Boris play their 2005 album Pink from start to finish at Concorde 2 in Brighton on Friday 16 October 2026. The Tokyo trio have built a UK and European run around the record’s twentieth birthday and called it Do You Remember The Pink Days?.
Brighton is the last of the UK dates, and the tour does not come back to Britain after it. Boris’s own tour listing marks five of the eight UK shows as sold out, puts a low ticket warning on London, and notes that extra tickets were added in Brighton once the first allocation went. Doors are at 7pm, the show finishes at 10pm, and Planning for Burial support every night of the run.
The last UK night of a tour built around a single record, played the way it was sequenced.
Pink, the 2005 album that carried Boris beyond Japan
Pink came out on 18 November 2005 on Diwphalanx in Japan. Southern Lord released it in the United States the following year, which is why it turns up in 2006 end of year lists rather than 2005 ones. Pitchfork placed it ninth in its fifty best albums of 2006. It is the record that moved Boris from a name passed around among heavy music obsessives to a band with an audience outside Japan.
The band is Takeshi on vocals, bass and guitar, Wata on guitar and effects, and Atsuo on drums. Boris formed in 1992 and have kept that line-up since 1996. They came up through the same Japanese underground music scene that produced the country’s noise rock and shoegaze bands, and on Pink they pulled drone, sludge, shoegaze and straight punk into one 47 minute run.
The album does not build the way heavy records usually build. It opens slowly, with the seven and a half minute “Farewell” drifting on reverb and feedback. The middle is where it turns fast and punishing, through “Woman on the Screen”, “Nothing Special” and “Electric”, several of them under three minutes. Then it stops moving for “Just Abandoned Myself”, ten minutes of the band playing itself into the ground.
What an album played in full actually changes
A band picking a setlist puts the big songs where the room needs them, usually one early to settle everyone in and one at the end to send them home. A band playing an album in order gives all of that up and keeps the sequence they settled on twenty years ago. On Pink that means the slow opening stays slow, the short fast run in the middle arrives in the middle, and the ten minute closer still lands last.
So the thing on sale here is the shape of the record rather than a greatest hits run, and the first seven and a half minutes will test anyone who turned up expecting the loud part straight away. That is the deal with an album show, and it is why the track order is worth knowing before you go.
Brighton closes the UK leg of the tour
The UK run covers seven cities across seven days, with two shows in Bristol on the same day. These are the dates and the status shown on the band’s own listing.
- 10 October, Bristol, Strange Brew. Two shows. The early one is given over to flood, the band’s 2000 album, rather than Pink
- 11 October, Newcastle, Digital
- 12 October, Glasgow, Oran Mor. Sold out
- 13 October, Leeds, Brudenell Social Club. Sold out
- 14 October, Manchester, Gorilla. Sold out
- 15 October, London, Electric Brixton. Low ticket warning
- 16 October, Brighton, Concorde 2. Extra tickets added
After Brighton the tour crosses back to mainland Europe, opening at Desertfest Belgium on 18 October and running through France, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, the Baltics, the Nordic countries and the Czech Republic until 16 November. It had already played Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Serbia before reaching Bristol, so the UK dates sit in the middle of the run rather than at the start.
Planning for Burial opens every date
Planning for Burial is the solo project of Thom Wasluck, from Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, running since 2005. He plays every instrument himself, on the recordings and on stage. The music sits between shoegaze, doom and post metal, and the most recent album, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, came out in 2025 on The Flenser. He is on every night of this tour, so the Brighton bill is two acts and no more.
Concorde 2, a seafront hall holding about 600
Concorde 2 occupies the Madeira Shelter Hall on Madeira Drive, on the Brighton seafront east of the Palace Pier. It holds around 600 standing, which is a small room for a band that fills far larger ones elsewhere and closer in size to the Tokyo live houses Boris played before Pink travelled. That is most of the appeal of this particular date.
Concorde 2
Planning the night
Doors are at 7pm and the show finishes at 10pm, both published on the ticket page, so a train home can be planned around the end time with some confidence. With one support act on the bill, that puts Planning for Burial on first and Boris across the back half of the evening. Neither the venue nor the promoter publishes stage times, so turning up for doors is the safe choice if you want both sets.
The room is standing throughout and there is no seated option. Concorde 2’s own listing puts the age limit at 14 and over, with under 16s accompanied by an adult. The venue is roughly a 20 to 25 minute walk from Brighton railway station along the seafront, or a short ride on the seafront buses, which stop close by.
Event details
- Event: Boris, Pink 20th Anniversary UK Tour, with Planning for Burial
- Date: Friday 16 October 2026
- Venue: Concorde 2, Madeira Shelter Hall, 286a Madeira Drive, Brighton BN2 1EN
- Doors: 7pm
- Ends: 10pm
- Tickets: £34.19 including a £1.25 transaction fee and a £1.00 e-ticket fee, against a face value of £29.50
- Admission: general admission, standing, 14 and over, under 16s accompanied by an adult
- Promoter: FORM Presents
- Part of: the Pink 20th anniversary tour, Do You Remember The Pink Days?
Tickets for the Brighton show are sold through Gigantic. Five of the eight UK dates have already gone, so the extra allocation here is not the one to sit on.
