Manchester, see you at Castlefield Bowl tonight. Sadly, both @regrettesband & @wetlegband are unable to join us.@yardactband will be the special guest instead x

5:30pm // Doors
7:30pm // Yard Act
8:45pm // FOALS#LifeIsYours Photo credit: Louise Mason pic.twitter.com/9ff3fHBJck

— FOALS (@foals) June 29, 2022

After a short stint of fans being left in the dark regarding the health and wellbeing of Wet Leg, they quickly took to social media explaining, “Very sad to say we aren’t gonna be able to play the foals show in Manchester tonight cause one of our lovely band has Covid. Have a fun night and see you soon”.

Very sad to say we aren’t gonna be able to play the @foals show in Manchester tonight cause one of our lovely band has Covid. Have a fun night and see you soon

— Wet Leg (@wetlegband) June 29, 2022

The Regrettes then took the same approach and announced to their socials, “awh man sad day. we will not be able to play with foals tonight in manchester due to a few of us testing positive for covid. THIS SUCKS”. An awfully inconvenient coincidence for Foals, but with Yard Act only being a phone call away, many fans seem more than pleased with the decision.

awh man sad day. we will not be able to play with @foals tonight in manchester due to a few of us testing positive for covid. THIS SUCKS

— The Regrettes (@regrettesband) June 29, 2022

Foals are currently in the process of closing up their postponed tour, while tonight’s Manchester date is already sold out, the final show in Leeds’ Millennium Square on July 8^th may still have a few straggling tickets remaining. You can try and bag what you can here. Outside of the tour dates, the group are also hitting up a couple of festivals before calling it quits at the end of August. Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival and Suffolk’s Latitude managed to fit the bill this time around.

Foals’ headline appearance alongside Lewis Capaldi and Snow Patrol at the Obelisk Arena will also see the likes of American breakthrough singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, mercury prize nominee Little Simz, and Rina Sawayama whose recent collaboration with Charli XCX took fans by storm. The main stage will also see the likes of a few more… let’s say old-school bands, with Manic Street Preachers, Modest Mouse, and Shed Seven all making appearances. It’d be unreasonable to put Lewis Capaldi on a line-up and not include James Arthur, just as any festival of this calibre needs a hit-filled set of bangers from someone like Example. You can look into ticket information here.

Luckily, they haven’t come out with this news empty-handed. A new music video for their single “That’s What Makes Me Love You“ has been released, directed by Claire Marie Vogel and Olivia Eberstadt. Regrettes songwriter Lydia Night says of its inspiration that “I was in a dark anxious place and realized that I was becoming very critical of my partner. I got out of that place by realizing, ‘I love this person for exactly who they are and nothing needs to change about who they are.“

The whole album is set to be a confessional and honest response to the events of the last few years. According to their press release, it will explore “subjects such as anxiety and mental health, feeling lost in one’s own environment, and coming to terms with one’s sexuality“, with “hope, embracing and standing up for your inner child” being touched upon as well.

Knight said of its title “that phrase, ‘further joy,’ summarized what it meant to be on the hamster wheel of constantly chasing happiness, but in turn, that’s what makes you unhappy. I was stuck in a loop of wanting to be better, wanting to be good, and therefore I couldn’t be here. I couldn’t be present.“

Aside from this, they’re also going to be embarking on a tour around the US from March until May, and they’ll be seen at some American festivals including Coachella and Bonnaroo. However, if travelling all the way across the pond is a bit much for you, don’t despair. They’ll get to us at some point. They have planned appearances at the notorious 2000trees festival in July (you can read some recent news about this here) as well as a slot in Glasgow’s TRNSMT festival (also in July). If you want to get tickets for either of these, you can look here and here.

The tracklist for their new album can be seen below.

The Regrettes- Further Joy Track Listing

1). Anxieties (Out of Time)
2). Monday
3). That’s What Makes Me Love You
4). Barely on My Mind
5). Subtleties (Never Giving Up On You)
6). La Di Da
7). Homesick
8). Better Now
9). Rosy
10). You’re So Fucking Pretty
11). Step 9
12). Nowhere
13). Show Me You Want Me