BICEP are preparing to bring their next creative chapter to one of London’s most distinctive live settings. On July 31, 2027, the Belfast-born, London-based duo will headline Labyrinth on the Thames at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, marking their only London headline show of the year and the first major local performance built around their forthcoming album, SLUG.
The announcement places BICEP at the centre of Labyrinth’s 2027 programme and gives fans an early look at how the duo intend to translate their next studio project into a live experience. With SLUG arriving on January 29, 2027, the Greenwich performance is set to become an important meeting point between new material and the catalogue that has established BICEP as one of electronic music’s most distinctive acts.
‘SLUG’: A New Direction After Six Years
SLUG will be BICEP’s third studio album and their first full-length release in six years, following 2021’s Isles. That record reached No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and earned the duo BRIT Award nominations, marking a significant moment in their evolution from underground favourites into a major force across electronic music and the wider live circuit.
Rather than simply revisiting the formula that brought them success, BICEP have described SLUG as an opportunity to expand their sound. The album moves across rave, breakbeat, vocal-led compositions and ambient soundscapes, suggesting a project built around contrast rather than a single defining style.
“For this album we really wanted to massively broaden what we do. It felt like a new start for us,” the duo said. “We just wanted an album full of surprises and contrast.”
That statement offers a useful lens through which to understand the Greenwich show. BICEP’s music has long drawn strength from the tension between emotional melodic writing and the physical momentum of club culture. Their most compelling work can feel simultaneously euphoric and introspective, carrying the energy of a dance floor while leaving room for atmosphere, memory and reflection.
With SLUG, that balance appears ready to stretch into new territory. The combination of breakbeat, vocal material and ambient passages points towards a broader musical palette, one that could give the live show more room to shift between intensity and stillness.
BICEP LIVE Returns to London
The Greenwich performance also arrives during the renewed momentum behind BICEP LIVE. The duo are returning to the live format after a three-year break, with a sold-out performance scheduled at London’s Royal Albert Hall on November 26, 2026.
Their return is more than a resumption of touring. It marks the next phase of a project in which the relationship between sound, visual design and physical space is central to the experience. BICEP have built a reputation for performances that extend their studio work into immersive audiovisual environments, allowing their intricate productions to take on a different scale in front of an audience.
The July 2027 date will be one of the first two newly announced BICEP LIVE shows for the year. The other is scheduled for March 20 at New York’s Knockdown Center, giving the duo a pair of major appearances on opposite sides of the Atlantic before the album’s live identity develops further.
For London audiences, Greenwich carries particular significance. The Old Royal Naval College offers a striking architectural setting, far removed from the conventional club environment. Its historic buildings and riverside location create a different context for electronic music, placing contemporary production within a space shaped by centuries of history.
That contrast is part of the appeal. Electronic music has increasingly moved beyond clubs and festival fields into carefully selected cultural landmarks, but the strongest events do more than use an impressive backdrop. They create a relationship between the setting, the music and the audience. BICEP’s layered sound and visual approach could make the Greenwich location especially suited to that kind of experience.
From CHROMA to the Next Live Evolution
Before turning their attention fully towards SLUG, BICEP explored another side of their creative identity through CHROMA, a compilation and accompanying audiovisual tour that brought their work to more than half a million people worldwide.
The project demonstrated the scale of their international audience while giving them a platform to explore the relationship between club music and visual presentation. It also reinforced a central feature of BICEP’s approach: their live work is not simply a sequence of tracks reproduced on a larger sound system. It is an opportunity to rethink how their music functions when sound, image and performance operate together.
The new Greenwich show will continue that approach, with tracks from SLUG reworked for the stage alongside favourites from across their catalogue. That distinction matters. Studio recordings and live performances serve different purposes, and BICEP’s willingness to adapt their material creates the possibility of hearing familiar compositions in a new context.
The challenge will be to bring the album’s contrasts into a coherent performance. A project that moves between rave energy and ambient space demands more than a straightforward progression from one track to the next. Its live translation will depend on pacing, transitions and the interplay between moments of release and restraint.
For fans, that opens up an intriguing prospect: a show that looks forward without abandoning the musical identity that brought BICEP to this point.
Labyrinth on the Thames Builds on a Major 2026 Season
BICEP are the first act announced for Labyrinth on the Thames 2027, following a successful 2026 series that attracted 76,000 attendees across eight sold-out dates.
The previous programme featured a broad range of artists, including Moby, The Kooks, Peggy Gou, Dom Dolla, Overmono and Michael Bibi. The diversity of that lineup reflects the event’s position at the intersection of electronic music, live performance and large-scale outdoor experiences.
Labyrinth Events co-founders Nick Castleman and Michael Dicks made clear that BICEP were a particularly significant booking for the next edition.
“BICEP’s live show is one of the best out there,” they said. “This will be a bucket list moment for us.”
Their comments point to the importance of the performance beyond its status as another headline date. BICEP have developed a live identity that can command large audiences while retaining the intricate detail of their productions, making them a natural fit for an event that places considerable emphasis on atmosphere and setting.
The 2027 series is expected to expand over the coming months, with further artists to be announced. BICEP’s selection as the opening announcement establishes an ambitious starting point, particularly as the duo enter a new album cycle.
Tickets, Presale and What Comes Next
The BICEP LIVE performance takes place on Saturday, July 31, 2027, at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. It will be the duo’s only London headline show of the year.
Presale access opens on Thursday, October 29, at 10am, followed by general sale on Friday, October 30, at 10am. Fans can register for presale access through BICEP’s official website. Local residents will also have the opportunity to enter a ballot for discounted or free tickets through Labyrinth Events.
With SLUG due in January and the Greenwich show following in July, the event is positioned to capture BICEP at a particularly revealing point in their career. The album will have had time to establish itself with listeners, while the live arrangements will offer a chance to hear how its ideas have evolved beyond the studio.
BICEP’s return is not simply about bringing new music to a familiar audience. It is about testing the possibilities of a sound that continues to move between the intimate and the expansive, the rhythmic and the atmospheric. At the Old Royal Naval College, those contrasts will meet a setting unlike the spaces where much of their musical identity first took shape.
If SLUG represents a new beginning for the duo, Greenwich could become one of the first places where that new chapter fully comes into focus.