Roni Size and Reprazent are putting New Forms back in rooms in 2027, with the official Roni Size site framing it as a limited UK live-performance run around the album's 30-year mark.
That matters because New Forms was never easiest to file as a museum object. The safe shortcut is to call it a 1997 drum-and-bass album and leave it there. The more useful version is stranger: a record built from jungle's velocity, breakbeat pressure, and the idea that drum and bass could stand on a stage without sanding off its club logic.
The current announcement lands in that second lane. DJ Mag surfaced the nine-show June 2027 frame, while The FADER corroborated the full-live-band return and a Bristol Sounds close. The official site keeps the public detail narrower: June 2027, UK live performances and the previously announced 9 October general-sale timing. Until the artist or ticketing pages settle into one clean route, the full itinerary can wait.
What is worth saying now is that the live version is not an accessory to the archive. It is part of how the record has kept moving. In one container, New Forms is a 1997 album. In another, it is a stage argument about how programmed drums, bass weight and live performance can share the same pressure system.
At 30, the return is less about anniversary nostalgia than format. Drum and bass history is often told through labels, pirate radio, dubplates and rooms that no longer exist in the same form. This run puts one of its most visible album-era statements back into the room, where a younger crowd can hear the difference between a record being remembered and a record still asking to be played out loud.
