N-Dubz return with The Legacy Tour of UK arenas in 2027

Back on the road, in the round

N-Dubz, the Camden trio of Tulisa Contostavlos, Dappy and Fazer, are returning to UK arenas in February and March 2027 with The Legacy Tour. It is their first tour since the reunion shows of 2022, and the first time in their career that they will play in the round, on a stage in the middle of the arena floor with the audience on every side.

The tour was announced on 2 October 2026 with a short video in which each member of the group is approached by two men in suits and sunglasses before the words The Legacy Tour appear on screen, PA Media reported. The first announcement listed eight cities. A second night at The O2 in London followed, and by 8 October the Official Charts Company was listing nine dates.

The announcement describes the show as a celebration of the songs that made N-Dubz a household name and the music of their return, with the 360-degree staging meant to bring fans closer to the group than before. Capital Xtra said the set would be built around hits such as Number 1 and I Need You.

Max Persad reported this first for Official Charts. Checked against Official Charts: N-Dubz to make their return to the stage as they announce The Legacy Tour.

The nine dates

The tour opens at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Thursday 25 February 2027. It then visits the Utilita Arena in Newcastle on Saturday 27 February, the Utilita Arena in Sheffield on Sunday 28 February and the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on Monday 1 March.

The two London shows are at The O2 on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 March. The group then play the Utilita Arena in Cardiff on Sunday 7 March and Co-op Live in Manchester on Tuesday 9 March, and the tour closes at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham on Wednesday 10 March.

An artist presale was set for 10am on Wednesday 7 October, and the general sale for 10am on Friday 9 October, through the promoter AEG Presents, according to the Official Charts Company. No support acts have been named, and no dates in Ireland or Northern Ireland have been announced.

Where N-Dubz came from

N-Dubz were formed in Camden, north London, in 2000. Tulisa and Dappy are cousins, and Fazer was Dappy's schoolfriend, as Emine Saner wrote in a Guardian interview with Contostavlos in August. Tulisa grew up an only child in Camden with a mother who had schizoaffective disorder, and told Saner that caring for her shaped every part of her life. Her parents had both been musicians.

Their debut album, Uncle B, came out in 2008. It reached Number 11 on the Official Albums Chart and spent 52 weeks on the chart, according to the Official Charts Company. Its singles included Ouch, which peaked at 22, and Papa Can You Hear Me, which reached 19.

The breakthrough came in 2009. Number 1, a single by the grime artist Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz, went to the top of the Official Singles Chart that spring and stayed there for three weeks. Later that year the group released their second album, Against All Odds, which reached Number 6, and its single I Need You climbed to Number 5, the highest-charting single in their own name.

A third album, Love.Live.Life, followed in 2010 and reached Number 7. Its singles included Best Behaviour, which reached Number 10, and Girls. In between, the group reached Number 14 with Playing With Fire, recorded with Mr Hudson, and Number 6 with We Dance On, their song with Bodyrox. Uncle B and Against All Odds were both certified platinum in the UK, Rolling Stone UK reported.

An 11-year break

The group went on hiatus in 2011. Over the next decade the three members went in different directions, as Elizabeth Aubrey set out for NME. Dappy released a solo album, Bad Intentions, in 2012. Fazer released solo material and worked as a producer. Tulisa released her own solo album, The Female Boss, in 2012, and became a judge on The X Factor, where she had joined the panel at 24, and Dappy appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, PA Media noted.

Her years at the top of television ended in a court case that has shaped the rest of her life. In 2013 the undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, known as the Fake Sheikh, posed as a film producer offering her a lead role in a film, and the Sun on Sunday then claimed she had agreed to help him obtain cocaine. She was charged with being concerned in the supply of a class A drug, which she denied.

The trial collapsed in 2014, after the judge ruled it was likely that Mahmood had manipulated evidence and then lied under oath, RTÉ reported. Mahmood was later jailed for 15 months for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Contostavlos told The Guardian this year that her career never really recovered from the sting, and that some brands still will not work with her. She told the Cheltenham audience last year that Simon Cowell, who created The X Factor, had been supportive at the time of the trial and afterwards invited her back on to the show as a guest judge.

The 2022 reunion

Reports of a reunion surfaced at the start of 2022, and in May the group confirmed it. They released a comeback single, Charmer, on 19 May, and put the Back To The Future Tour on sale the next day, Will Richards reported for Rolling Stone UK. The announcement promised a song that was "instantly recognisable as an N-Dubz song".

The first run of ten arena dates in November 2022 began in Newcastle and ended in Manchester. Demand led to second nights in several cities, and by the end of May NME was listing more than 20 shows running into December, with extra dates at The O2, the AO Arena in Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle and Liverpool. RTÉ described the reunion tour as having sold out in minutes.

The group also released a fourth album, Timeless, that year. It reached Number 6 on the Official Albums Chart, matching the peak of Against All Odds, while Charmer reached Number 32 on the singles chart. Contostavlos told Saner the reunion helped her in a very practical way: she said there had been months before it when she had to sell a watch to pay her rent.

What Tulisa said would happen next

The Legacy Tour was trailed a year ago. Speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October 2025, Contostavlos said there would be "another round in 2027", and that she had needed a year off, RTÉ reported. She was at the festival to talk about her book, Judgement, which gives her account of the sting, the trial and its aftermath, drawn from a diary she kept during the case.

Since then she has become one of the more prominent celebrity voices on press regulation. She works with the campaign group Hacked Off, and has started her own petition, Fix the Press, calling for an independent regulator that the press does not control, fund or appoint, with powers to investigate and fine newspapers. Saner reported in August that the petition had nearly 25,000 signatures, and that Paramount+ is making a three-part documentary following her life and the campaign.

Contostavlos told The Guardian that the campaign was "just about fairness", and that she wanted to stop the same thing happening to other people. Saner noted that some people see any creeping state regulation of the press as dangerous. Contostavlos said the worry on both sides came down to who holds power, and that her aim was a regulator that was truly independent.

Prices we are tracking

We have tracked all nine dates on StubHub since they were listed in early October. At 8.25am on Friday 30 October the cheapest tickets were similar across most of the run. Manchester was lowest at £70, followed by the second O2 night on 5 March at £71.72, the first O2 night at £73.33, Newcastle at £75.65 and Nottingham at £77.28. Glasgow was at £82.73 and Sheffield at £100.71. All of these are listing prices, plus StubHub booking fees at checkout.

Two dates stood apart. The cheapest ticket for Cardiff was £153 and for Birmingham £135, against lows of £77.78 and £77.28 for those shows earlier in the month. On resale a handful of listings changing can move the cheapest price a long way in either direction.

Prices for the London shows have barely moved. The first O2 night has ranged between £73.33 and £86.67 since 7 October, and the second between £71.72 and £77.64. Newcastle had been as high as £122.90 before settling in the mid £70s. The live prices for each date print below this story and are checked hourly.

What we do not know yet

The group have not said whether new music will come with the tour, or whether The Legacy Tour is a farewell or the start of another chapter. Contostavlos told The Guardian she was writing a fantasy novel and starting a property company, and said she now had "a disinterest in fame", though she added that she would still take on work if the money was right and it did not feel like selling her soul.

Support acts, set times and any further dates have not been announced. If more shows are added, we will add them to this story. You can set an alert on any of the nine dates and we will email you when the cheapest price for your date falls.

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