My Bloody Valentine, Wolf Alice, Manic Street Preachers among Robert Smith-curated line up for Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall
The full-line up features a number of headliners and special guests, including Elbow and MRCY (23 March), Robert Smith’s Comedy Favourites – Jack Dee, Maisie Adam, Bridget Christie, Stewart Lee, Dara Ó Briain and more (24 March), Mogwai, Craven Faults, and Annika Kilkenny (25 March), Manic Street Preachers and The Joy Formidable for the 150th Teenage Cancer Trust show (26 March), My Bloody Valentine and Chvrches with a stripped back show (27 March), Garbage and Placebo with a stripped back show (28 March), and Wolf Alice and Nilüfer Yanya (29 March).
The Teenage Cancer Trust Royal Albert Hall fundraising concert series was launched and curated by Teenage Cancer Trust Honorary Patron Sir Roger Daltrey in 2000, who was knighted for twenty-five years of services to charity and music earlier this year. As Daltrey steps down, Robert Smith is the first in a series of guest curators to lead on raising money in support of the charity.
Teenage Cancer Trust is the only UK charity dedicated to providing specialised nursing care and support for young people with cancer, funding specialist nurses, youth workers and twenty-eight hospital units within the NHS. Last year’s concert series raised £2.05m, and next year comes with hopes of increasing that.
“Teenage Cancer Trust does absolutely amazing work, and l am very proud they asked me to be ‘Cureator’ of their March 2026 concerts at the RAH. I wanted to make it a truly unforgettable, unmissable week – a run of shows to dream about – and I am so grateful to all the artists who accepted my invitation to perform. These will be very special events; every band, both headliners and special guests, and every comedian too, is either legendary or at the top of their game… indeed in most cases, they are both! It is going to be a fabulous 7 nights, and I can hardly wait to experience it all. See you there!” Smith says of leading the curation for next year.
