They’re the songs we all sung, screamed and shouted in assembly – and after stirring up the nation with primary school bangers on his spring tour of the UK, TikTok sensation James B Partridge will be back for an encore, writes Haris Khawaja.
If you missed his show at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall last November, or you’re simply eager for more singalong nostalgia, the music teacher turned unlikely Glastonbury crowdpleaser returns to Leicestershire in the autumn with a performance at Loughborough Town Hall on September 17.
In total he’s announced 10 new dates to reprise his tour which begins in Gateshead tomorrow (March 14).
The show promises playground-era hit after hit from our jam-smeared, knee-scraped days of shorts and pigtails, with Partridge previously sending his audience spinning back in time with tunes like He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, This Little Light of Mine, Give Me Oil in My Lamp and Kumbaya.
“It’s like a school assembly, but you’re drunk!” says one of the giddy audience quotes on his website.
The spring tour dates are:
March 14, 2026 Gateshead Glasshouse
March 15, 2026 Scunthorpe Baths Hall
March 16, 2026 Manchester Albert Hall
April 3, 2026 Colchester Charter Hall
April 4, 2026 York Barbican
April 6, 2026 London Barbican
April 7, 2026 King’s Lynn Corn Exchange
April 8 , 2026 Bury St Edmunds Apex Theatre
April 10, 2026 Watford Colosseum
April 12, 2026 Southampton O2 Guildhall
April 14, 2026 Northampton Derngate Theatre
April 15, 2026 Woking New Victoria
April 16, 2026 Swansea Grand Theatre
April 18, 2026 Bristol Beacon
April 19, 2026 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
April 20, 2026 Blackpool Winter Gardens (Arena)
April 21, 2026 Edinburgh Assembly Rooms
April 23, 2026 Peterborough New Theatre
April 24, 2026 Birmingham Symphony Hall
April 26, 2026 Reading Hexagon
The newly added dates are:
September 11, 2026 Newport Riverfront Theatre
September 12, 2026 St Albans Albans Arena
September 13, 2026 Poole Lighthouse
September 15 2026 Basingstoke Anvil Arts
September 16, 2026 Blackburn King Georges Hall
September 17, 2026 Loughborough Town Hall
September 19, 2026 Darlington Hippodrome
September 20, 2026 Dunstable Grove Theatre
September 21, 2026 Leeds City Varieties
September 22, 2026 Doncaster Cast
Buy tickets via jamesbpartridge.com
