American singer-songwriter Ethel Cain will head to Cardiff next summer as she extends her sold-out Willoughby Tucker Forever tour into 2026 adding dates across the UK and Europe.
This leg will see Cain perform some of her biggest headline shows including a date at TK Maxx presents Depot Live at Cardiff Castle on Friday June 19.
The announcement comes ahead of Cain’s sold-out 2025 UK/EU tour dates which kick off next Thursday at Manchester’s O2 Apollo and will see her headline five nights at London’s Eventim Apollo.
The Willoughby Tucker Forever 2025 tour dates sold out completely when they went on sale in March, with 170,000 tickets sold in just a few weeks, and Cain recently extended her run of Australia and New Zealand dates due to phenomenal demand. Earlier this month, Cain wrapped the rapturously acclaimed US leg of the tour and was announced for Coachella 2026.
Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You serves as a prequel to Cain’s globally adored 2022 debut album Preacher’s Daughter and recounts the story of Ethel’s first love, Willoughby Tucker, and their humid, laden romance. Cain produced and recorded the album over the past year but the writing of the songs themselves spans her entire career as Ethel Cain, with some dating from the earliest days of the project and its mythmaking.
Ethel Cain is the creation of Florida-born multidisciplinary artist Hayden Anhedönia. After years spent teaching herself to produce at home in the Florida panhandle and releasing various projects, Cain moved to Indiana and singlehandedly wrote, produced, recorded and mixed her acclaimed 2021 EP Inbredfrom the basement of the old church where she lived.
Cain’s debut album Preacher’s Daughter, a multimedia work that took more than four years to assemble, was released in May 2022 to praise from The New York Times, Vogue, W Magazine, V Magazine and more, with many critics naming the album one of the best of the year. Cain has spent the years since playing sold out shows and packed festival sets around the world; walking in New York and Paris fashion weeks and collaborating with Givenchy, Miu Miu and Calvin Klein; as well as collaborating and sharing stages with Florence + the Machine, Mitski and more.
The headlining show is presented as part of TK Maxx presents Depot Live at Cardiff Castle by promoters DEPOT Live and Cuffe and Taylor.
DEPOT Live promoter Nick Saunders said: “Announcing Ethel Cain is coming to Cardiff is a coup for us. This tour has sold out globally so we are delighted to have secured a date here at the Castle for summer 2026. This will be a very special show.”
Ethel Cain joins Alter Bridge’s Blackbird Festival and David Gray among the artists to be headlining Cardiff Castle next summer with more to be revealed.
Presale tickets are available at 10am Wednesday via depotlive.co.uk and all tickets go on general sale at 10am Friday via depotlive.co.uk and ticketmaster.co.uk
