As The Maccabees<\/a> celebrate the 10th anniversary of their last album \u2018Marks To Prove It\u2019<\/a>, guitarist Felix White caught up with NME<\/em> to reflect on that record and tell us about the band\u2019s plans for new music and more gigs in 2026.<\/p>\n Last week, the reunited indie veterans announced details of a series of summer shows<\/a> to take place in July 2026, including a headline slot at Truck Festival<\/a>, plus dates in London, Cornwall, Bristol, Brighton and Leeds.<\/p>\n The new dates follow The Maccabees returning to the stage this summer for their first gigs since the band split in 2017. After kicking off that run with a charity gig at London\u2019s The Dome<\/a>, they played a Park headline slot at Glastonbury Festival<\/a>, held a series of smaller headline gigs across Europe, the UK and Ireland, and capped things off with a one-day takeover of All Points East<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone was just a bit stunned at how good it felt,\u201d White told NME<\/em> of this summer\u2019s reunion. \u201cIt was almost like the music that we\u2019d made when we were younger needed to sit and wait and not be fiddled with for so long. And so when we came and did it as older people, there was something more completed about it than when we were younger.\u201d<\/p>\n The guitarist continued to explain that, now, The Maccabees\u2019 original run felt \u201clike it happened to a completely other person, especially as the chunk of time that we had away from each other felt like we were all becoming different people\u201d.<\/p>\n One thing that remained the same, though, was how White experienced the gigs. \u201cWhen we were younger, [I had this] perception of time changing \u2013 it feels like time really slowed down,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though things are happening very fast, it all stretches. I really had that [this year], especially at All Points East. You\u2019re playing, and everything\u2019s happening really fast, but you have these moments to sit inside it and think, \u2018Oh my god, I\u2019m here, and this is wild\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n The band\u2019s return next summer will kick off at London\u2019s Alexandra Palace Park \u2013 an almost-mirroring of their final shows in 2017, which ended indoors at Alexandra Palace<\/a>. \u201cIt was talked about a bit to play the indoor Ally Pally, but it almost felt a bit like sacrilege,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe felt like you couldn\u2019t really go back in and do anything that compared to the feeling of that, but the idea of going outside \u2013 those shows are so great, because when you look out, you can see over London. It would be cool if people that had been at those last Maccabees shows eight or nine years ago were back at these ones [next year] and reflecting on who they were then and who they are now.\u201d<\/p>\n The dates will also see the five-piece perform in Brighton for the first time in 11 years. The coastal city is where the band got their start, and their return will see them headline a gig on the beach. \u201cWhen The Maccabees first happened, we were all in Brighton and we got this little ball of momentum and energy going where you play two or three times a week, and there was a period of time where we were just the band in Brighton that supported bands that came through,\u201d White recalled, citing gigs opening for the likes of Arctic Monkeys<\/a>, Maximo Park<\/a> and The Strokes<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a chunk of time where it felt like things were happening really quickly for us and there were lots of young people coming to the shows, and so obviously it\u2019s always going to be a really special place to us. We got banned from playing Concorde 2 because kids were hanging off the top of things, and people still come up to me and say, \u2018I was the one that got thrown off the stage\u2019. We\u2019ve lived our whole lives since then and to be doing those outdoor gigs were for really big, proper bands, so it\u2019d be nice to go back in time and tell those people, \u2018You\u2019re going to be doing the beach\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NMEAR_NME-GLASTO-2025-THE-MACCABEES-LIVE-DEREK-BREMNER-9@2000x1270.jpg\")