Olly Alexander aka Years & Years has announced details of his UK and Ireland tour for next year. The ‘Nigh Call’ tour will support his upcoming new album with the same title.
Years & Years new release and third album in his career has been announced last month. “NIGHT CALL – my new album is out on the 7th January. Night Call has been my escape for the past couple of years, I’m so excited to share it with you all” said the Twitter caption. It will be the first solo release since Years & Years became a one vocalist project. The album is out on 7th January and can be pre-ordered here.
this is your night call join me for a moment in the stars to get exclusive access before the tickets are set live, pre-order from the official store before 5pm on the 2nd November if you’ve already pre-ordered you’ll get automatic access https://t.co/p3Oh1QPaKO pic.twitter.com/YpLv902C2q
— Years & Years (@yearsandyears) October 29, 2021
Years & Years used to be a synth-pop trio made out with singer Olly Alexander, bassist Mikey Goldsworthy and keyboardist Emre Turkmen. The split in 2015, after releasing a single “King” that reached No 1 spot in UK Charts.
In April this year, Alexander announced that the band now will be a solo project. He put some highlights with regards to split saying: “I’ll tell you the honest truth of what happened was is; me, Mikey and Emre met, like, ten years ago“.
“We’ve been in this band for a decade, and in that time, we’ve just kind of grown apart musically, right. We kind of stopped making music together, and when we announced that I was going to be Olly Years & Years, it had kind of been a long time coming if that makes sense” he added.
Along with the album announcement, Alexander shared a new single “Crave” and a video for it. You can watch the video below.
Speaking about the upcoming album Alexander said: “I’ve been writing all the songs for this new album, and Emre’s working on other stuff, he’s got his family to raise and so it’s just an honest thing. We didn’t fall out, we’re all mates and stuff, it’s definitely different but I’m really excited as well to kind of do my thing this time“.
Asked why did he choose to stay with the band name and not release music under his own name, he commented: “These songs I’ve written like ten years ago, some of them, I don’t want to let them go, I still want to do it, so I felt like, this is just felt right to stay as Years & Years I think“.
Last month Years & Years collaborated with Kylie Minogue on a single “A Second To Midnight”. He has also been recently announced as a headliner at next year Glasgow festival – Colourboxx that will take place in June 2022.
Years and Years UK and Ireland tour will begin in May in Brighton and will end up in June in Glasgow. Tickets to the tour are available here from 9 am on the 5th of November.
See full dates of Years & Years 2022 Tour below:
19/05/22 – Centre – Brighton
20/05 – International Centre – Bournemouth
21/05 – Resorts World Arena – Birmingham
26/05 – Wembley Arena – London
28/05 – AO Arena – Manchester
24/06 – National Museum of Ireland – Dublin
25/06 – Colourboxx Festival at Bellahouston Park – Glasgow
