The xx are back with a Mexico City show in April for their first gig together in almost eight years.
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The trio, whose last gig together came in 2018, had already lined up a series of festival shows this year, including Coachella and Primavera Sound. But last week, they teased their “first show back in a while” that would take place on April 4, before their festival dates.
Today (February 24), they announced that it would take place in the Mexican capital at the Pepsi Center WTC. “It’s been a while since our last show together as The xx,” they began in an Instagram post. “In 2026, we share our music with you all live again.
“This is the start of a next chapter together, and there’s no better place to return than in front of our Mexican fans. We’ve always felt a deep connection to Mexico – the warmth, the openness, the energy from the crowd.”
They finished: “Thank you for waiting for us and we can’t wait to see you soon!”
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Last March, the band were seen in the studio together, following Jamie xx saying in 2024 that the trio were “having a good time” working on new material. In September last year, they shared some rehearsal footage following the Coachella line-up announcement.
And at last year’s LIDO Festival, which Jamie xx headlined, he reunited onstage with bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim.
Since their most recent album, 2017’s ‘I See You’, each of the three members have focused on their solo projects. Romy released her debut album ‘Mid Air’ as Romy in 2023, which she’s followed with a run of singles, while Sim dropped his first solo LP, ‘Hideous Bastard‘, the previous year, before putting out two singles last year.
Jamie xx’s second solo album, ‘In Waves’, came out in 2024, and featured his bandmates on the song ‘Waited All Night’.
Speaking to NME about new music from The xx at the BRIT Awards 2024, Romy revealed: “We’re just keeping it really open and we’re up for trying new things, but it sounds like us. That’s all I can say right now.”
‘I See You’, meanwhile, was released in January 2017 and became their second Number One album in the UK, also hitting Number Two in the US. NME gave the album a four-star review, writing: “the highlight is Romy’s pensive, vulnerable ballad ‘Performance’. “I’ll put on a performance/I’ll put on a brave face,” she confesses, accompanied by a single, guitar and scurrying violins. ‘I See You’ is not simply an album then, but a moment of realisation. The moment where The xx stop glancing shyly at their reflection and confront themselves in the mirror. What they discover is infectious.”
In November, meanwhile, they shared a deluxe version of their debut album, ‘xx’. They’re also involved in Rough Trade’s 50th anniversary celebrations, the iconic record store and label sharing a series of 50 essential albums spanning the five decades, including one of The xx’s releases.
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