Julia Alexa is opening the European leg of Christian Gates’s I Believe In Ghosts Tour. The Zurich-based artist joins all eight dates this October, from Amsterdam’s Melkweg to the closing night at The Garage in London, her first international support run.
The right opener, on her own continent
The booking has a poetic shape to it. Julia Alexa built a nine-figure streaming catalog from a bedroom studio in Zurich, the artist famous in headphones and anonymous at home, and she has spent her live career so far learning stagecraft the same way she learned production: by herself, in public, fast. Her first show ever was the Gurtenfestival Campfire Stage in July 2023; within twelve months she had played Moon & Stars and OpenAir St. Gallen. Now the American-built tour comes to her side of the Atlantic, and the hometown-continent artist walks on first.
Famous in headphones, anonymous at home: October changes that.
Musically the pairing needs no explanation. Alexa’s catalog of intimate, self-produced dark pop sits in the same emotional register Gates’s audience lives in, and the two worlds already overlap through the Rebellion Records orbit of PLVTINUM and Chris Grey, the collaborator circle that connects her to the wider scene The Ring covers.
The dates
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 04 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Melkweg OZ |
| Oct 06 | Berlin, Germany | Prachtwerk |
| Oct 07 | Prague, Czechia | Rock Café |
| Oct 09 | Milan, Italy | Slaughter Club |
| Oct 11 | Paris, France | Petit Bain |
| Oct 13 | Glasgow, UK | Classic Grand |
| Oct 14 | Manchester, UK | Deaf Institute |
| Oct 15 | London, UK | The Garage |
Tickets and VIP packages for every date are available now through The Ring VIP.
What this run means for her
Alexa has never toured. Her live resume is a handful of Swiss festival sets, each one bigger than the last, and a self-taught approach she has been open about: she learned to perform from YouTube the way she learned to produce. Eight rooms in twelve days across seven countries is a different kind of education, the small-venue circuit where dark pop’s live culture actually gets built, in front of an audience that already knows every word of the headliner’s catalog and is about to learn hers.
For Gates, the pick continues a pattern The Ring has covered before: bills built from the scene’s own map rather than from an agency’s catalog. The I Believe In Ghosts Tour already runs through the United States before crossing over; October’s European leg now doubles as the continent’s first real look at one of its own quietest stars.