Good Charlotte have been announced as the headliner for 2026’s Slam Dunk Festival.
The shows in Hatfield and Leeds are billed as a European exclusive for GC.
Good Charlotte last played Slam Dunk in 2018, and the 2026 shows will be Good Charlotte’s first UK performance since February 2019.
Tickets are on sale from Saturday 27 September.
Good Charlotte released Motel du Cap on 8 August – so what do the critics think? Here’s a round-up of reviews and some interviews and US TV live performances.
Kerrang
4/5
“Good Charlotte’s refusal to rest on their laurels while letting their present-day brotherhood dominate proceedings makes for a commendable mix, reminding the world why there’s still plenty left in their tank.”
Punktastic
“You won’t like everything on this album, loosely based on their time on holiday at the eponymous resort in the South of France, but you’ll definitely like at least something on their first collection of songs in eight years.”
Wall of Sound Australia
8/10
“Motel Du Cap is a heartwarming listen as a long-time Good Charlotte fan. A heightened sense of togetherness finds itself tracing through this release, embedding the body of work with a conviction and authenticity unseen to this degree within the past years of this band.”
Euphoria
4/5
“Motel du Cap proves that Good Charlotte can offer much more than just nostalgia to the fans who’ve grown up with their idols.”
Chorus.fm
“Motel Du Cap may not be perfect, but anytime we can get new music from Good Charlotte, it’s a nice treat, since the band consistently speaks from the heart and from an authentic place.”
When The Horn Blows
“What elevates Motel Du Cap beyond just nostalgia-bait, however, is its heart. For a band once defined by their youthful rebellion, Good Charlotte has found something more powerful in vulnerability. Their maturity isn’t dressed up or manufactured; it’s bruised, imperfect, and honest.”
Daily Mail
4/5
“There’s a sense that Motel du Cap is a bid to cement Good Charlotte’s legacy.”
And a more negative one from The Soundboard Review
“If you were expecting a new fire to be lit under Good Charlotte (like it seems they themselves were), you might have another seven-year wait in store.”
Alongside the reviews, Good Charlotte have given a number of interviews around the release of Motel du Cap – here’s a few of them:
LA Times: How a lavish celebrity wedding brought Good Charlotte back together
Paper Magazine: Good Charlotte Check Into ‘Motel du Cap’
Kerrang: Good Charlotte: “We’re hungrier than ever… This story is still unfinished”
Consequence: Good Charlotte Reflect on the Life Changes That Inspired Their Stay at Motel Du Cap
Rolling Stone: Good Charlotte Is Entering a New Phase: ‘We Don’t Give a F-ck in a Great Way’ (This one’s from June)
And they’ve done a few performances over on US TV too including on Jimmy Fallon and Good Morning America
Good Charlotte have confirmed details of their new single Rejects – and the premiere of its music video.
Rejects will premiere on YouTube on Wednesday 25 June at 6pm UK time (10am PST).
The band have been teasing snippets of the song on social media in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, Good Charlotte confirmed album Motel du Cap would be released on 8 August.
Good Charlotte have confirmed details of their next album.
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The announcement came as Good Charlotte announced they and their label MDDN had signed a deal with music publishing publishing company BMG for the release of the album.
No name or release date has been given for the follow up to 2016’s Youth Authority.
The band have been teasing something on social media in recent weeks which started off with images of themselves with skulls overlaid on their faces, before using the same graphics on pictures of artists such as Coolio, Celine Dion and Kenny G.
The images have featured the phrase “Actual Pain” and a teaser posted earlier this week had the date of 25 May, this Friday on.
Good Charlotte headline Slam Dunk Festival in Leeds, Hatfield and Birmingham this weekend.
Good Charlotte have announced that they will return to the UK in 2017 with dates in November and December.
The Good Charlotte UK dates are:
Nov 27: Southampton Guildhall
Nov 28: Nottingham Rock City
Nov 30: Glasgow Barrowlands
Dec 1: Birmingham o2 Academy
Dec 2: Manchester Academy
Dec 3: London Brixton Academy
Tickets go on sale on 16 June at 9am.
GC are currently on a European tour but are not playing any individual UK dates, instead playing Download Festival.
Good Charlotte’s UK tour is, sadly, now over but all the fans can agree that they put on a fantastic run of shows and it was like they’d never been away. (And I was luckily enough to bump into Billy and Paul before the show).
But what did the reviewers think? Here’s a round-up:
The Scotsman is pretty harsh and says they’re more akin to Busted than Green Day (not something I’d agree with, but anyway) but does add that the Madden brothers’ ‘hearts seem to be in the right place’
‘Live, however, they were impossible to dislike’, says the Telegraph (even if they were slightly scathing about the music…)
‘Still on Good form after all these years’, says the Sunday Mail
Punktastic say ‘it’s always great when you can just tell that a band are having just as much fun up there as the crowd are’.
(Plus, bonus photo gallery)
Kerrang say ‘they have a renewed lease of life’ and gives them 4 stars/Ks.
Original Rock say ‘they definitely have not lost their touch live’.
Mosh say ‘they still manage to have everything perfect to a T’ (even if they forget to mention Paul and Dean)
‘Good Charlotte manage to maintain the energy and the noise levels throughout an excellently planned-out set’ says Dead Press.
And the bloggers?
‘LOUD’, says Mel’s Jukebox while ‘this show was epic’, is Tumblr blogger’s soundsdandnoises conclusion. ‘Charisma, talent and down-to-earth attitudes; the band had it all’ adds West Midlands-based Native Monster.
Six years since their last album release, Good Charlotte’s Youth Authority is now out!
It’s available on iTunes and Apple Music now (with bonus track Rise), is set to be on Spotify from next week and is also available from HMV on CD and vinyl with two bonus tracks – We’ll Let It All Out and Life Is Hard.
Hopefully they’ll play some of the new tracks live for us on their UK tour next month.
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Good Charlotte have confirmed a run of UK tour dates this August around their Reading and Leeds shows.
GC will be playing Glasgow’s O2 Academy on August 24, Manchester’s O2 Ritz on August 25 and Birmingham’s O2 Institute 1 on August 27.
Tickets will be on sale on Friday morning.
Thee dates are around their Reading and Leeds appearances. They’re be headlining The Lock-Up Stage on Friday August 26 at Leeds and Sunday August 28 at Reading.
**Update – a London show has also been added. They’ll play the O2 Forum in Kentish Town on August 22.
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