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Professor Brian Cox is bringing his ‘most ambitious’ live arena show to date to Leeds
Ready to have my mind blown.
Daisy Jackson -
29th September 2025 
The legendary Professor Brian Cox is coming to Leeds with a brand-new arena show, and he says it’s his most ambitious one to date.
The physicist and presenter will be bringing Emergence to the First Direct Bank Arena next year as part of a huge world tour.
Prof Brian Cox has spent his entire career bringing fascinating, ground-breaking science into the public realm through TV programmes, radio, and live shows.
That’s included performing his smash-hit show Horizons to nearly half a million people, winning the Peabody Award for Wonders of the Solar System, to appearing in the hit BBC series The Planets.
He’s headlined cultural festivals, sold out arenas globally, and now he’s ready to do it all again with Emergence.
This show all began in the winter of 1610, when Johannes Kepler was crossing Prague’s Charles Bridge when he noticed a snowflake land on his arm. Why, he asked, are all snowflakes six-cornered? “I do not believe,” he wrote, “that even in a snowflake, this ordered pattern exists at random.”
Now, 400 years later, we have part of the answer, and Emergence will be celebrating such intricacies and exploring the laws of nature that sculpted the universe.
Professor Brian Cox will touch on everything from the cosmic web all the way down to the structure of the human brain, including black holes and snowflakes, to ‘observe a world of dazzling complexity underpinned by magnificent simplicity’.
Professor Brian Cox said: “I’ve loved creating Emergence – it’s the most ambitious live show I’ve ever written.
“I’ve been very lucky to collaborate with a wonderful group of scientists, musicians, filmmakers and graphic artists to bring cosmology, biology, philosophy and history to the largest and most advanced LED screens available, with the best sound and lights I could find.
“I hope the show is an all-encompassing experience, and I hope it leaves everyone, whether they love science or music or history, or simply contemplating the beauty of Nature, with something new to think about.”
Professor Brian Cox will bring Emergence to the First Direct Bank Arena on 10 October 2026 – tickets will go on sale on 3 October at 10am
Professor Brian Cox Emergence – UK and Ireland 2026 tour dates
- 7 and 8 October – Edinburgh Playhouse
- 9 October – Manchester Co-op Live
- 10 October – Leeds First Direct Arena
- 11 October – Derby Vaillant Live
- 15 October – Sheffield Utilita Arena Sheffield
- 16 October – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
- 17 October – Newcastle Utilita Arena Newcastle
- 18 October – Glasgow OVO Hydro
- 21 and 22 October – Brighton Centre
- 23 October – London The O2
- 24 October – Plymouth Plymouth Pavilions
- 29 October – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
- 30 October – Birmingham Utilita Arena Birmingham
- 31 October – Hull Connexin Live
- 4 November – Cheltenham The Centaur
- 5 and 6 November – CardiffUtilita Arena Cardiff
- 7 and 8 November – Bournemouth BIC
- 11 November – Swansea Swansea Arena
- 13 November – Belfast SSE Arena Belfast
- 14 November – Dublin 3Arena
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