Today is February 27th, 2025, and our favorite Welsh band, The Bug Club, return with “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” a joyous new ode to their beloved home country that features upbeat, regionally referential lyrics like “Have you ever been to Wales? It’s good, it’s goo-ooh-ooh-ooh-hood” and “…every choir from Caldicot to Treorchy will sing it proud.” The spirited new song, doubtless soon to be the new ad jingle for Visit Wales, is out now worldwide (including Wales) on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
 
The hard-working, never-not-touring Bug Club is on the road supporting their 2024 Sub Pop debut, On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System by Means of Popular Music, or the Contemplation of Pretty Faces, Tinned Bubbles and Strife, as well as playing new songs, and also older songs. Their international 2025 live schedule, which has the band headlining tonight (Thursday, February 27th) at London’s Electric Ballroom, currently ends at The End of the Road Festival in Dorset, UK (Saturday, August 30th).
 
Highlights for this announcement include The Bug Club’s North American dates (March 25th-April 11th), European club shows (April 29th-May 15th), and their international festival appearances (May 30th-August 31st; select dates)
 
Please find a complete list of tour dates below.

 
UK, Late Winter 2025
Thu. Feb. 27 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom *
Fri. Feb. 28 - Cardiff, UK -  Tramshed +
Sat. Mar. 01 - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hound #
 
* w/ Holiday Ghosts, John Myrtle
+ w/ Holiday Ghosts, The Family Battenburg
# w/ Getdown Services
 
North America, Spring 2025
Tue. Mar. 25 - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall !
Thu. Mar. 27 - Portland, OR - Polaris Hall
Fri. Mar. 28- Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
Sat. Mar. 29 - Baker City, OR Churchill School
Sun. Mar. 30 - Boise, ID - Treefort Festival
Tue. Apr. 01 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
Thu. Apr. 03 - Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street
Fri. Apr. 04 - Austin, TX - The Ballroom Texas
Sat. Apr. 05 -  Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
Sun. Apr. 06 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Wed. Apr. 09 - Las Vegas, NV - Swan Dive
Thu. Apr. 10 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
Fri. Apr. 11 -  San Diego, CA - Whistle Stop
 
! @ the We Are Busy Bodies 20th Anniversary Festival
 
Europe, Spring 2025
Tue. Apr. 29 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Club
Wed. Apr. 30 -  Eindhoven, NL - Altstadt
Thu. May 01 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Fri. May 02 - Utrecht, NL - De Nijverheid
Sat. May 03 - Groningen, NL - Vera
Mon. May 05 - Berlin, DE - Privatclub
Tue. May 06 - Hamburg, DE - Molotow Skybar
Wed. May 07 - Köln, DE - Blue Shell
Fri. May 09 - Milan, IT - Arci Bellezza
Sat. May 10 - Ravenna, IT - Bronson
Tue. May 13 - Paris, FR - Supersonic
Wed. May 14 - Lille, FR - L’Aeronef
Thu. May 15 - Antwerp, BE - Trix
 
US/UK Summer Festivals / Support Shows 2025
Sat. May 31 - Cheltenham, UK - Wychwood Festival
Fri. Jun 20 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sat. Jun. 21 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sun. Jun. 22 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sat. Jul. 26 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed Festival
Wed. Aug. 27 - Sheffield, UK - Don Valley Stadium ^
Sat. Aug. 30 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival
 
^ w/ Queens of the Stone Age

 
The Bug Club’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System… is out now worldwide from Sub Pop. The album, which features feel-good ditties “Quality Pints,” and “Lonsdale Slipons,” was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
 
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System sees the band serve up a beefy slab of their signature Modern-Lovers-meets-Nuggets garage rock, featuring B-52’s call-and-response fun mixed with AC/DC power chord grunt (read more at Sub Pop).
 
The album and its singles saw support from the likes of NME, BBC, KEXP, Bandcamp Daily, Brooklyn Vegan, PASTE, Stereogum, SeeSaw, Dusted, The Stranger  Rosy Overdrive, Glide, and more. NME said, “…its 11 songs crackle with incisive melodies and funny pop culture-addled lyrics – they reference The Great Escape’s Virgil Hilts one minute, and move on to the horror of Lonsdale slip on daps the next – but they’re in and out in under 26 minutes. Zero fat.”
 
The Bug Club’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System… is available on CD/LP/DSPs from the Sub Pop Mega Mart (North America), Mega Mart 2 (UK/EU), and independent retailers worldwide.