This is some of the very best the North has to offer, all on one bill. Dreamy.
British indie legend The Wombats are back with a new album and a limited UK tour – plus, they’re bringing two very good Northern bands along with them as the support acts.
Announcing their sixth studio album on Friday, 11 October, The Wombats are set to return with new music after two years since their first UK number one and will be hitting the road for a select few dates including London, Manchester and Leeds , but this tour looks to be all about the North.
We’re not ready for how good the lineup is going to be and neither are you.
As you can see, the all-North affair will see the veterans of the genre flanked by Manchester’s very own alternative four-piece, Everything Everything , who we’ve now seen so many times that we’re genuinely starting to lose count.
They’ve not dipped in all those years either – not even a little bit.
But to make things even better, the support roster is completed by none other than fellow Scousers and much-loved indie icons: the ever-rising Red Rum Club, who will be making their AO Arena debut after smashing their hometown arena earlier this year.
Joinng our pal’s @thewombats for their arena tour next March 🐻 tickets on general sale next Friday. pic.twitter.com/FnemXVoKCH
— Red Rum Club (@RedRumClub) October 11, 2024
You can’t really call them warm-up acts when they’re all this good, can you?
Set to play in Manchester on Saturday, 22 March, 2025 before wrapping up the small handful of gigs at the First Direct in Leeds on Wednesday 26 March a few days later, these are what we’d consider must-not-miss shows.
Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am on Saturday, 19 October but you can access pre-sale by pre-ordering their latest record.
Speaking of the new album, Oh! The Ocean is the band’s sixth studio LP to date and is set to release on 21 February March, with the lead single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’ having just dropped.
Discussing a family trip that inspired the new album, frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy says: “I’ve been to many beaches and seas and coasts over the years but, for some reason, it felt like the first time I had ever seen it and was truly present.
“There was this revelation that I had been living a life caught up in my own head […] It was really a potent experience. […] The album offers up some internal questions like: why are my head and body disconnected all the time? Why am I incapable at times of seeing any form of beauty in the world or in others? Why do I expect the world to conform to my will? Why do I never stop and smell the flowers?”
The single itself is a great taster of what’s to come and we can’t wait to hear the rest – nor can we wait to see The Wombats and two other Northern favourites all in one night.
You can check out our chat with Everything Everything HERE or the Red Rum Club boys down below.
Read more: McFly and Busted announce massive joint head-to-head tour – with Leeds arena gig
Featured image – Press images (Supplied)
