ShareLiverpool’s indie powerhouses Circa Waves are back with their spectacular new album Death & Love Pt.1 now available via Lower Third/PIAS.
Circa Waves will return to the road in February and March next year, embarking on their biggest UK headline tour yet, playing to their ever expanding fan base. Across twelve dates, they’ll play to thousands of fans across the UK, including a night at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on March 26th and what will be a truly special final night hometown show at Liverpool’s Olympia March 1st
Both terrifying and liberating to write, Death & Love Pt.1 is an urgent, nine-track hit of cathartic guitar-pop, serving as a powerful coping mechanism to help process front man Kieran Shudall’s near-death experience.
Back in early 2023, Kieran received a call from doctors to say that the main artery in his heart was severely blocked. Two days later, he was lying on an operating table watching a wire being inserted into his heart to fix it. What followed was the cancelling of a lot of shows, working out a lot of medication, and most crucially, now having to navigate a new way of life.
“I needed this record to process what I went through. A letter to tell myself I would stick around,” Kieran explains. “Most of all, I wanted to make a record for me, with music I love and hopefully music to make kids in their bedroom pick up a guitar and believe they can take on the fucking world.”
And the results are quite simply stunning. Self-produced by Kieran, and engineered by Matt Wiggins (Adele, Lana Del Rey, Glass Animals), the nine tracks that make up Death & Love Pt.1 ooze nostalgia, and hark back to the sounds and themes that made Shudall want to pick up a guitar in the very first place.
Circa Waves was formed in Liverpool in May 2013 by Kieran Shudall. After writing a batch of songs and putting some demos online, he recruited second guitarist Joe Falconer, bassist Sam Rourke, and drummer Sian Plummer (replaced by Colin Jones in 2015).
The band first gained a buzz and earned favourable comparisons to the Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, and the Vaccines before they hit the top ten with their debut, 2015’s Young Chasers on Virgin/EMI. Buoyed by singles like T-Shirt Weather and Stuck In My Teeth, the album reached the top ten of the UK albums chart and paved the way for a series of well-attended live shows, including a sold-out date at London’s O2.
TOUR DATES 2025
February
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Fri 14th | O2 Academy Birmingham |
| Sat 15th | Rock City Nottingham |
| Sun 16th | Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow |
| Tue 18th | Junction Cambridge |
| Wed 19th | UEA Norwich |
| Fri 21st | NX Newcastle |
| Sat 22nd | O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester |
| Sun 23rd | Beacon Bristol |
| Tue 25th | O2 Academy Leeds |
| Wed 26th | O2 Academy Brixton |
| Thu 27th | The 1865 Southampton |
March
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Sat 1st | Olympia Liverpool |
Tickets are now on sale
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