South Arcade continue on the high of their breakthrough year for them with their latest infectiously catchy single SplitScreen, out now via BKM Artists in partnership with Atlantic US. The single comes ahead of their huge UK and European tour next year, with the last few remaining tickets available here.
Speaking of the single, South Arcade said, “SplitScreen is about that one person you know you shouldn’t be entertaining, but somehow you’re still waiting for their name to light up your phone at 2am. We liked the parallel between staying up all night gaming with someone and staying up all night talking to someone you probably shouldn’t be talking to. It’s that feeling of knowing you should log off, but you keep hitting ‘play again’ anyway. You’re chasing the high of it, even when you know how it ends. But the risk is what makes it exciting.” They continue, “We’re all big gamers in the band, and we love that translucent, coloured tech look from the 2000s. We wanted to capture the feeling of those icy, futuristic plastics and bring that same nostalgia into the sound of South Arcade. With SplitScreen, we’ve taken the sound in a more digital direction, but kept it tangible and human.”
SplitScreen follows on from previous single F.A.M.O.U.S, which has become that band’s fastest streaming song with over 1.3 million global streams in less than a month. Directed by Dogbrain, the official video for F.A.M.O.U.S is out now, featuring the band performing with an animated backdrop of futuristic neon lights displaying the track’s lyrics. The video became the band’s fastest viewed video with over 161,000 views on YouTube in less than a week. You can watch the official video for F.A.M.O.U.S here.
Ahead of their upcoming performance at Vans Warped Tour Orlando later this month, the band have been treating fans to sneak previews of their newer songs, with the band performing F.A.M.O.U.S at a run of festivals over the last few months. They’ve had a year of huge shows, with their first-ever Australian headline tour, Summer Sonic in Japan, a run supporting 5 Seconds Of Summer across EU and UK arenas, and summer festival dates across Europe including the main stage at Download, Warped Tour Long Beach and the Summer School Tour in the US. The band will be kicking off 2027 with a now sold-out night at the iconic O2 Academy Brixton in London on 25th February 2027, as well as hitting 11 other cities across UK and Ireland. See full dates below.
South Arcade have made 2026 the year they became impossible to ignore, generating over 230 million global streams and 305 million+ YouTube views, alongside a combined social following of over 1.8 million and more than 1.2 million monthly Spotify listeners. The band has sold over 40,000 tickets across the UK and EU, racked up over 10,000 plays and 130 million impacts across UK and EU radio to date. On BBC Radio 1 alone, they’ve notched 460+ plays, 5 playlist singles, an appearance at flagship live event Big Weekend, and slots on Radio 1 stages at multiple UK festivals, alongside 3 singles premiered as Radio 1’s ‘Hottest Record’.
Catch South Arcade live in 2027:
7th Feb – Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland
8th Feb – 3Olympia, Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
10th Feb – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
12th Feb – Manchester Academy, Manchester, UK
13th Feb – NX Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
14th Feb – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK
16th Feb – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
18th Feb – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
19th Feb – UEA, Norwich, UK
21st Feb – The Great Hall, Cardiff, UK
22nd Feb – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
25th Feb – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK
2nd March – Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
5th March – Lido, Berlin, DE
7th March – Proxima, Warsaw, PL
9th March – Szene, Vienna, AUT
10th March – Fuchs2, Prague, CZ
11th March – Strom, Munich, DE
13th March – Circolo Magnolia, Milan, IT
14th March – Plaza, Zürich, CH
16th March – CBE, Cologne, DE
17th March – Botanique, Brussels, BG
18th March – Backstage By The Mill, Paris, FR