Live Aid musical Just For One Day is going on tour - full list of dates and how to get tickets

The record-breaking musical celebrating the emotional real story of the huge Live Aid charity concert is heading out on a UK and Ireland tour fresh from its run on the West End. TV audiences get a teaser of Just For One Day - the Live Aid Musical on the Royal Variety Performance on Sunday night, with Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and other real figures behind the charity concert making a spine-tingling appearance on stage.

And audiences across the country will soon get chance to see the musical itself when it hits the road for a major UK and Ireland tour which has just been announced. Tickets went on sale this week for the tour, which will start in March 2027 and visit cities including Leicester, Cardiff, Canterbury, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh and Birmingham.

Producers Jamie Wilson Productions say further venues and dates will be announced soon. The show is currently playing at London's Shaftesbury Theatre, with dates bookable until February 2026.

The musical explores the build up to the "music concert that united the world" on July 13, 1985. 40 years on from that huge global fundraising gig, the musical tells the story behind the music.

It features hit songs by Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Who, U2, Queen, Madonna, The Police, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross and more of the iconic artists who made history at simultaneous charitable concerts in London and Philadelphia. 

Live Aid was an unprecedented global music event that brought 1.5 billion people together, and they all have a story to tell about ‘the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world’.

Bob Geldof says of the show:"Just For One Day brilliantly reimagines why Live Aid worked then and why the humanity of that day still matters now. I'm delighted that more of the UK and Ireland will finally get to see this extraordinary and compelling musical.

"The reaction the show gets continually surprises and amazes me, standing ovations and people come back time and again, introducing the Live Aid story to new generations."

Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical finishes its run in London on Saturday 7 February 2026, ahead of a scheduled period of refurbishment at the Shaftesbury Theatre. The West End production opened in May 2025 following a successful North American run at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto and a record-breaking world premiere at London’s The Old Vic theatre where it became the theatre’s fastest selling musical ever.

The musical continues to support the work of The Band Aid Charitable Trust with £1.5million raised to date.

Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical is written by John O’Farrell and directed by Luke Sheppard, with musical supervision, arrangements and orchestration by Matthew Brind, choreography by Ebony Molina and casting by Stuart Burt CDG.

How to get tickets

Tickets are available now for the remaining West End dates until February 2026 at London's Shaftesbury Theatre via Ticketmaster here.

Tickets have also now gone on sale via ATG here for the UK and Ireland tour, with dates starting from March 2027 via ATG.

The dates for Manchester Opera House are on sale now via ATG here.

Full list of tour dates

March 31 - April 10, 2027 - Curve, Leicester

April 20 - 24, 2027  -  Wales Millenium Centre

April 27 - May 1, 2027 - Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

May 4 - 15, 2027 - Manchester Opera House

May 18 - 22, 2027 - Oxford New Theatre 

May 25 - 29, 2027 - Edinburgh Playhouse 

June 1 - 5, 2027 - Plymouth Theatre Royal

June 8 - 12, 2027 - Sunderland Empire 

June 22 - July 3,  2027 - Birmingham Alexandra

July 20 -24, 2027 - Nottingham Theatre Royal