The tour will feature five UK dates and five European dates, with the UK leg starting at St Luke’s in Glasgow on September 14th and concluding at Chalk in Brighton on the 18th, while the European leg kicks off at La Maroquinerie in Paris on September 21st and rounds off at Hole 44 in Berlin on the 25th.

The entirety of their well-received fifth album Wild Light will be performed in full during the tour, and will be followed by, as mentioned in a press release, a ‘second set of other bits and pieces‘, which may leave fans of the experimental outfit hopeful of new material.

The press release has also stated that the group, best known for combining noise rock, experimental rock and electronic rock throughout their years of existence, has also announced a new project, the so-called Wild Light Decade, that will, in the months leading up to their string of live shows, see the outfit release ‘never heard before‘ recordings that were made during a period between 2010 and 2013 and what is now known as the Wild Light Sessions.

The releasing of these previously unheard recordings will be available on the band’s patreon page on a subscription basis for five pounds a month. The patreon page can be found here.

65daysofstatic were formed in Sheffield in 2001 by instrumentalists Paul Wolinski, Joe Shrewsbury, Rob Jones and Simon Wright, and released their first album, The Fall of Math, in 2004 to widespread favourable reviews. The band’s sound with their debut LP focused on math and noise rock, and this fitting of the post-rock genre continued with two of their subsequent releases, One Time for All Time (2005) and The Destruction of Small Ideas (2007).

Watch the music video for ‘Retreat! Retreat!‘, from 65daysofstatic’s first album, The Fall of Math, below:

With the release of their fourth album, however, in 2010, the band shifted, musically, to a more electronic sound. We Were Exploding Anyway featured more dance elements, including more dance beats and electronic bass and drum tracks. Their fifth and sixth albums (Wild Light, 2013, and replicr, 2019) feature a combination of their earlier post-rock and noise rock sound with the electronica sound inspired in their fourth release.

Listen to ‘Unmake the Wild Light’ below:

The tour dates in full can be found below:

14/09/2023 – St Luke’s – Glasgow
15/09 – New Century Hall – Manchester
16/09 – Electric Brixton – London
17/09 – Trinity – Bristol
18/09 – Chalk – Brighton
21/09 – La Maroquinerie – Paris
22/09 – Trix – Antwerp
23/09 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
24/09 – Knust – Hamburg
25/09 – Hole 44 – Berlin

You can purchase tickets for the live shows here.

Wild Light received critical acclaim, scoring 82 on Metacritic, with NME stating “next time someone tells you guitar music has run out of new ideas, simply point them in the direction of Wild Light”.

The band hail from Sheffield, and formed in 2001. Since then they have released nine studio albums, and in 2017 they created the accompanying soundtrack for the game No Man’s Sky.

In 2021, the band began an innovative project entitled Wreckage Systems which is a live-streamed broadcast that employs software written by the band to generate endless new material. The project uses samples of music made by the band during lockdown, but turns them into live audio, ensuring that all new generated audio is unique. The band have stated on their website that Wreckage Systems is “fast, rough, and responsive to the world in which it’s getting made”. The project was on hiatus but appears to be back up and running, and you can stream it 24/7 here.

Aside from this ongoing (infinite) project, the band plan to continue releasing ‘regular’ records. Band member Paul Wolinski (known as Polinski on solo projects) also has an upcoming album, Telex From MIDI City, coming out on the 24^th February. The lead single, ‘Distant Friend, I Love You!’ is available to stream now on all platforms, plus an accompanying music video.

Tickets for the upcoming tour are available here!

UK Tour Dates:

 14/09/23 – St. Luke’s – Glasgow

15/09 – New Century Hall – Manchester

16/09 – Electric Brixton – London

17/09 – Trinity – Bristol

18/09 – CHALK – Brighton