WELLY have expanded their live plans around the UK by announcing news of their National Service Tour Part 2: The North & London. Answering the call of duty as the next great British band, Welly is currently undertaking the final stages of the 14 date Southern leg of the tour, with 9 additional Northern dates now announced before the band headline London Moth Club on Wednesday 4 December. TICKETS: https://welly.os.fan/
The dates on the National Service Tour head brazenly off the beaten track and into the suburbs, taking in towns often overlooked by touring bands but seemingly strangely appropriate for Welly’s parochial tales of curtain twitching curiosity.
NOVEMBER
Wed 20 LIVERPOOL Arts Club Loft
Thu 21 STOCKPORT Bask
Fri 22 PRESTON The Ferret
Sat 23 MIDDLESBROUGH Play Brew Tap Room
Tue 26 ST ANDREWS Club 601
Wed 27 KILMARNOCK Bakers Nite Club
Thu 28 CARLISLE Brickyard
Fri 29 SHREWSBURY Albert’s Shed
Sat 30 HUDDERSFIELD Parish Dive Bar
DECEMBER
Wed 04 LONDON Moth Club
O2 and artist presale for the new shows opens at 10:00am on Wednesday 25 September; Live Nation presale at 10:00am on Thursday 26 September; and general sale at 10:00am on Friday 27 September.
The latest Welly tour-de-force Cul-De-Sac dropped recently, arriving alongside a video that brought smalltown politics to life, with filming taking place at the legendary Wimbourne Model Town, made famous in the film Hot Fuzz. The National Service tour sees Welly explore that love for the suburbs further and follows a packed summer of festivals which the band firmly on the map.
Welly are one of the UK’s most exciting young bands. Playing with notions of artifice and aspiration, style and self, the group’s titular frontman, songwriter and producer was born in Southampton, initially drawn to the writings of Hanif Kureshi and Alan Bennett. When Welly’s Dad sat him down to watch the video to Common People in 2014, an obsession with music was born. Today Welly crashes together the best bits of escapist pop, indie disco and all things that interest him, showing ambitions to reconnect the great, grassroots British tradition with the mainstream band. First single Shopping pays tribute to the dying UK high street, whilst Soak Up The Culture sends up yet pays equal tribute to the lost art of the lads-on-tour anthem. Lawnmower-themed love triangle Deere John was Welly’s tale from over the garden fence, with recent single Cul-De-Sac adding a claustrophobic new chapter from this remarkable new voice.
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