Arlo Parks Tickets

From lost soul to savant storyteller, Arlo Parks' confessional pop has become a conduit for outsiders, helping everyone to feel a little less lonesome. 

As a teenager struggling with her identity – being a child of mixed Nigerian, Chadian and French heritage – Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho turned to the rich world of storytelling for solace, finding inspiration in poetry by Allen Ginsberg and Nayyirah Waheed, novels by Haruki Murakami and Sylvia Plath, and music ranging from artists like Otis Redding to Loyle Carner and from King Krule to David Bowie. Figuring out she was bisexual at the age of 17 encouraged Parks to write an album’s worth of material, which covered the entire gamut of her mental health to drug abuse to rejection from unrequited loves. It was a burst of creativity that birthed her pseudonym Arlo Parks and bloomed her debut single ‘Cola’ in 2018. 

Spurred on by her debut EP, Super Sad Generation, Parks made her name as one of watch at The Great Escape and Glastonbury throughout 2019, before being longlisted as a breakthrough act in the 2020 BBC Sound Of music poll and dubbed “a voice of our generation” by BBC Radio 1 DJ Jack Saunders. 

2021 marked a major career milestone for Parks, with the release of her debut full-length album Collapsed In Sunbeams. Led by singles like ‘Green Eyes’ – which featured fellow Queer pop idol Clairo – ‘Caroline’, ‘Eugene’ and ‘Black Dog’, Park’s diaristic songwriting and sumptuously jazzy, dreamlike pop won plaudits from critics and fans alike, resulting in a Mercury Prize Award win alongside the BRIT Award for Best New Artist and a handful of Grammy Award nominations to boot. 

Two years later, having toured the world over and supported pop behemoths like Billie Eilish and Harry Styles, Parks returned with My Soft Machine. The album was more cinematic in scope , yet her songwriting remained as intimate and emotionally incisive as the poems she’d written as a despondent teen. ‘Pegasus’ saw Parks collaborate with Phoebe Bridgers, returning the favour for performing on Bridgers' track 'Graceland' which they debuted live the previous year on stage at Coachella in what became one of that edition’s most joyous moments. 

Arlo Parks returned in 2026 with her third album, Ambiguous Desire. Aged just 25, residing in Los Angeles and armed with an enviable amount of wisdom, Parks threw herself into club culture and the connective experiences that she missed out on whilst touring the world throughout her formative years as an artist. Characterised by her newfound love of house, techno and UK garage, Ambiguous Desire simmers beneath Parks’ weightless vocals in an ode to the night-time – and living life on her own terms. 

In support of her third album, Arlo Parks announced the DESIRE TOUR in 2026.