Doors: 8 pm
About The Wombats:
Released in 2007, A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation was the album that firmly announced The Wombats as one of the UK’s most exciting new indie bands. Featuring fan favourites including ‘Let’s Dance to Joy Division’, ‘Kill the Director’ and ‘Moving to New York’, it has sold over 400,000 copies in the UK, been streamed more than half a billion times and is BPI certified platinum.
The record captured the energy and humour of a band finding their voice, navigating the highs and lows of relationships, nightlife and growing up. It quickly became a defining release of its era, reaching the UK Top 20 and cementing The Wombats’ place at the heart of the indie scene, while introducing the band’s unmistakable sound and laying the foundations for a career that continues to thrive.
Since they emerged as leading lights of the late-‘00s indie rock scene frontman Matthew ‘Murph’ Murphy, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis have maintained an incredible upward momentum. 2011’s electro-flecked second album This Modern Glitch made them Top Ten regulars; 2015’s third Glitterbug saw them embraced by the TikTok generation, with ‘Greek Tragedy’ a viral hit several times over. By 2018’s Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life they’d stepped up to arenas and 2022’s Fix Yourself, Not the World consolidated their unstoppable rise with the band’s first Number One album, seeing them reach over 2.5 billion streams. The Wombats have continued to tour, headlining major shows at Crystal Palace and The O2, while remaining a constant presence on festival line-ups across the UK and beyond. Most recently, their latest album, Oh! The Ocean saw the band continue their chart success, reaching No. 4 in the UK Official Albums Chart and No. 1 on the Independent Albums Chart, further cementing their status as one of the UK’s most enduring indie bands.
