UK it’s been too long, see you this October

Pre-order our new album ‘Smitten’ from the @DirtyHit store before 3pm on Tuesday to get access to pre-sale tickets

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— PALE WAVES (@palewaves) July 1, 2024

Their tour will take place throughout October beginning at The Waterfront in Norwich before playing dates in Liverpool, Nottingham, Brighton, Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham. The tour will conclude at Here at Outernet in London on the 17th of October. During this run of dates the band are also set to headline Manchester’s Neighbourhood festival on the 5th of October, making a return to their home city.

Tickets go on sale at 10am BST on Friday (June 5) and you can buy tickets here. Fans can get access to presale tickets by pre-ordering a copy of ‘Smitten’ here. The pre-sale opened today (June 3) at 10am.

Pale Waves’ 2024 UK headline tour dates are as follows:

The Waterfront, Norwich, Thursday 3 October
O2 Academy, Liverpool, Friday 4 October
Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester, Saturday 5 October
Rock City, Nottingham, Sunday 6 October
Chalk, Brighton, Tuesday 8 October
O2 Academy, Bristol, Wednesday 9 October
Foundry, Sheffield, Thursday 10 October
Fat Sam’s, Dundee, Friday 11 October
SWG3, Glasgow, Sunday 13 October
Boiler Shop, Newcastle, Monday 14 October
O2 Institute, Birmingham, Tuesday 15 October
HERE At Outernet, London, Thursday 17 October

This follows the announcement last month of the Manchester group’s upcoming fourth album ‘Smitten’. Pale Waves previewed the band’s forthcoming album with 80s inspired single ‘Perfume’ which is reminiscent of bands like the Cure and The Cranberries. The lead single taken from ‘Smitten’ details what it is like being totally infatuated by someone. Speaking about the new single lead singer Heather Baron-Gracie described it as “Perfume’ is the perfect introduction into the new world we’ve created. It’s queer, feminine and romantic and it encapsulates the essence of ‘Smitten.’” The release of ‘Perfume’ was accompanied by a music video that shows the band in a hazy, Lovestruck Fairy tale.

“I found myself writing about not just a certain time period, but my whole life, from years ago,” Baron-Gracie says about ‘Smitten’. “When I fall in love, I fall deep, and it’s interesting to me that you can feel so fascinated and smitten with someone and then they can become a total stranger. So I feel like Smitten really summarised perfectly what I felt for others at a certain point.”

The new album was written over a two-year period between the UK and US and sees Baron-Gracie talk a lot about the early stages of queer relationships.

The band are currently on tour in the USA supporting pop rock band PVRIS and are set to return to the UK for a handful of festival performances including Y Not Festival at the start of August.

The band have also announced a string of UK and Ireland shows, and are set to kick off their 14 date tour in Glasgow on the 21^st of September and concluding in Dublin on the 8^th of October. Tickets can be purchased here.

Accompanying the news of the groups debut album, the Manchester quartet have unveiled a new song, ‘Eighteen’. Singles, which will feature on the album are ‘There’s A Honey’, ‘Television Romance’ and ‘Kiss’.

The indie-pop group’s recent single ‘Noises’ addressed issues of body insecurity and mental health with the lyrics “my mind makes noises too much, I feel like I’m slowly losing myself, I’m afraid that I need help” and “Why do I stare so much at my body? I’m falling, I’m crawling on the floor at night. I know it’s not right, but you can’t fix me this time.”

“A lot of people have only heard our pop songs, so I can’t wait to give them the other side of Pale Waves, which is super dark and vulnerable. We’re growing so fast, I just want to keep that energy. I want to see us grow a lot more. I want more faces at the shows, I just want more of everything,” says Heather Baron-Gracie.

In February 2018, the band released their acclaimed debut EP, ‘All The Things I Never Said’, following a series of songs which branded them as one of the most promising new bands in the country.

When asked by NME, if the album would be similar to their previous material, Barron-Gracie, said: “You know, they’re pretty similar but the album is more of like a ‘Pale Waves world’. So, will have those sort of sad songs, but you will also have those banging singles.”

Originating from Manchester, the band formed in 2014, and was originally known as ‘Creek’, when lead singer and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie met drummer Ciara Doran at university. Completing the quartet is, guitarist Hugo Silvani and bassist Charlie Wood.

After the success of their debut single ‘There’s A Honey’, followed by ‘Television Romance’, the band were ranked fifth in the BBC Sound of 2018 poll and won the NME Under the Radar Award at the NME Awards.

21/08/2018 – SWG3 – Glasgow

22/08 – Boiler Shop – Newcastle

23/08 – Foundry -Sheffield

24/08 – O2 Academy – Liverpool

25/08 – O2 Academy – Birmingham

27/08 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – London

28/08 – O2 Ritz – Manchester

01/09/2018 – Rock City – Nottingham

02/09 – Guildhall – Southampton

03/09 – O2 Academy – Bristol

05/09 – Elmwood Hall – Belfast

06/09 – Cyprus Avenue – Corke

07/09 – Dolan’s Warehouse – Limerick

08/09 – Academy – Dublin