Bob Dylan, the songwriter honoured with the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, plays five device-free nights at the Royal Festival Hall, his first London shows since 2024.
Bob Dylan, awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, plays five nights at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank between Thursday 3 and Tuesday 8 December 2026.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941, Dylan moved to New York in 1961. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan followed in 1963, and “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin’” became anthems of the civil rights and anti-war movements.
He then went electric on Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and released the six-minute single “Like a Rolling Stone”. Blood on the Tracks, Time Out of Mind and Rough and Rowdy Ways came later in a career of 125 million records sold.
Beside the Nobel Prize, he holds an Academy Award and ten Grammy Awards, and his early years became the biopic A Complete Unknown.
These are his first London shows since three nights at the Royal Albert Hall in 2024. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour arrives as a device-free show, with phones and watches sealed in pouches. His first performance in Britain was at The King & Queen pub in Fitzrovia, in 1962.