#Live The Wombats making us dance and singalong in Detroit
North America Tour Dates
February 3 - Park West, Chicago, IL
February 4 - The Fillmore, Minneapolis, MN
February 5 - The Truman, Kansas City, MO
February 7 - Cannery, Nashville, TN
February 8 - Buckhead, Atlanta, GA
February 10 - House of Blues, Houston, TX
February 11 - Emo’s, Austin, TX
February 12 - House of Blues, Dallas, TX
February 14 - Ogden, Denver, CO
February 15 - Union, Salt Lake City, UT
February 17 - Showbox Market, Seattle, WA SOLD OUT
February 18 - Venue Nightclub, Vancouver, BC SOLD OUT
February 19 - Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
February 21 - The Regency, San Francisco, CA
February 22 - The Observatory, Santa Ana, CA
February 25 - The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
We had the chance to check out The Wombat’s show last night. It was purely a night of dancing and chanting along to every word. With a few of their classics mixed in, it was mostly filled with songs from their newest Fix Yourself, Not the World. It was hard not to dance along to each song with the energy they gave. Also, if this wasn’t any more of a huge promo to get you guys to come to the show: There is a dancing Wombat mascot. Did we win you over? There are shows still available.
More about The Wombat
Recording remotely over the past year from their respective homes, the band has been working hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive, and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With Murph” in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis in London, they discussed each day’s plan via Zoom, then recorded separately, sending individual files to producers Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves) and Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) to mix into the finished tracks. “It was pure madness, to be honest,” explains Murph.
15 years and three top 5 UK albums into their career, The Wombats are pulling in a bigger audience than ever before. The viral success of Oliver Nelson’s remix of their 2015 hit “Greek Tragedy” on TikTok has enraptured a whole new generation of fans, a feat they’ve managed to continually repeat since their 2007 debut A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation. Used in over 600,000 videos (some of which have over 100 million views), the remix has rocketed to over 30 million streams, propelling the original to 120 million streams and sending it Gold in the US. It’s helped the band surpass a billion worldwide streams, also amassing an extra 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify since just January; further illustration if any were needed, of The Wombats’ ability to reach new generations of fans through the timeless power of their songwriting and lyrics alone.