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PALE WAVES have announced their 2022 UK tour, kicking off on 11 February in Bristol and culminating in a huge hometown show in Manchester on 1 March.

The tour announcement comes ahead of the band’s highly anticipated second album WHO AM I? which is set for release on 12 February via Dirty Hit.

FEBRUARY 2022

Fri 11 BRISTOL O2 Academy
Sat 12 CARDIFF Great Hall
Sun 13 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Mon 14 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
Wed 16 BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
Thu 17 LEEDS O2 Academy
Sat 19 BELFAST Limelight
Sun 20 DUBLIN Academy
Mon 21 GLASGOW O2 Academy
Wed 23 SHEFFIELD O2 Academy
Fri 25 LEICESTER O2 Academy
Sat 26 OXFORD O2 Academy
Mon 28 LONDON Roundhouse

MARCH 2022

Tue 01 MANCHESTER O2 Victoria Warehouse

WHO AM I? features the singles ‘You Don’t Own Me’ ‘Easy’, ‘She’s My Religion’ and ‘Change’ and was recorded primarily in Los Angeles alongside producer RICH COSTEY [Muse, Sigur Rós, Foo Fighters] before the Coronavirus lockdown forced the making of the album to go virtual, with Heather and Ciara remaining in LA and the rest of the band returning home to record their parts in their bedrooms.

Consisting of frontwoman HEATHER BARON-GRACIE [she/her] drummer CIARA DORAN [they/them] guitarist HUGO SILVANI [he/him) and bassist CHARLIE WOOD [he/him] Pale Waves released their debut album MY MIND MAKES NOISES in September 2018, by which time they had already won the NME Under the Radar award, made the BBC Sound of 2018 shortlist and toured with fellow Dirty Hit label mates and mentors the 1975. When the album chart at #8 in the UK, PALE WAVES were seen as more than a breakthrough act and instead one of the most important emerging indie-pop bands in Britain.