KALEO Tashkent: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Tashkent)

A blues-rock band from a small Icelandic town

KALEO started in Mosfellsbær, a small town just outside Reykjavík. Frontman JJ Julius Son’s voice moves between a gravelly blues growl and a high falsetto, and the band’s records take in blues, folk and stadium-sized rock.

They became known outside Iceland with the 2016 album A/B. Its slow-building single “Way Down We Go” ended up on film trailers and TV soundtracks across the world. Songs from that era usually make the setlist:

• “Way Down We Go”
• “No Good”
• “All the Pretty Girls”
• “Hot Blood”

Surface Sounds (2021) came next and kept the same swampy, guitar-heavy sound.

Humo Arena on November 27, 2026

The band plays Humo Arena in Tashkent on November 27, 2026. Humo Arena is the city’s largest indoor venue, an ice hockey arena that opened in 2019 with tiered seating rising on all sides of the rink floor. For concerts the floor usually turns into a standing or seated area in front of the stage.

The arena also hosts international hockey and big touring shows. Its layout is like any modern European arena:

• numbered sectors
• concourses ringing the bowl
• several entrances spread around the building

The section and entrance printed on each ticket decide where its holder goes in.

Getting to and around the arena on a show night

Late November evenings in Tashkent are cold, often near freezing once the sun goes down. Concertgoers usually wear proper coats rather than counting on a short walk from the car. Most arenas allow coats inside but have strict rules on bags, so a small bag gets you through the entrance faster.

Yandex Go is the ride-hailing app most people in Tashkent use. Fares show in Uzbek som up front, and you can pay in cash or by card. After the encore, hundreds of people open the app at once. Many attendees walk a few streets away from the main doors and request a car from there, which gets them picked up faster.

The Tashkent Metro is clean and cheap and stops running around midnight. Visitors staying in the centre usually pick hotels around Amir Temur Square, where a short taxi ride covers most of the city.

Paying, entering and fitting in at a Tashkent concert

Tashkent’s arena crowds are young and bilingual. Uzbek and Russian are the languages around you, but KALEO’s English choruses are what everyone sings along to. Phones go up for “Way Down We Go.” Otherwise people tend to watch the show rather than film all of it.

Some practical habits:

• Payment: local cards run on the Uzcard and Humo networks. International Visa and Mastercard work in a growing number of places, but carrying some som in cash covers kiosks and drivers.
• ID: foreign visitors usually carry their passport, since hotels and some venues ask for it.
• Tickets: most entry systems scan tickets from your phone, and people keep screen brightness up so the queue keeps moving.
• Language: “rahmat” (Uzbek) or “spasibo” (Russian) for thanks goes down well with staff and drivers.

The promoter sets the ticket categories and venue rules. A printed or digital ticket with your sector and entrance on it tells you where to go when you arrive.