Nessa Barrett is taking Tough Love on the road. The singer announced the European leg of her Tough Love Tour on Tuesday, September 29, with the 2027 run set to bring her new album to stages across Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe.
“THE TOUGH LOVE TOUR xx can’t wait to see all my bats in europe,” Barrett wrote while sharing the announcement, adding that tickets go on sale Friday, October 2, with an earlier presale available through a code linked in her Instagram bio. The European leg begins February 23 at Dublin’s National Stadium and runs through March 25 at Prague’s Velký sál Lucerna.
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The dates arrive just days after Nessa Barrett released Tough Love, her third studio album, on September 25 through Warner Records. The 11-track project is framed as a “sonic dark romantic experience,” with each song exploring a different interpretation of tough love, from learning to love yourself to being difficult to love and finding a relationship worth holding onto.
Musically, the album pushes further into the darker side of Barrett’s sound. Trip-hop textures, guitar-driven production and noir-inspired atmospheres shape the record, with influences ranging from Massive Attack and Portishead to Fleetwood Mac and Alice in Chains. “Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die” and “Bad Girls Never Die” served as the project’s leading singles.
The European tour will take Nessa Barrett through a mix of major markets and venues, beginning in Dublin before continuing to cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow and Nottingham. The itinerary also includes Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam before concluding in Prague, giving fans across Europe their first full headlining opportunity to hear Tough Love live.
For Nessa Barrett, the tour represents a return to a larger-scale headline cycle after a year that has largely centered on more intimate performances and support dates. Her most recent major headlining campaign was the 56-date Aftercare World Tour in 2025, which traveled through North America, South America, Europe, Oceania and Asia in support of her second album, Aftercare.
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