The Jacksons 2026 Setlist: What Songs to Expect

The Jacksons' November 2026 UK tour has not yet taken place, so no venue has published a running order for any of the four dates. A clear pattern does come through the recent shows, though: across five dated shows in California, the Netherlands, Connecticut and Switzerland through 2025 and into 2026, the touring line-up of Jackie and Marlon Jackson has played a broadly consistent set built around the Jackson 5 catalogue. This page sets that pattern out as an expectation, not a confirmed UK setlist, and separates The Jacksons' own live show from the Michael Jackson biopic, stage musical and tribute acts also in UK circulation this year. For the full run of UK tour dates and the line-up performing them, see the companion piece on this site. Hospitality across all four UK dates sits on the Jacksons UK tour 2026 hub.

What songs will The Jacksons play on their 2026 UK tour?

Based on setlists played across the group's 2025 and 2026 shows in the US and Europe, expect a set built on Jackson 5 and Jacksons hits: Can You Feel It, Blame It on the Boogie, Rock With You, Enjoy Yourself, Show You the Way to Go and Lovely One, moving into a run of Motown-era classics. No UK date has happened yet, so this is a pattern drawn from recent shows, never a published UK setlist.

The same shows also feature 2300 Jackson Street, played from a recording rather than performed live by the band, before the set reaches its core block of Motown-era songs:

• I Want You Back
• ABC
• The Love You Save
• Dancing Machine
• Never Can Say Goodbye
• I'll Be There

A tribute video honouring Tito, Joseph and Michael Jackson has also featured at every show in that run, followed by Can't Let Her Get Away, This Place Hotel and a closing run through Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground), which has closed the main set at each of those recent dates.

Two extra performers, Mitchell Zhangazha and Haydon Eshun, join the UK dates alongside Jackie and Marlon Jackson. Neither has appeared at the recent shows behind this expectation, so the UK dates could plausibly differ from what has been played elsewhere so far.

The tour itself is billed as Jackson 5 Live In Concert on all four UK dates, distinct from the touring act's own name, The Jacksons, and that billing lines up with the catalogue above, which spans the group's Motown years and its later Epic-era hits: the Jackson 5 and Jacksons eras of the same act.

Will they play I Want You Back and ABC?

Yes: I Want You Back and ABC have both featured at all five of the 2025-2026 shows on record, usually run together with The Love You Save and Dancing Machine as one medley. I Want You Back, ABC and The Love You Save were three of the four singles the Jackson 5 took to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970, alongside I'll Be There: the first act in the chart's history to send its first four singles all the way to the top spot. Dancing Machine, a later hit, and Never Can Say Goodbye sit in the same run of the show. Nothing in those recent shows suggests these songs would be dropped for the UK dates, though the running order itself remains unconfirmed for any of the four shows.

How long is the show?

There is no confirmed running time for any of the four UK dates. The Jacksons have not published a set length for the tour, and none of the recent 2025-2026 shows carries an official stated running time, so any duration given now would be an estimate rather than a confirmed figure. A running time will only be clear once the tour opens. Any support-act time would sit outside the headline set.

Is there an encore?

No encore is confirmed for any of the four UK dates. In the recent 2025-2026 shows, the main set has closed on Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground), and whether the UK nights add anything after that cannot be settled in advance. Treat the closing stretch of the show as unconfirmed until the tour opens in Manchester and a running order is published.

Is Michael Jackson featured in the concert?

Michael Jackson does not perform live in the show: he died in 2009, and the concert's own tribute video is archive footage, not a live appearance. Jackie and Marlon Jackson front the touring show, joined by Mitchell Zhangazha and Haydon Eshun, two performers who each bring their own Michael Jackson-related stage credit from London's West End. Zhangazha played Michael Jackson in the West End production of MJ The Musical, and Eshun was the long-running lead vocalist in Thriller - Live. Their billing on this tour comes from the promoter's own announcement; how their contribution is structured within the show itself has not been described in detail in any of the available sources.

The tribute video itself honours three family members no longer with the group: Tito Jackson, Joseph Jackson and Michael Jackson. It plays from a recording as a mid-set moment of remembrance in each of the five recent shows, rather than at the top or the close of the show.

Is this connected to the Michael biopic or MJ The Musical?

The Jacksons' 2026 UK tour is a separate production from every other Michael Jackson-related title in UK circulation this year, though two of them share a genuine link through the tour's own performers. Michael, the 2026 biographical film starring Jaafar Jackson (Michael Jackson's real-life nephew) as Michael, has its own cinema release and distributor, and had taken over a billion dollars worldwide at the box office within a few months of release; Jackie and Marlon Jackson are credited as executive producers on that film, so it is a separate production, though that executive-producer credit is a real tie to the tour.

MJ The Musical, the West End and Broadway stage show, is a separate, ongoing production with its own theatre run; Mitchell Zhangazha played Michael Jackson in its West End production before joining The Jacksons' 2026 touring show. Thriller - Live, the long-running West End concert revue, is separate again; Haydon Eshun led its cast for over a decade before also joining the 2026 tour. None of the several Michael Jackson tribute acts currently touring the UK are connected to The Jacksons' tour: unlike those shows, the four UK dates in November feature two of the original Jackson 5 members performing as themselves, including the London show. Anyone weighing up which of the four UK dates suits their trip best can find that comparison covered separately.

Last updated: 15 July 2026. This page will be revised once The Jacksons' UK tour opens in Manchester on 6 November 2026 and a confirmed running order for the tour is available, replacing the pattern above with the actual UK setlist.