The Fixx kick off a four-night Texas run at House of Blues Houston on Thursday, July 23 — first stop in a corridor that moves through San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas before the week ends. Four cities in four nights reflects a band that knows how to work a region, and booking House of Blues at this stage is a signal: not a nostalgia circuit, not a one-off. Something more deliberate than that.
The 1,800-capacity room is the right fit for The Fixx in 2026. Not so small the show becomes a trivia night, not large enough to require the pretense of an arena run. A working venue for a band that has never stopped working.
The Fixx formed in London in 1979 — originally as The Portraits — and broke through in America during the peak years of British new wave’s MTV run. What made them distinct: Cy Curnin’s tightly coiled vocals layered over Rupert Greenall’s synthesizers, Jamie West-Oram’s guitar cutting through the mid-range, and a rhythm section built for songs that moved between tense and propulsive without losing focus. One of the stranger success stories of the era — substantial commercial recognition in the U.S. and Canada, largely unknown in England.
Reach the Beach (1983) reached No. 8 on the Billboard charts and went multi-platinum, driven by “One Thing Leads to Another” — which climbed to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts in Canada — alongside “Saved by Zero” and “Stand or Fall.” If you know any Fixx song, it’s probably “One Thing Leads to Another,” even if you couldn’t have named it until the keyboards started. Phantoms (1984) extended the catalog with “Are We Ourselves?” The band has continued recording consistently since, most recently releasing Every Five Seconds (2023) and the vinyl single “Winter’s Time b/w Someone Like You.”
The classic lineup is intact for this run — Curnin, Greenall, West-Oram, Adam Woods on drums, and Dan K. Brown on bass, who rejoined the group in 2008 — with more than 20 dates spanning July 11 through August 8. The Smithereens appear as special guests on select stops across the tour. No support act has been announced for the Houston date.
About the Venue
House of Blues Houston is at 1204 Caroline St, Houston, TX 77002 — a 1,800-capacity room and one of the city’s primary mid-tier stops for touring rock acts. More info at houston.houseofblues.com. See also: upcoming Houston concerts.
Tickets
Thursday, July 23, 2026. Show time: 7:00 PM. Tickets available through Ticketmaster.