The Specials Concert & Tour History (Updated for 2026)

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Date	Concert	Venue	Location
Mar 23, 2013	The Specials Photos Setlists	The Warfield Theatre	San Francisco, California, United States
Mar 22, 2013	The Specials / Little Hurricane Setlists	The Majestic Ventura Theater	Ventura, California, United States
Mar 20, 2013	The Specials / Little Hurricane	Fox Theater Pomona	Pomona, California, United States
Mar 19, 2013	The Specials / Little Hurricane	House of Blues San Diego	San Diego, California, United States
Mar 18, 2013	The Specials / Little Hurricane The Specials	Club Nokia	Los Angeles, California, United States
Mar 15, 2013	The Specials / Cold War Kids / Lissie / Walk Off The Earth / The Mowgli's SXSW Setlists	Stubb's Bar-B-Q	Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 14, 2013

SXSW

Sóley / Lucy Rose / Avan Lava / Sky Ferreira / LA Velvet / Highasakite / Matthew E. White / Swim Deep / Bean / MS MR / The Specials / Ásgeir / The Yawpers / The Deer Tracks / Olafur Arnalds / Adam Lee / Bernhoft / CHVRCHES

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Various Locations

Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 13, 2013

The Specials

SXSW

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Mohawk

Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 13, 2013 –
Mar 16, 2013

SXSW 2013

Kenny Loggins / Iggy Pop And The Stooges / Amanda Palmer / Fitz & The Tantrums / Jared Leto / Allen Stone / BOY / Jim James / Jake Bugg / Depeche Mode / The Wild Seeds / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Zach Winters / Troubadour Kings / Ben Kweller / Kendrick Lamar / Natalie Maines / Tenacious D / The 1975 / The Specials / Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Vaudeville Smash / The Trews / Tegan & Sara / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Blue Sky Riders / Dave Grohl / Free Energy / Clive Davis / Eric Burdon / Stevie Nicks / James Hunter Six / Chuck Mead / Vintage Trouble / Meat Puppets / Lee DeWyze / Rodney Crowell / Robyn Hitchcock / Snoop Doog / Prince / The Flaming Lips / Eagles of Death Metal / Butch Walker / Bootsy Collins / The Zombies / Charles Bradley / Rick Springfield / The Mavericks / Dawes / Vampire Weekend / Andrew W.K. / Monster Truck / Ashley Monroe / ZZ Ward / JJ Grey & Mofro / Richard Thompson / Brendan Benson / Frank Turner / JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound / Robert Randolph & The Family Band / Kris Allen / Junior Brown / Zak Waters / John Fogerty / Royal Thunder / Ian Moore / Chuck D / A Tribe Called Quest Show all bands

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Multiple Venues

Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 12, 2013 –
Mar 17, 2013

SXSW 2013

Travis Scott / Major Lazer / Chance the Rapper / alt-J / The 1975 / Flume / MØ / Charli xcx / Cold War Kids / Aloe Blacc / CHVRCHES / Bonobo / Kodaline / Third Eye Blind / Capital Cities / Pentatonix / Skylar Grey / WIZKID / Toro Y Moi / Alex Clare / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Paloma Faith / Of Mice & Men / Rhye / Elle King / Lianne La Havas / Ra Ra Riot / The Zombies / Klaxons / The Specials / Borgore / The Heavy / The Airborne Toxic Event / Alien Ant Farm / Flatbush Zombies / MS MR / Wavves / Dawes / The Joy Formidable / Everything Everything / San Cisco / Foxygen / Lucy Rose / Cherub / Lissie / Death Grips / Generationals / Sky Ferreira / Surfer Blood / Houndmouth / The Crystal Method / The Revivalists / TOKiMONSTA / Hiatus Kaiyote / Poolside / Dead Prez / Robert DeLong / Osees / Darwin Deez / Jamie N Commons / Midlake / BloodPop® / Dan Croll / Empress Of / Snow Tha Product / Shout Out Louds / Born Ruffians / Peace / The Rubens / Hundred Waters / Los Lonely Boys / Young Fathers / Angel Haze / AER / Savages / The Orwells / Wild Child / Telekinesis / Delorean / The Enemy / Phony Ppl / Roo Panes / ZZ Ward / The Milk Carton Kids / Thao & The Get Down Stay Down / Josh Rouse / Jack Savoretti / High Highs / Kid Koala / Alpine / Reverend and the Makers / Noah Gundersen / Jetta / Palma Violets / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Thurston Moore / Serena Ryder / The Mavericks / Young Guns / Little Green Cars / Daedelus / Luke Sital-Singh / J Roddy Walston And The Business / Amtrac / Kill Paris / Richard Thompson / Delta Rae / Said the Whale / JD McPherson / Cate Le Bon / The Dangerous Summer / The Dear Hunter / Reptar / Hurray for the Riff Raff / Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Dune Rats / The Soft Moon / Lusine / Flunk / The Hood Internet / Middle Class Rut / Young Galaxy / Butch Walker / Fossil Collective / Murder By Death / Dessa / Throne / Blondfire / Ben Sollee / The Little Ones / Reignwolf / Wake Owl / The Flatliners / Delicate Steve / the Gourds / The Real Tuesday Weld / Buck 65 / Night Beats / Loco Dice / Los Claxons / The Whigs / Bonde do Rolê / Leif Vollebekk / Derek Minor / Wildcat Wildcat / Jenny Owen Youngs / Petite Noir / D33J / Omen / The Virginmarys / Dirt Nasty / Ki:Theory / Aoife O'Donovan / Kadavar / Coma / MC Lars / TCTS / Keep Shelly in Athens / sarkodie / Trails and Ways / Caitlin Rose / Patrick Sweany / Siddhartha / Le Castle Vania / Robyn Hitchcock / Dauwd / Fallulah / Device / Absynthe Minded / Jacco Gardner / Amanda Shires / SKATERS / S U R V I V E / Blaudzun / Kd / The Crookes / Marit Larsen / The Coathangers / Scotty / Girls Names / Sharks / The Kids / Little Barrie / Hayden / Elizabeth & the Catapult / Bo Saris / DJ Yoda / Mitzi! / Imaginary Cities / Futurebirds / Brazos / Intergalactic Lovers / Ratking / Black Violin / Charlie Mars / Yasmine Hamdan / Starkey / Madi Diaz / The Warlocks / Nobunny / Sweatshop Union / Whitehorse / Alpha Rev / SPEAK / Scott H. Biram / Two Fresh / Robert Ellis / Allo Darlin' / James Hunter / Royal Bangs / Royal Canoe / Compuphonic / William Tyler / JC Brooks Band / Radkey / Girl Unit / The Technicolors / Gripin / Man or Astro‐Man? / Paper Lions / Sticky / Fat Tony / NZCA LINES / Ghosts / Man Without Country / Mother Falcon / Pro-Pain / Dame / The Black Atlantic / Fresno / Hooded Fang / Kaos / Desert Noises / Eminence / The Darcys / Tall Ships / Kamp! / Jam City / Prince Rama / Skinny Lister / PAWS / Rah Rah / Roach Gigz / Rey Pila / Turbo Fruits / Royal Thunder / Laura Cantrell / Solids / The Escape / Ed Kowalczyk / Jaill / Lay Low / Paul Thomas Saunders / Gap Dream / Empires / Mount Moriah / Delorentos / Strangers / Liquits / So Many Wizards / Syd Arthur / Duologue / Woodpigeon / Hands / P.S. I Love You / Buffalo Killers / Declan O'Rourke / Phèdre / World's End Press / L-VIS 1990 / Kiev / Tashaki Miyaki / Born Gold / Tamikrest / V.I.P. / Las Cafeteras / Jackie Chain / Kassidy / Georgia Fair / Hudson Moore / Kinski / Spindrift / Redinho / Blackchords / Glass Towers / Audacity / Steve Poltz / The Chicharones / T Bird and the Breaks / Fort Lean / Ain't No Love / Joséphine / Imam Baildi / Kathryn Calder / Fly Union / Gringo Star / The Eastern Sea / Gold & Youth / Sore Losers / Goldheart Assembly / Fuck Art, Let's Dance! / New Kingston / Jay Nash / Kim Janssen / Deadstring Brothers / Crucified Barbara / Amelia Curran / Ume / Matt Pryor / Lovely Bad Things / Mujeres / Simian Ghost / Gallops / Zeale / Hunters / Soul Khan / Bareto / Mista Silva / Wildlife Control / Waco Brothers / The Blank Tapes / Team Spirit / Terakaft / Nguzunguzu / Swear & Shake / Dana Falconberry / Miracles of Modern Science / Einherjer / Snowblink / Feathers / The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer / Social Studies / The Majority Says / Delta / Reid / Jessy Bulbo / Wheeler Brothers / Dead Gaze / Team Ghost / Guy Forsyth / The Blind Shake / Lys / Tito Lopez / Glossary / Agent Ribbons / Brainticket / Eddie Spaghetti / Dog Bite / Las Robertas / The Wealthy West / The Crowns / Ok Sweetheart / Gross Magic / The Wall / Shout Out Out Out Out / Tying Tiffany / His Clancyness / Capsula / Puerto Candelaria / Levek / Golden Boys / Svavar Knútur / The 4onthefloor / Max Gomez / Popstrangers / Evans the Death / LostAlone / We Are the Grand / Bearhug / GT GARZA / Schaffer The Darklord / Tom Lark / Plastic Flowers / Still Life Still / VietNam / Let's Buy Happiness / American Sharks / Juan Perro / Ivan & the Parazol / Squarehead / Bwani Junction / Sea Pinks / This Many Boyfriends / Amy Speace / Conveyor / Zorch / La Migra / Meat Market / Franny Glass / The Cambodian Space Project / Knight Riderz / Archie Pelago / Raleigh Moncrief / Grandchildren / Telebit / Pyyramids / Nu Sensae / Tango In the Attic / Dirty Ghosts‏ / Kid Karate / The Balconies / Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / Christeene / Ghost Wave / Magnus Lindgren / Dignan / Davinci / The Halluci Nation / Agrupación Cariño / So Cow / Cosmos People / Sugar Army / Marianne Dissard / Gosteffects / Doughbeezy / Chris Stamey / Skewby / Thierry "Titi" Robin / Bombay (NL) / Sleep Good / The Evaporators / Wet Nuns / Devin Miles / Washington Irving / Children Of The Night / Hawk Eyes / Paceshifters / Chris Mills / Panorama / Body Parts / Solemn Sun / Y Niwl / Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino / Nyzzy Nyce / Liber Teran / Fine Times / רונה קינן / Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät / Psycatron / Bestial Mouths / Diemonds / Weapon / Will Brennan / SISU / Carrie Elkin / Five Mile Town / Chris Carrabba / The Niceguys / 24-7 / Drink to Me / New Ivory / Eaux / Max Capote / Gang Do Eletro / K-Holes / Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale / Kestrels / Young Hines / China Rats / Sonámbulo / The Wordburglar / Shark Week / Not In The Face / Danny B. Harvey / Rosco Bandana / Grooveline Horns / Aliment / SL Jones / Betunizer / White Violet / Akafrank / Hi Rhythm / Mookie Jones / Summer Flake / Harry Taussig / Holy Balm! / Denney and the Jets / Jamieson / Malena Muyala / Mister Loveless / Jigg / Ana Alcaide / Taj Weekes & Adowa / More Or Les / Missy Raines / Frank Smith / Constantina / Windy City / Ruby Jane / Alice Gerrard / Sicksea / Manic Sheep / Crew Peligrosos / Kool Thing / Gashcat / Erin Ivey / **WAMBA** / IronHorse / Chelle Rose / Crew54 / Sean Falyon / The Wellspring / Gonzalo Bergara Quartet / OMG & Shockwave / Worldwide / Spires That In The Sunset Rise / Hello Caller / Good Field / Christopher Rees / Teen Runnings / Roosh Williams / Mornings / Sexy Fi / Stereo Mike / Billionaire B / John Wesley Coleman / Cinemacinco / Midday Veil / Lions In The Street / Kab. / Nik Turner's Hawkwind / J. Nics / Andrew Collberg / Tara Priya / Dubb Sicks / Missions / Sol Okarina / Riders Against the Storm / Bernie Worrell Orchestra / Felo / Salesman / Cartright / Iamsu! & The HBK Gang / Vockah Redu / Trummors / Rai P / Jeff Lofton / Four Minutes Til Midnight / Grace London / Suiseinoboaz / Jung People / Kool & Together / The Uprising Roots / Big Sid / Ancestor / Diego Peralta / Plaided / The Rite Flyers / Agonizer / Yung Quis / Nosaprise / Baishui / Les Rav / Farzad Golpayegani / Types (UK) / Dante Higgins / Marcelo Fruet & os Cozinheiros / Cory Kendrix / Gabriel Sullivan & Taraf De Tucson / Onehunnidt / Dustin-Prestige / Peers / Lilly Hiatt & the Dropped Ponies / Josy / Subkulture Patriots / The Copper Gamins / DJ Abrantee / Uzoy / DJ Grip / Pulenta / SERTIFIED / Pirates Canoe / Halaska / Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 band / Kay Leotard / Kids From Nowhere / The Adamski Kid / Terry Waldo / 8 kilometros / Max Burgundy / Frontier Live / Pedro Menendez Fusion Ensemble / R3venge Of The Nerds / Charan Po Rantan / Karma Jonze / Transcription of organ music / R.D. Peoples / Papachina / The Black Butterflies / Nicolás Santos / WALL100 / K.O. Boyz / Daniel Tatita Marquez / The Seaside Swifts Show all bands

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South by Southwest (SXSW)

Austin, Texas, United States

Mar 11, 2013

The Specials

US & Canada Tour

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The Vic Theatre

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Mar 11, 2013 –
Mar 16, 2013

Hype Hotel (SXSW 2013)

Passion Pit / Youth Lagoon / The Specials / Jim James / Disclosure / Solange / Toro Y Moi / Everything Everything / Cold War Kids / Ryan Hemsworth / Ra Ra Riot / The Polyphonic Spree / Austra / Sky Ferreira / Hundred Waters / CHVRCHES / St Lucia / Foxygen / Phosphorescent / Laura Mvula / Trails and Ways / Metz / Azari & III / Mac DeMarco / Goldroom / Flume / SOHN / Little Green Cars / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Shlohmo / Vacationer / Charli xcx / Blue Hawaii / Empress Of / FIDLAR / HAERTS / Sir Sly / Rudimental / Fort Lean / Jerome LOL / Ivan & Alyosha / Bear Mountain / Fear of Men / Antwon / John Talbot / Calvin Love / Caveman / MØ / The Orwells / Mister Lies / Kodaline / MS MR / Jake Bugg / Kitty / Bleeding Rainbow / Kids These Days / Kastle / Chrome Sparks / Ski Lodge / Monster Rally / Wildcat! Wildcat! Show all bands

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Whitley

Austin, Texas, United States

Aug 12, 2012

Blur / The Specials / New Order / Bombay Bicycle Club

2012 Olympics - The Closing Ceremony Celebration Concert

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Hyde Park

London, England, United Kingdom

Aug 09, 2012

Echo & the Bunnymen / The Specials / Public Image Ltd. / Luc Van Acker / Trash Radio

Lokerse Feesten 2012

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Lokeren, Flanders, Belgium

Show Duplicates for Aug 09, 2012

Aug 03, 2012 –
Aug 12, 2012

Lokerse Feesten 2012

The Beach Boys / UB40 / Röyksopp / Echo & The Bunnymen / The Specials / In Flames / Suede / Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley / Orbital / Trentemøller / Selah Sue / Public Image Ltd / Black Box Revelation / The Australian Pink Floyd Show (Tribute to Pink Floyd) / School Is Cool / 'T Hof Van Commerce / Gorillaz Sound System Show all bands

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Lokerse Feesten

Lokeren, Flanders, Belgium

Jul 28, 2012

The Specials

FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL '12

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Naeba Ski-jou

Yuzawa, Japan

Jul 27, 2012 –
Jul 29, 2012

Fuji Rock 2012

Radiohead / Twenty One Pilots / Elvin Bishop / Ed Sheeran / The Kooks / Owl City / The Shins / Justice / Galactic / Jack White / Caribou / Fucked Up / Explosions in the Sky / The Stone Roses / Gossip / Purity Ring / M. Ward / The Field / The Specials / Django Django / Yael Naïm / Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / AraabMuzik / Michael Kiwanuka / The Very Best / Electric Guest / Toots & The Maytals / Buddy Guy / Cloud Nothings / Busy P / Spiritualized / Beady Eye / At the Drive-In / Ocean Colour Scene / Howler / Los Lonely Boys / Refused / Asparagus / Agoria / Factory Floor / Toe / Ernest Ranglin / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / Caravan / Dumpstaphunk / Annie Mac / The Heartbreaks / Boom Boom Satellites / Swiss Lips / Kid Massive / DJ Kentaro / Group_Inou / A Flood Of Circle / HEY-SMITH / Chthonic / Mop of Head / Onda Vaga / Tokiko Kato / Shibusashirazu Orchestra / Eli Walks / Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 / FRONTIER BACKYARD / D.o.t. / Ray Davies & Band / Mouse on the Keys / Wise Man / Hoshino Gen / Inoue Yosui / James Iha / Orquesta Libre / Goth-Trad / Ol Killer / Cobra / Mono / Che Sudaka / New Cool Collective / My Best Fiend / サカナクション / Steve Kimock / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Quasimode / Denki Groove / Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band / Idjut Boys / Acidman / Chatmonchy / The Back Horn / Special Others / DE DE MOUSE / Mimi Maura / The Trojans / THA BLUE HERB / Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro / Rovo / The Birthday / Dirty Dozen / Third Coast Kings / Humbert Humbert / Hiromi Trio Project / Lindigo / DJ BAKU / James Blake (DJ Set) / Locofrank / lostage / Cero Show all bands

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Fuji Rock Festival

Niigata, Japan

Jul 21, 2012

The Specials

Arena Concerti - Fiera Milano

Rho, Lombardy, Italy

Jul 13, 2012

The Specials

Musilac

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Esplanade du Lac

Aix-les-Bains, France

Jul 13, 2012 –
Jul 15, 2012

Musilac 2012

blink-182 / Two Door Cinema Club / Franz Ferdinand / Lenny Kravitz / Alabama Shakes / LMFAO / Far East Movement / Metronomy / Garbage / The Kills / Bat For Lashes / Band of Skulls / The Specials / Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / fanfarlo / Noel Gallagher / Chinese Man / Yuksek / Orelsan / Shaka Ponk / Moriarty / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue / Revolver / Skip the Use / Zulu Winter / Lescop / Le Peuple de l'Herbe / Dionysos / Jean-Louis Aubert / Don Rimini / Miossec / The Lanskies / Olivier Depardon / Daguerre / Benebar Show all bands

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Esplanade Du Lac

Chambéry, France

Show Duplicate for Jul 13, 2012

Jul 08, 2012

The Specials

Festival les Deferlantes

Parc de Valmy

Argelès-sur-Mer, France

Jul 07, 2012

The Specials

Cruïlla Barcelona

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Parc del Fòrum

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Jul 07, 2012 –
Jul 10, 2012

Les Déferlantes

Mika / Bénabar / Camille / The Ting Tings / Metronomy / Olivier Depardon / Sting / Shaka Ponk / The Specials / Daniel Darc / Fixers / Jehro / The Chase / Texas / Imany / Charlie Winston / Catherine Ringer / Izia / Gogol Bordello / The Lanskies / Franz Ferdinand / Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Skip the Use / Dionysos / Selah Sue / The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion / Zulu Winter / Givers / Stuck In the Sound Show all bands

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Parc de Valmy

Argeles, Occitanie, France

Jun 11, 2012

The Specials

Docklands

Cork, Munster, Ireland

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2026	2 concerts
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2021	27 concerts
2020	3 concerts
2019	88 concerts
2018	5 concerts
2017	30 concerts
2016	37 concerts
2015	7 concerts
2014	25 concerts
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2000	4 concerts
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