One album. One tour. It’s a Winnerbäck autumn filled with a longing for spring.
One album. One tour. A Winnerbäck autumn filled with a longing for spring
In spring 2026, Lars Winnerbäck traveled to southern France and Provence together with his beloved live band. Their destination was La Fabrique, the recording studio where artists such as Radiohead, Nick Cave and Mika have created classics.
"The first song I wrote was Greetings, which in many ways summed up what the rest of the album would come to be about – spring, light and love in relation to darkness, death, and a crazy world around us.
Provence is a pretty good place to be. Especially in May, and especially together with the band and Johannes. It became a warm, honest, and organic record."
/Lars Winnerbäck
On May 29, we get the first taste of the new music with the release of the song Greetings, and on September 25, Lars Winnerbäck’s fifteenth album, Longing for Spring, produced by Johannes Runemark, will be released.
The band consists of:
Jonna Löfgren – drums
Jerker Odelholm – bass
Mikaela Hansson – piano, synth
Carl Ekerstam – guitar
Staffan Johansson – guitar
Sandra Widman – vocals
This autumn, Winnerbäck and his band will hit the road across Sweden and Norway on a major arena tour – the first since 2023. The tour kicks off in classic fashion in Linköping, followed by stops including Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Malmö Arena, Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Oslo Spektrum, and many more.
"This autumn we're heading out on an arena tour again – finally. We’ll weave together the old and the new. And I’m truly, humbly grateful that I’ve been allowed to do this for thirty years. Hoping for thirty more."
/Lars Winnerbäck
Tour dates:
23 Oct – Linköping, Saab Arena
24 Oct – Eskilstuna, Volvo CE Arena
30 Oct – Örebro, Conventum
31 Oct – Gävle, Monitor ERP Arena
6 Nov – Gothenburg, Scandinavium
7 Nov – Malmö, Malmö Arena
13 Nov – Karlstad, Löfbergs Arena
14 Nov – Halmstad, Halmstad Arena
21 Nov – Stockholm, Avicii Arena
27 Nov – Trondheim, Trondheim Spektrum
28 Nov – Oslo, Oslo Spektrum
Tickets go on sale at winnerback.se on Tuesday, June 2 at 12:00 PM.
About Lars Winnerbäck:
In 2023, Winnerbäck released the album Neutron Star, created together with Joakim Berg and Martin Sköld from Kent. For the album, Lars Winnerbäck received the award for Rock Album of the Year at the Grammisgalan 2024.
In autumn 2023, Winnerbäck embarked on a sold-out arena tour, and in summer 2024 more than 140,000 people attended his major summer tour. In 2025, he set a new attendance record at Rosendal Garden Party with his only performance of the summer, playing in front of 15,850 people.
For 30 years, Winnerbäck has brought Swedish melancholy to the stage and given words to the emotions of an entire generation. Across fourteen studio albums, he has developed his own instantly recognizable language and even coined what might be Sweden’s most Swedish word of all: tandläkarväder (“dentist weather”).
