Soft Play have announced a UK headline tour which will take place later this year. The Tunbridge Wells duo, formerly known as Slaves, will travel all across the UK in autumn this year, touring throughout October. The tour will be in support of their upcoming album, ‘Heavy Jelly’, and will be their first UK headline tour since 2018 when they hit the road in support of their last album, ‘Acts of Fear and Love’, When they still had their old name.
The announcement comes just 24 hours before the Kent double act are set to perform at download festival in Leicestershire and will see them perform 13 dates up and down the UK. Kicking off the tour in Brighton at The Dome, they will then play dates in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Norwich before concluding the run with a Halloween show at the O2 academy Brixton, in London. The whole tour will see support from Cardiff based punk band Panic Shack.
“HERE WE FUCKING GOOOO” the band said on their Instagram when announcing their first UK headline tour in six years. Fans will be able to get tickets on pre-sale on Wednesday the 19th of June at 9am BST if they pre order their upcoming album ‘Heavy Jelly’ before 3pm BST on the 18th of June which you can do here. General sale for the tour will open at 9am on Friday the 21st of June.
HERE WE FUCKING GOOOO
Pre-order Heavy Jelly from our store before 3pm on Tuesday June 18th to gain access to pre-sale for our 2024 tour – pre-sale opens Wednesday June 19th at 9am. https://t.co/nSD1ZBA1FY pic.twitter.com/tFQZLPIJbz
— SOFT PLAY (@softplayband) June 13, 2024
Check out the bands full list of dates for their 2024 tour below:
October
15 Brighton The Dome
16 Cardiff The Tramshed
18 Birmingham O2 Institute
19 Bristol O2 Academy
20 Leeds O2 Academy
22 Sheffield Tramshed
23 Manchester O2 Academy
25 Liverpool O2 Academy
26 Newcastle NX
27 Glasgow Barrowland
29 Nottingham Rock City
30 Norwich UEA
31 London O2 Academy Brixton
The tour will follow a busy summer festival period for the punk duo including sets at Download festival this weekend, Glastonbury later this month and Victorious festival at the end of the summer.
The tour will support their new album ‘Heavy Jelly’, which we have already seen four singles from, to give us an idea of what to expect from the album and it’s all been very promising so far. The singles of of the album so far are ‘Punk’s Dead’, ‘Mirror Muscles’, ‘Act Violently’ and their latest release was the very emotional track ‘Everything And Nothing’ which was a bit of a switch from the slightly punchier tracks we saw recently.
Isaac Holman, the band’s singer, said that their latest single, ‘Everything And Nothing’, was inspired by huge losses that both members of the band experienced: ““I started writing the words in lockdown in the depths of a mental health breakdown, my good mate Bailey had just passed away, Laurie had not long lost his partner, Emma, to cancer. It was one thing after the next.”
He added “We demo-ed the tune and took it to the studio, lyrics still unfinished. During that stint, I kept seeing people that looked like Bailey, which unlocked the next line of the tune and allowed the rest to come out.”
