Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry has announced a solo UK headline tour to take place in March 2025 – check out the full list of shows below.
The singer is preparing to release her debut solo album ‘Vicious Creature’ on December 6 via EMI Records, and last week shared the latest single ‘Crocodile Tears’.
Now, she has announced a run of six headline shows around the UK, which will kick off with a hometown show at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on March 20. Dates in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds will follow, before the run wraps up at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on March 26.
Tickets go on pre-sale at 10am on November 6 for those who have pre-ordered the album, with general sale starting on November 8. You can get yours here.
Announcing my UK Tour dates for 2025! Pre-order the album to get access to a 48hr UK ticket pre-sale, starting 10am on Weds 6th Nov. https://t.co/YsioQ1ZY1x pic.twitter.com/piBTJxTAb9
— Lauren Mayberry (@laurenevemay) November 1, 2024
Lauren Mayberry will play:
MARCH 2025
20 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
21 – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele
23 – Birmingham, O2 Academy 2
24 – Manchester, Academy 2
25 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
26 – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Mayberry will also be joining London Grammar on their tour of the UK and Europe later this month, and will also be playing an extensive run of headline dates in North America in January and February.
Earlier this year, Mayberry introduced her “fun, freaky, sad, weird, joyful” solo career with the single ‘Are You Awake?’. She also embarked on her first run of solo dates around the US, the UK and Europe in September and October.
Mayberry spoke to NME last month about deciding to go solo and what to expect from her debut album.
She described her mood as like “the usual new music anxiety multiplied by, ‘What if nobody wants this or if everyone thinks you’re a fucking idiot for wanting to do it’ anxiety.”
“There’s always nervousness,” she continued. “For any frontperson in a band, but especially a woman, as soon as you say the words ‘solo material’ people get very upset with you. I feel like every second sentence is, ‘I’m not breaking up the band, guys, however…’
“But we’re lucky enough to have fans that care so much that they don’t want it to break up. I feel grateful, but I’m trying to be reassuring to them – ‘Just give us a couple more years guys, it’s going to be fine’.”
Speaking about the “isolating” experience of being a woman in a male-dominated music industry, she added: “I was 23 when Chvrches started, and from minute one it felt like all anyone wanted to talk about was my gender. A lot of the narrative was around what I looked like, what the guys didn’t look like and how that fit into the context. It felt odd, and it gives you quite a strange psychological separation from your physical self.
“Everyone was having this conversation about me, at me, and I wasn’t really involved in it. If you spend most of your formative years in those environments, how do you psychologically stitch that back together to have a more connected experience with yourself, your life and your writing?”
NME caught Mayberry’s show at KOKO in London on October 9. The four-star review stated: “She chucks in a mega and bombastic rendition of Madonna‘s ‘Like A Prayer’ to “pad out” the setlist, and keeps up her tradition of a new cover for each city she visits with a gorgeous outing of Spice Girls’ ‘Viva Forever’, as well as teaching us that saying “space ghetto” with an American accent is the easiest route to the Scottish pronunciation of ‘Spice Girls’… ensue the KOKO crowd having a go at a mass elocution lesson.
“It’s a thrilling reminder of her beginnings: ‘I did a Google and found a Chvrches show from 2012 where we only played seven songs,’ she offers. The eight new originals on offer tonight pack one heck of a punch, and if this is just a test drive then we’re in for one hell of a ride.”
