Thirty years after the Blue Album, Weezer bring The Gathering and their twentieth album, the Gold Album, to the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace.
Weezer, the Los Angeles band behind the Blue Album, bring The Gathering tour to Alexandra Palace in Wood Green on Saturday 22 May 2027. The night is built around their twentieth studio album, the Gold Album.
Rivers Cuomo moved from Connecticut to Los Angeles in 1989 and formed Weezer there in February 1992. Their debut, produced by Ric Ocasek and known as the Blue Album, arrived in May 1994.
“Buddy Holly” and “Say It Ain’t So” made it a multi-platinum record, and the “Buddy Holly” video won four MTV Video Music Awards. Pinkerton followed in 1996 and later rose to cult standing.
The band have since worked across guitar pop, from the Green Album to the orchestral OK Human. Their cover of Toto’s “Africa” reached number one on the American alternative chart in 2018.
In June 2024 they played The O2 arena on a British tour shared with The Smashing Pumpkins. The Gold Album, released in August 2026 with the single “Shine Again”, sits at the centre of this tour.
The show takes place in the Great Hall, which holds more than 10,000. The palace opened in 1875 and began the world’s first regular high-definition television service in 1936.