Cage the Elephant are heading to Munich, Germany, on Nov. 15 to headline the halftime show at the 2026 NFL Munich Game, where the New England Patriots take on the Detroit Lions.
“We have played a lot of shows in Germany over the years and the crowds here have always given us everything they have,” Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz says in a statement. “Playing a halftime show is a completely different animal — you get one shot in front of a stadium and a global audience, and you have to make every second count. We are going to bring the same energy we bring to our own shows and we cannot wait.”
Cage the Elephant’s halftime show in Berlin is part of a series of halftime performances by major acts at NFL games in overseas markets. The Jonas Brothers are playing at the NFL Melbourne Game in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 10, and Pedro Sampaio and Ricky Martin will be performing at the NFL Rio Game on Sept. 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Munich has given us some of the most memorable atmospheres of any international game we have staged, and we wanted a halftime act that could meet a crowd like that head on,” Tim Tubito, senior director of global game presentation, music and entertainment at the NFL, says in a statement. “Cage the Elephant are one of the great live rock bands working today. Germany has a deep rock tradition and a football crowd that sings from start to finish, and we look forward to collaborating with the band on a performance that captures the energy that matches the moment.”
It’s been a relatively quiet year for Cage the Elephant where their live activity has been limited to a handful of U.S. festival appearances (last year, they spent the summer opening the U.S. dates of Oasis’s reunion tour). But they dropped their new single “Beaches in Tennessee” in July, and are working on the follow-up to their 2024 LP Neon Pill. They return to the road in February for a run of shows all across Europe.
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