Colour Revolt back after nearly a decade in their hometown, playing “A New Family” live at Duling Hall in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 22, 2026.
Originally posted as a feature in The Catalog
Colour Revolt Is Back on Tour
This weekend, I watched Colour Revolt play their first hometown show in over a decade, back home in Jackson, Mississippi at Duling Hall. The bluesy southern alternative rock band has been dormant for more than a decade, and they sounded better than ever.
I wasn’t missing this show. Colour Revolt, back on stage in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi.
Colour Revolt was part of some of my first tours across the Southeast, back when Manchester Orchestra shared stages and van rides and the exhaustion of figuring out how to function as a touring band. They were an enormous influence on me, not in an abstract sense of old songs I like, but I honed my craft shoulder to shoulder, night after night, on our first few southeastern tours. Their latest lineup, after all these years, sounded as good as ever.
Beyond a stellar performance, I was impressed by all the people who traveled in to see the show. I saw old friends from Dallas, and got to hang out with former bandmates that also made the trip from Atlanta. I saw familiar faces from NYC and Nashville, and there was a guy standing behind me in the merch line that had flown in from Philadelphia.
I could have waited for their next Atlanta show. I figured they’d be on tour again soon, but I wanted to see them back in their hometown first, in Mississippi, before touring smooths out the resurgent energy with something more polished.
The last time I drove hours to see a reuniting band was in 2011, when Dismemberment Plan reunited for a run of shows at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC after seven years apart. I drove from Atlanta to see them, because Emergency & I and Change are two of my favorite records, and because I understood then that a hometown reunion is special.
There’s something about a band coming back after years of silence. It’s not exactly nostalgia. Seeing a favorite band reunite after all that time functions less like a concert and more like a checkpoint, an involuntary one, where you measure the distance between who you were the last time you heard those songs live and who you are now (same kind of room, different atmosphere), surrounded by a couple hundred people singing along.
I filmed them playing “A New Family,” one of my favorite songs. If you’re within driving distance the next time they play near you, go check it out.
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