ShareSeminal British band Wolf Alice have shared details of a huge headline tour in celebration of their recently announced fourth studio album The Clearing, due out on 29 August. The 43 date tour is their most ambitious to date and will see the quartet command some of the biggest and most coveted stages of their decade-long career.
The announcement of the tour follows the release of the first single Bloom Baby Bloom accompanied by the iconic Colin Solal Cardo-directed video. The track marked the beginning of an exciting new era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing, it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of new music in three years is a whip-smart de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock.
“I wanted a rock song; to focus on the performance element of a rock song, and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” Ellie Rowsell notes. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past and playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the ‘girl singer in band’ trope. But I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument, so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”
Written in Seven Sisters in London and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion.
Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding up a mirror to their own emerging generation. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated Moaning Lisa Smile, both captured and perfectly sound tracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, the 2018 follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Blue Weekend and its resultant Brit Award for Best Group.
TOUR DATES 2025
November
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Fri 28th | AO Arena Manchester |
| Sat 29th | Utilita Arena Birmingham |
December
| Date | Venue |
|---|---|
| Mon 1st | Utilita Arena Cardiff |
| Tue 2nd | The O2 London |
| Wed 3rd | The O2 London |
| Fri 5th | First Direct Arena Leeds |
| Sun 7th | OVO Hydro Arena Glasgow |
| Mon 8th | Motorpoint Arena Nottingham |
| Wed 10th | 3Arena Dublin |
Tickets are now on sale
