The Wombats are to play their biggest ever hometown show at Liverpool’s On The Waterfront next summer.
The indie trio will headline the festival at Pier Head on June 19, with other night’s lineups being topped by Irish rebel music legends The Wolfe Tones, the 50-piece Classical Ibiza Kaleidoscope Orchestra and Sting.
Tickets for The Wombats’ day at the festival, which will also feature performances from Pale Waves, Sawyer Hill and other acts to be confirmed, are on sale now and you can find yours here.
Writing about the show on Instagram, the band have said: “Liverpool did you think we’d forgotten about you?!! As if! We’re so excited to announce that we’re playing a huge hometown show, back where it all began, on the 19th June 2025 at the Pier Head!!
It’s going to be a special night.”
The date joins the previously announced UK arena tour the band will be playing in March next year, which includes dates in Nottingham, London’s O2, Cardiff, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds. See full details of the shows here and find remaining tickets here.
The band are preparing to release their sixth album ‘Oh! The Ocean’ on February 21, which they have previewed with the single ‘Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come’. It is their first full release since 2022’s chart-topping ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’.
The new record has been helmed by St Vincent and Death Cab For Cutie producer John Congleton and was inspired by a revelatory experience that frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy had on a beach during a family holiday this summer.
“I’d had a particularly funky morning and didn’t sleep well,” he told NME. “I took my family down to the beach around Orange County way, the kids were off playing and I was just stood there looking at the ocean. It was a very mushroomy experience.
“I saw the ocean and the waves and everything as if for the first time. It was like I was an alien, I’d come from a different planet and I was put on a beach and someone took my blindfold off and showed me the ocean. I was like, ‘What the fuck is that? How did it get there?’ It was the most awestruck I’ve ever been, really.”
