shame Are Coming to Spain With Cutthroat: Bilbao, Madrid and Vida Festival
South London’s shame are heading to Spain this summer with three dates on their Cutthroat tour — two club shows and a festival appearance — giving Spanish audiences a full run of chances to catch one of the most viscerally exciting live acts in contemporary post-punk. The fourth album, Cutthroat, came out on 5 September 2025 via Dead Oceans, produced by Grammy-winning John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen), and it marks a sharp, energised return to the raw confrontational sound that put the band on the map in the first place.
shame’s trajectory is one of the more interesting ones in recent British rock. The five-piece — vocalist Charlie Steen, guitarists Eddie Green and Sean Coyle-Smith, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes — formed as teenagers in South London and launched with Songs of Praise (2018), one of the debut albums of that year’s post-punk revival. Drunk Tank Pink (2021) debuted in the UK top ten, and Food for Worms (2023) was produced by Flood and reviewed with genuine enthusiasm by Pitchfork, NME and Uncut. Cutthroat strips things back and turns the volume up: twelve tracks, no patience for compromise. “It’s about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites, ” Steen has said. “Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now.”
Live, the band’s reputation precedes them. They’ve supported Foo Fighters and IDLES, toured across four continents, and their shows are consistently described as confrontational, physical and impossible to look away from. Spain gets three of those shows in the space of four days this July.
shame concerts in Spain: June 30, 2026 at Kafe Antzokia in Bilbao; July 1, 2026 at Sala But in Madrid — doors 9:00 PM, tickets at €28 plus booking fee; and July 3, 2026 at Vida Festival in Vilanova i la Geltrú. Madrid tickets available at livenation.es and Ticketmaster; Bilbao via dice.fm. Under-16s must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Tickets on sale now.
