Taba Chake is taking Arunachal to Europe, five cities in five nights

There is a particular kind of Indian indie success story that does not run through a label, a film banner or a viral reel. It runs through a guitar, a voice, and years of people quietly finding the songs on their own. Taba Chake is that story, and next week it lands in Europe.

The singer-songwriter from Arunachal Pradesh opens a five-date Europe and UK run on 7 October 2026. It is his second time touring the region, after a debut UK and Europe run in 2025, and the first time he plays Germany.

The dates

Here is the run as listed by promoter Zeppelin Entertainment and the tour's official ticket links. Every show is billed for 7 pm.

• 7 October: Amsterdam, Het Witte Huis
• 8 October: Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
• 9 October: London, EGG London
• 10 October: Manchester, Off The Square
• 11 October: Cologne, Die Wohngemeinschaft

Tickets are linked from the Zeppelin Entertainment tour page and the tour's official link page. The Cologne listing, run by NRW Events, says the show is 16+ and asks for no photography or filming during the set.

Who he is

Taba Chake is from Papum Pare district in Arunachal Pradesh and is Nyishi, and that matters to how his music sounds. He writes in Hindi and English, and in Nyishi too, which means a lot of the people singing along at his shows are singing in a language that almost never reaches a mainstream Indian stage, let alone a European one.

The early catalogue was spare by design. His 2016 EP, Bond With Nature, was just guitar and voice. Then came Bombay Dreams, the 2019 debut album that carried songs like "Walk With Me" and introduced him to a far wider audience across the country's independent circuit. Singles like "Shaayad", "Blush" and "Halfway" kept that audience growing without anyone needing to manufacture a moment.

In 2024 he crossed into film, writing and performing the songs for Shoojit Sircar's I Want To Talk, including "Dil Ghabraye". On 10 September 2025 he released his second album, Khud Ko Miloon, which came six years after Bombay Dreams.

Why Europe, and why now

This tour builds on a first visit. According to the Cologne show listing, his 2025 debut UK and Europe run sold out and took in Amsterdam, London, Manchester, Brighton, Newcastle, Winchester and Glasgow. This time Amsterdam, London and Manchester are back, Birmingham is new, and Cologne gives him his first German date.

The rooms are small and close: Het Witte Huis, The Castle & Falcon, Off The Square and Die Wohngemeinschaft are the kind of venues where a fingerstyle guitarist singing in Hindi, English and Nyishi can actually be heard. The crowds, as he tells it, are a mix of South Asian diaspora and locals who walk in knowing nothing about Arunachal or Nyishi, so the songs have to do the introducing.

Chake has said he never really expected his music to travel this far. He describes routing a tour as part numbers and part gut: look at where the listeners are, then pick a few cities you simply love and take a chance on them. One memory from his last Manchester show has stayed with him, an older couple telling him they had been following his music for years.

Getting here has not always been smooth. A planned North American leg last year was pushed back because of visa delays, a reminder of how much admin sits behind every independent artist's passport stamp.

Expect a set drawn from both albums, plus songs from I Want To Talk. Chake has picked out "Aao Chalein" as the bright, outdoorsy one, and "Khud Ko Miloon" as his newer favourite: a sadder song, but the one that means the most to him right now.

The Cosign

We are putting Taba Chake under The Cosign because his route is the one more Indian independent artists should be able to take. No major label push, no reality show. He built a catalogue that sounds like where he is from, sang it in the languages he actually speaks, and let the audience find him.

That audience now stretches from Arunachal to Amsterdam. An India tour is expected to follow the European run, though no dates have been officially announced yet. We will share them when they are. If you are in any of the five cities next week, go. Bring a friend who has never heard him.