerts to take place in 2026.
Today the long-dormant British rock group have revealed plans for two standalone headline concerts that will be held in their hometown of Oxford on 20th August and London on 3rd October, bookending a previously confirmed appearance at the forthcoming edition of Somerset’s ArcTanGent Festival. The band’s newly mapped performances will mark their first in almost ten years, having regrouped in a live setting on only two prior occasions since commencing a lengthy hiatus in 2010. Tickets for both concerts will be available to purchase from 16th July.
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies – later shortened to Youthmovies – formed in 2002 and became an influential, fringe-probing fixture of England’s independent musical landscape during their original eight-year tenure. Together the quintet deftly explored aspects of drone, krautrock, math rock, post-rock and more across several EPs and a solitary full-length studio album whilst sharing stages with such kindred spirits as Cats And Cats And Cats, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Foals (with whom singer-guitarist Andrew Mears was also a founding member), iForward, Russia!, Hope Of The States, Polaris and 65daysofstatic.
View the promotional posters for Youthmovies’ 2026 headline concerts below and find ticket information for the events here and here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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