Falle Nioke sends Guinea soaring: with Pigeon, he takes off for Brussels, Paris and Berlin!

The official poster has landed, and it already says everything: Guinea is no longer merely a guest on the world's stages — it is holding the microphone. Singer and percussionist born in Youkounkoun and based in Margate, on the English coast, Falle Nioke fronts Pigeon — and in the spring of 2027, all of Europe will hear his voice.

Six dates, six landmark stages

The 'Outernational' tour — a nod to the band's debut album, 'OUTTANATIONAL', released on 1 May 2026 on Memphis Industries — will cross six cities in ten days:

• Wednesday 14 April 2027 — Brussels (Belgium): Witloof Bar, at Botanique
• Thursday 15 April 2027 — Amsterdam (Netherlands): Paradiso Nord (Tolhuistuin)
• Friday 16 April 2027 — Rotterdam (Netherlands): Motel Mozaïque festival
• Saturday 17 April 2027 — Paris (France): Hasard Ludique
• Thursday 22 April 2027 — Copenhagen (Denmark): VEGA
• Friday 23 April 2027 — Berlin (Germany): Gretchen

Botanique, Paradiso, VEGA, Gretchen: these are not passing rooms, they are institutions — the stages where European reputations are made. And in the middle of the run, a festival, Motel Mozaïque, to remind everyone that Pigeon is first and foremost a live animal.

Pigeon, the quintet that cannot sit still

Born from an improvised session in Margate, Pigeon brings together Falle Nioke (vocals and percussion), Graham Godfrey (drums), Steve Pringle (keyboards), Tom Dream (guitar) and Josh Ludlow (bass) — musicians whose credits run from Little Simz to Michael Kiwanuka, from SAULT to Saul Williams. Their sound: afrobeat-disco shot through with funk, psychedelic rock and post-punk, spotted as early as the 'Yagana' EP (Soundway Records, 2022), confirmed by 'Backslider' (2023), and carried today by the album 'OUTTANATIONAL' and its track 'Miami'. Gilles Peterson, Elton John and Iggy Pop have already championed the band, and Glastonbury's programmers have opened their stages to it. The name comes from the pigeons Falle Nioke raised as a child in Guinea. The pigeon on the poster is no accident, then: it is a flight home — by way of the stars.

A conquest run like clockwork

What stands out in this trajectory is the method. In October 2026, Pigeon wrapped up five dates opening for Duran Duran, in the UK's biggest arenas — Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds. The day after the final date, Falle Nioke simply gave thanks: "Thank you Jah for the opportunity to support Duran Duran." Gratitude, and respect for the stages and the audiences: a signature as much as a courtesy.

What comes next is already written, date after date. December 2026: the Trans Musicales in Rennes. January 2027: the band's first UK headline tour — Margate, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, London's Village Underground, Nottingham, Norwich — with a stop at Eurosonic in Groningen, Europe's great showcase for rising music. February 2027: America, with Brooklyn (Baby's All Right, on the 9th) and Los Angeles (Zebulon, on the 11th). Then Europe in April. England, the United States, Europe: the map fills in with a watchmaker's precision — the mark of a voice promoters are fighting over on both sides of the Atlantic, looked after by the ROAM Artists agency.

The voice of Youkounkoun

Behind the rise lies a path forged far from the spotlights. Born in 1988 in Youkounkoun, in Coniagui country, in Guinea's Boké region, Falle Nioke trained his voice as a teenager on the banks of the Rio Nunez, before travelling West Africa for years with a troupe of itinerant musicians, from Senegal to The Gambia. Based in the UK since 2018 and living in Margate, he sings in eight languages — Coniagui, Susu, Fulani, Malinké, French, English… — and accompanies his voice on traditional instruments: the gongoma, the bolon, the cassi.

From Margate, he has stacked up the collaborations that matter: Ghost Culture (the 'Youkounkoun' EP, with singles A-listed on BBC 6 Music), Sweden's sir Was ('Marasi'), Congo Natty, Barry Can't Swim, Alabaster de Plume, Joe Goddard… Three EPs on PRAH Recordings — including 'Badiare' (2021) and its track 'Ayekouma' — then a debut solo album, 'Love from the Sea', released in September 2025 on Eat Your Own Ears. A discography that links Guinea's traditions to Europe's clubs, without ever renouncing either.

Festival TV has followed him since 2021

And Festival TV has been telling this story from the start. On 5 October 2021, Moïse 1er was already introducing Falle Nioke as "the new sensation of world music", around that very 'Ayekouma'. Five years on, the sensation has become a reference, and the bet has paid off: spot them early, follow them for the long haul, tell the story of the road. In April 2027, the Guinean pigeon will fly over six European capitals. Festival TV will be there to tell it.