ANOTR is the Amsterdam house duo of Jesse van der Heijden and Oguzhan Guney, who spent the back half of the 2010s building No Art, their own label, into one of Dutch house music's more reliable exports before turning that reputation into arena-scale bookings. On 17 September 2026 and 18 September 2026 they played a sold-out two-night run at Alexandra Palace, their first headline shows at Ally Pally and, by their promoter's framing, the biggest UK dates of their career. The 18th sold out first; the 17th was added afterwards to cover the overflow.
What makes the double header worth a second look is the record behind it. Withness, ANOTR's third album, came out in June 2026 on No Art, built around '80s-inflected grooves, looped vocals and wah-wah guitar hooks. Lead single "Talk To You" (featuring 54 Ultra) became one of the most streamed dance records of the year, past 50 million plays before the album even landed.
A Genuine Arrival, Even If the Album Played It Safe
DJ Mag's review of Withness, written by Paul Clarke, is instructive: it credits the duo with "funky feelgood tunes" and calls the record "more of what people want," but names the limitation directly too, writing that ANOTR are "sticking firmly in their comfort zone" rather than pushing anywhere new. That's a fair read of a group whose commercial rise has outpaced its appetite for risk in the studio.
In Mood's data, the run reads 0.78 on commerciality - well clear of the 0.48 average across the roughly 400 house-tagged London bookings Mood has tracked over the past two months. Not a surprising number for a 10,250-capacity room behind a 2026-topping single, but it puts a figure on exactly how far the arrival sits from the club nights that make up most of the city's house calendar.
What the Room Actually Sounded Like
The more interesting reading sits elsewhere. Mood rates the added 17 September date at 0.3 on undergroundness, meaningfully below the 0.43 average for that same comparison set - striking for a duo whose early reputation was built inside Amsterdam's underground circuit, in rooms a fraction of Ally Pally's size, less than a decade ago. The 18 September date, the one that sold out first, reads lower still at 0.1. Every other feature score is identical night to night, which suggests the gap tracks audience and occasion rather than anything the duo changed in the booth.
The vocality reading tells a related story. Despite Withness's press language leaning hard on "layered vocals" as a selling point, Mood scores the live booking at 0.25 on vocality - well under the 0.46 average for the same comparison set. On record, ANOTR sell the vocal hooks; at Ally Pally, across a room built for a DJ set rather than a vocal performance, the mix stayed closer to instrumental groove than song. It's a small gap between how the album is marketed and how the show actually read, and exactly the kind of gap a lineup sheet wouldn't tell you about on its own.
The Verdict
None of this makes the run a disappointment. Two sold-out nights at one of London's largest standing-room venues, behind a genuinely huge single, is a real milestone for a duo that spent its first several years playing rooms nobody outside Amsterdam had heard of. But the DJ Mag critique and Mood's own numbers point the same way: this reads as a victory lap for a group playing to its strengths rather than testing new ones. The room got bigger. The sound, on the night's own data, got safer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Did ANOTR sell out both Alexandra Palace shows?
Yes. The 18 September 2026 date sold out first; the 17 September date was added afterwards as a second show to meet the remaining demand, and both nights were ANOTR's first headline dates at the venue.
What album was ANOTR touring behind at Alexandra Palace?
Their third studio album, Withness, released in June 2026 on their own No Art label. Its lead single, "Talk To You" featuring 54 Ultra, became one of the most-streamed dance tracks of the year.
Is ANOTR's music considered underground or mainstream?
The duo's early career was built inside Amsterdam's underground house scene, but Mood's data on the Alexandra Palace run reads well below the average undergroundness score for comparable London house bookings, reflecting how far their sound has moved toward a bigger, more commercial room.
Where is Alexandra Palace and how big is it?
Alexandra Palace, known locally as Ally Pally, sits in north London and holds 10,250 people standing in its pillar-free Great Hall - one of the largest single-room standing capacities of any music venue in the city.
Has Mood reviewed other ANOTR shows in London?
This is Mood's first dedicated review of an ANOTR show. The duo has no other confirmed London bookings in Mood's data beyond the Alexandra Palace double header at the time of writing.
