Today, you can hear The Bug Club’s “Yours (If You Want Me),” the introspective, tender, anxious, and really good new single out today on all streaming services from Sub Pop. This new standout is from Every Single Muscle, the Welsh duo’s new album out May 29th, 2026.
The Bug Club is also announcing new US tour dates for June and July 2026, beginning Thursday, June 18th in Toronto, ON at The Garrison and running through Friday, July 10th in Chicago, IL at Lincoln Hall. Tickets for these shows will be on sale Friday, March 27th at 10 AM (Local).
The Bug Club has also added three shows to its previously announced headlining UK run for May and June 2026. The new shows include two nights in Manchester at The Eagle on Thursday, May 14th & Friday, May 15th, and one night in Glasgow at The Glad Cafe on Saturday, May 16th. The band will also support Super Furry Animals at Brixton Academy in London on May 23rd. Please see a full list of dates below.
May/June/August 2026, UK Shows Sat. May 09 - Wrexham, UK - The Rockin’ Chair Thu. May 14 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle Fri. May 15 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle Sat. May 16 - Glasgow, UK - The Glad Cafe Sat. May 23 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton Mon. Jun. 01- Norwich, UK - Arts Centre Tue. Jun. 02 - Brighton, UK - Concorde 2 Wed. Jun. 03 - Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall (Bristol Beacon) Thu. Jun. 04 - Liverpool, UK - Hangar 34 Fri. Jun. 05 - Leeds, UK - Project House Sat. Jun. 06 - Barry, UK - Memo Arts Centre Sat. Aug. 22 - Crickhowell, UK, Green Man Festival * supporting Super Furry Animals
June/July 2026, US Shows Thu. Jun. 18 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison ^ Fri. Jun. 19 - Picton, ON - Matron Brewing ^ Sat. Jun. 20 - Burnstown, ON - Neat ^ Sun. Jun. 21 - Montreal, QC - Foufs ^ Wed. Jun. 24 - Charlottetown, PE - Trailside Inn ^ Thu. Jun. 25 - Fredericton, NB - The Cap ^ Fri. Jun. 26 - Halifax, NS - Seahorse ^ Sat. Jun. 27 - Sydney, NS - Daniel’s Ale House ^ Mon. Jun. 29 - Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery Tue. Jun. 30 - Medford, MA - Deep Cuts Wed. Jul. 01 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Rooftop Thu. Jul. 02 - Philadelphia, PA - Ukie Club Mon. Jul. 06 - Washington, DC - DC9 Tue. Jul. 07 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room Wed. Jul. 08 - Asheville, NC - Static Age Thu. Jul. 09 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room @ Third Man Fri. Jul. 10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall ^ w/ Boojums
Every Single Muscle is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition opaque blue (NA) and blue vinyl (UK/EU)(all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!). Every Single Muscle also features what is likely the band’s most BONKERS cover art to date, illustrated by Ross Willmett.
Every Single Muscle features today’s offering “Yours (If You Want Me), along with approximately 17 other tight and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Watching the Omnibus,” “A Good Day for Dying,” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
What People Are Saying About The Bug Club “Welsh duo The Bug Club have become one of the most reliable DIY-style indie rock groups of the last few years, and the first single from their upcoming album Every Single Muscle does not disappoint. “Watching the Omnibus” is a patented Bug Club ripper that clocks in at just over a minute, packed with hooks and self-deprecating lyrics.” “Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of February 2026” - BROOKLYN VEGAN
“‘Watching the Omnibus’ packs a ton of amped-up guitar riffage and existentialism into less than 90 seconds: “I’m still alive and kicking/ And doing reasonable well/ You’ve got to die for something/ But there’s some things we don’t sell,” go some of its more memorable lines.” STEREOGUM
The Bug Club Every Single Muscle
Tracklisting: 1. Miss Wales 2012 2. A Good Day for Dying 3. Make It Count 4. Cut to Black 5. Full Range of Motion 6. Pretty as a Magazine 7. Look Like Me 8. How Can We Be Friends 9. Every Single Muscle 10. Shiny and Wet 11. Semi-Automatic 12. In My Short Life 13. Watching the Omnibus 14. It’s Our Manager David 15. Yours (If You Want Me) 16. All My Clothes Fell Off 17. Third Best Friend 18. My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat
Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales’ finest, The Bug Club, will release Every Single Muscle, their incredible new album on CD/LP/all DSPs worldwide on Friday, May 29th, from Sub Pop. The 18-track longplayer features today’s first single, “Watching the Omnibus,” along with approximately 17 other tight, anxious, and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Yours (If You Want Me),” “A Good Day for Dying,” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
Every Single Muscle is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition opaque blue (NA) and blue vinyl (UK/EU)(all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!). Every Single Muscle also features what is likely the band’s most BONKERS cover art to date, illustrated by Ross Willmett.
The Bug Club has also announced headlining UK dates for May and June 2026, plus a May 23rd support slot opening for Super Furry Animals in London. Additional live dates will be announced soon.
Sat. May 09 - Wrexham, UK - The Rockin’ Chair Sat. May 23 - London, UK - Brixton Academy* Mon. Jun. 01- Norwich, UK - Arts Centre Tue. Jun. 02 - Brighton, Uk - Concorde 2 Wed. Jun. 03 - Bristol, UK - The Lantern Thu. Jun. 04 - Liverpool, UK - Hangar 34 Fri. Jun. 05 - Leeds, UK - Project House Sat. Jun. 06 - Barry, UK - Memo Arts Centre * supporting Super Furry Animals
More on The Bug Club’s Every Single Muscle:
The Bug Club are back with a new album. It’s been a whole eleven months since their last. Where have they been?
Every Single Muscle, the band’s fifth LP, arrives 29th May 2026 via Sub Pop, making it a hat-trick for the Welsh duo and their esteemed Seattle-based patrons. Since Very Human Features, which emerged in June of 2025, the non-stop tour has seen the BBC 6 Music and KEXP favourites ping-pong across the Atlantic like they used to the Severn Bridge. Various festival slots in the summer kept them from having any sort of holiday - who needs one when you live in Wales anyway? - until it was time to head back to the writing room.
So that answers that first question. Not that you’d have otherwise known. Ever self-effacing, songwriters Sam (guitar, vocals) and Tilly (bass, vocals) go as far as to claim that they’ve been sitting around “doing nothing at all” during track “It’s Our Manager David.” That’s clearly a lie. Every Single Muscle gets off to a full-throttle, chugging start with “Miss Wales 2012,” referencing a competition both Tilly and Sam have actually won. Dead serious. It’s the first of many sub-two-minute tracks on the album, setting the tone for The Bug Club’s punkiest offering yet and recalling both the short, sharp snaps of their very first singles and the grunt of recent releases. So packed is the album with wall-to-wall riffs and lyrical hooks rammed into tight confines that Sam actually asks permission to squeeze in a solo during second track “A Good Day for Dying.” He’s given two seconds.
Not that we’re short-changed, though, because Sam asks again later on and is granted more. Across eighteen tunes there’s enough classic Sam/Tilly guitar interplay to satisfy even the most vociferous Bug Club club member and firmly refute the band’s own claim that they are only “just about technically proficient on our instruments.” “Full Range of Motion” has a choppy rhythm that sits atop drummer Tom’s tight beat and serves to remind us all of Minutemen, for a minute. “Make It Count” brings sweet melody and call and response, while “All My Clothes Fell Off” allows for a slower paced ballad that builds to a crescendo that would not be out of place in the world of classic rock. “Cut to Black” combines a Sparks-esque falsetto and Tilly’s melodic bass playing with a rhythm something close-ish to what Klaus Dinger used to do for Neu! And closer “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat” sees them doing a bit of a left turn and swapping out guitars for keys. This record’s an exercise in efficient maximalism - the musical equivalent of your dad packing the car for a holiday. Bring what you like; space is tight but they’ll get it in there somehow.
On to the words, because with these guys those are important. While Very Human Features did an excellent job of pointing at everyday things and highlighting their absurdity, on Every Single Muscle The Bug Club look more closely at themselves. Not so much in an introspective way, though. More in a way an alien might probe a captive specimen on an intergalactic gurney. Horror movies get their “body” subgenre, now garage rock albums get theirs too. Self-interested in an entirely new sense of the term, the human form and condition is prodded and inspected from every angle throughout the course of the album. “Look Like Me” sees them singing about their own appearance, while on “How Can We Be Friends” they are preoccupied with others’. “Every Single Muscle” itemises organs as if they belong on a shopping list, and both “Make It Count” and “Pretty as a Magazine” bemoan the fact people don’t know what to do with their own bodies. Altogether, we get a sense of surreal detachment from the self that sets up the ever-present ennui-laden humour; the last song sees Sam announce he’s “bored of being human.” The Bug Club seem almost suspicious of the concept of being a person - as if they’ve woken up in a costume they didn’t want to put on and cannot take off.
Initially comprising the songwriting core of Sam Willmett (vocals/guitar) and Tilly Harris (vocals/bass) with Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug Club started plying their trade in 2016. They were signed by UK label Bingo Records in Autumn 2020 and first single “We Don’t Need Room for Lovin” was released in February 2021, followed by EP Launching Moondream One. It quickly established The Bug Club as the tongue-in-cheek and live-focused antidote to the previous year’s penned-in pandemic drudgery. BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley was an early champion.
Pure Particles followed, whose vinyl release included a board game brimming with cult references. Fed up with the conventional approach they then released “Intelectuals”: a standalone track that was actually a five-track “song suite” like some kind of streaming-model-snubbing, Telecaster-bashing answer to Bach. Highbrow musos took a lyrical beating for the ages. Second standalone release “Two Beauties” marked release number two for 2022 and built up to the appearance of debut album Green Dream in F# by October. The following January they decided to pull their fingers out, get some disguises and support themselves on tour as Mr Anyway’s Holey Spirits. A live album documented this, then they got abstract with titles and put out the picture disc Picture This! By the autumn of 2023 it was time for forty-seven track, poetry-infused double album Rare Birds: Hour of Song.
During a trip to America they caught the eye of Sub Pop, just in time to get them on board to serve up a beefy slab of garage-punk on On the Inner Workings of the System, gaining an appropriately beefed-up stateside following in the process. The partnership proved fruitful, and with Sup Pop firmly in The Bug Club club they got cracking on Very Human Features. Is three the magic number? Probably not. But Every Single Muscle - number three for The Bug Club and Sub Pop - certainly comes close enough to convince your average strange human person that it might be.
The Bug Club Every Single Muscle
Tracklisting: 1. Miss Wales 2012 2. A Good Day for Dying 3. Make It Count 4. Cut to Black 5. Full Range of Motion 6. Pretty as a Magazine 7. Look Like Me 8. How Can We Be Friends 9. Every Single Muscle 10. Shiny and Wet 11. Semi-Automatic 12. In My Short Life 13. Watching the Omnibus 14. It’s Our Manager David 15. Yours (If You Want Me) 16. All My Clothes Fell Off 17. Third Best Friend 18. My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat
Today is May 14th, and The Bug Club are sharing “Appropriate Emotions,” a new offering and the closing track from the group’s forthcoming new long-player, Very Human Features.
It’s no surprise that, in poking fun at the familiar, the humour is turned inwards and it’s The Bug Club themselves in their own firing line. It’s a rollercoaster unpicking of whatever-it-is The Bug Club do, while at the same time building on the work done in previous albums and presenting us with layers of creativity piled up atop one another.
Sam and Tilly, combined. There’s a name for that - and it’s tempting to think that they might be, given all the joking around. But the multi-dimensional nature to The Bug Club is what makes Very Human Features just as relistenable as their previous work.
The new single tackles expectations and comparisons, with a loud-quiet-loud structure reflecting the ups-and-downs and outbursts unavoidable in frustration and anger. “Appropriate Emotions” manages to be deeply relatable while making its singers sound about as removed from the human experience as possible - perhaps that’s why it’s relatable.
The Bug Club is currently on the road supporting Very Human Features and their previous Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System by Means of Popular Music, or the Contemplation of Pretty Faces, Tinned Bubbles and Strife. PLUS! Some of their older songs. Tonight, Wednesday, May 14th they’ll headline L’Aeronef in Lille, France, before a short UK festival run May 15th-May 31st, which includes two appearances at The Great Escape Festival.
Then in June, the band will pair up with Sub Pop label mates Omni for a month-long trek beginning Friday, June 13th in Montreal, QC at Cabaret Foufounes and running through Friday, June 27th in Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s.
From July 26th-September 13th, the Bug Club will hit the UK festival circuit once again, with stops at Deershed Festival (Jul. 26th), Utrecht, NL’s Loose Ends Festival (Aug.23rd), End of the Road Festival (Aug. 29th), Manchester’s Psych Fest (Aug. 30th), and Sonic Boom Festival (Sep.13th). They’ll also support Queens of the Stone Age in Sheffield (Aug. 27th). Please find a complete list of current tour dates below.
UK | EU Headlining Dates + Festivals, Spring 2025 Wed. May 14 - Lille, FR - L’Aeronef Thu. May 15 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ Paganini Ballroom (Early) Thu. May 15 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ The Old Market (Late) Sat. May 24 - Walton-on-Trent, UK - Bearded Theory, Festival Sat. May 31 - Cheltenham, UK - Wychwood Festival
North American | UK Headline Dates, Festivals + Support Shows, Summer 2025 Fri. Jun. 13 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Foufounes * Sat. Jun. 14 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison * Sun. Jun. 15 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records * Tue. Jun. 17 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle * Wed. Jun. 18 - St. Louis, MO - Sinkhole * Thu. Jun. 19 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR * Fri. Jun 20 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival Sat. Jun. 21 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival Mon. Jun. 23 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West * Tue. Jun. 24 - Raleigh, NC - King’s * Wed. Jun. 25 - Washington, DC- DC9 * Thu. Jun. 26 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom* Fri. Jun. 27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s * Sat. Jul. 26 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed Festival Sat. Aug. 23 – Utrecht, NL – Loose Ends Festival Wed. Aug. 27 - Sheffield, UK - Don Valley Stadium ^ Fri. Aug. 29 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival Sat. Aug. 30 - Manchester, UK - Psych Fest Sat. Sep. 13 - Burton-on-Trent, UK - Sonic Boom Festival
* w/ Omni ^ w/ Queens of the Stone Age
The Bug Club’s Very Human Features includes the only-very-recently mentioned “Appropriate Emotions,” “How to Be a Confidante,” “Jealous Boy,” and ten other excellent songs. It was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
Very Human Features is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MM2 in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition on Purple (NA) or Bio Pink (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!).
The Bug Club has seen support from the likes of NME, BBC, KEXP, Bandcamp Daily, Brooklyn Vegan, PASTE, Stereogum, see/saw, Dusted, The Stranger Rosy Overdrive, Glide, and more. NME said of their 2024 release On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System…., “…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 Very Human Features
Tracklisting: 1. Full Grown Man 2. Twirling in the Middle 3. Jealous Boy 4. Young Reader 5. Beep Boop Computers 6. Muck (Very Human Features) 7. When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn 8. How to Be a Confidante 9. Living in the Future 10. Tales of a Visionary Teller 11. The Sound of Communism 12. Blame Me 13. Appropriate Emotions
Today is April 16th, and The Bug Club is sharing “How to Be a Confidante,” a new single from the group’s forthcoming new long-player, Very Human Features.
On Very Human Features, The Bug Club continues their habit of presenting as a collective mind. Two-in-one. Rarely do you find a band with two creative forces that have such a singular, shared perspective, sense of humor, and knack for a pop melody. “How to Be a Confidante” does that-thing-The-Bug-Club-really-know-how-to-do where they speak as two voices from the same mind and pluck out common aspects of how we all live and make them sound ridiculous. The surreal is in the familiar, not in ignoring the familiar - The Bug Club knows this, and that understanding joins an unrelenting bassline in forming the backbone of this garage-infused belter.
The Bug Club will spend a good deal of time on the road in 2025 performing “How to Be a Confidante” along with other choice highlights from Very Human Features and their previous Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System by Means of Popular Music, or the Contemplation of Pretty Faces, Tinned Bubbles and Strife. PLUS! Some of their older songs.
And today, the band is announcing new North American dates with Sub Pop labelmates Omni, which begin Friday, June 13th in Montreal, QC at Cabaret Foufounes and run through Friday, June 27th in Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s.
Additional international touring highlights for the Spring and Summer of 2025 include The Bug Club’s European club shows (April 29th-May 15th), and festival appearances (May 15th-September ; select dates). Please find a complete list of current tour dates below.
UK | EU Headlining Dates + Festivals, Spring 2025 Tue. Apr. 29 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Club [Sold Out] Wed. Apr. 30 - Eindhoven, NL - Altstadt Thu. May 01 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje Fri. May 02 - Utrecht, NL - De Nijverheid [Sold Out] 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 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ Paganini Ballroom (Early) Thu. May 15 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ The Old Market (Late) Sat. May 24 - Walton-on-Trent, UK - Bearded Theory, Festival Sat. May 31 - Cheltenham, UK - Wychwood Festival
North American | UK Headline Dates, Festivals + Support Shows, Summer 2025 Fri. Jun. 13 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Foufounes * Sat. Jun. 14 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison * Sun. Jun. 15 - Detroit, MI - Third Man Records * Tue. Jun. 17 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle * Wed. Jun. 18 - St. Louis, MO - Sinkhole * Thu. Jun. 19 - Nashville, TN - DRKMTTR * Fri. Jun 20 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival Sat. Jun. 21 - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival Mon. Jun. 23 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West * Tue. Jun. 24 - Raleigh, NC - King’s * Wed. Jun. 25 - Washington, DC- DC9 * Thu. Jun. 26 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom* Fri. Jun. 27 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s * Sat. Jul. 26 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed Festival Wed. Aug. 27 - Sheffield, UK - Don Valley Stadium ^ Fri. Aug. 29 - Dorset, UK - End of the Road Festival Sat. Aug. 30 - Manchester, UK - Psych Fest Sat. Sep. 13 - Burton-on-Trent, UK - Sonic Boom Festival
* w/ Omni ^ w/ Queens of the Stone Age
The Bug Club’s Very Human Features includes the only-very-recently mentioned “How to Be a Confidante,” along with “Appropriate Emotions,” “Jealous Boy,” and ten other excellent songs. It was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
Very Human Features is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MM2 in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition on Purple (NA) or Bio Pink (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!).
In February, The Bug Club released “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” a joyous 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 song, doubtless soon to be the new ad jingle for Visit Wales, is also out now worldwide (including Wales) on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
The Bug Club has seen support from the likes of NME, BBC, KEXP, Bandcamp Daily, Brooklyn Vegan, PASTE, Stereogum, see/saw, Dusted, The Stranger Rosy Overdrive, Glide, and more. NME said of their 2024 release On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System…., “…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 Very Human Features
Tracklisting: 1. Full Grown Man 2. Twirling in the Middle 3. Jealous Boy 4. Young Reader 5. Beep Boop Computers 6. Muck (Very Human Features) 7. When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn 8. How to Be a Confidante 9. Living in the Future 10. Tales of a Visionary Teller 11. The Sound of Communism 12. Blame Me 13. Appropriate Emotions
Today is March 24th, and we’re here with details on The Bug Club’s new long-player, Very Human Features! Out worldwide on Friday, June 13th from Sub Pop, the album, includes the singles “How to Be a Confidante,” “Appropriate Emotions,” and today’s tour de force, “Jealous Boy.” It was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.
Very Human Features is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MM2 in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser edition on Purple (NA) and Bio Pink (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!).
The Bug Club will spend a good deal of time on the road in 2025 performing songs from Very Human Features, along with some from their previous Sub Pop release, 2024’s 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 some of their older songs.
Their Spring North American tour begins tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 25th in Toronto at Longboat Hall and currently runs through Friday, April 11th in San Diego at the Whistle Stop.
Additional international touring highlights for the Spring and Summer of 2025 include The Bug Club’s European club shows (April 29th-May 15th), and festival appearances (May 15th-August 31st; select dates). Additional live dates will be announced soon.
Please find a complete list of current tour dates below.
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 [Sold Out] 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 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ Paganini Ballroom (Early) Thu. May 15 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival @ The Old Market (Late)
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
Last Month, The Bug Club released “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” a joyous 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 song, doubtless soon to be the new ad jingle for Visit Wales, is also out now worldwide (including Wales) on all DSPs from Sub Pop.
The Bug Club has seen support from the likes of NME, BBC, KEXP, Bandcamp Daily, Brooklyn Vegan, PASTE, Stereogum, see/saw, Dusted, The Stranger Rosy Overdrive, Glide, and more. NME said of their 2024 release On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System…., “…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.”
More on The Bug Club’s Very Human Features:
The Bug Club are back, again, for their annual appointment at the garage rock makers’ market, where they’re flogging yet another pedigree record.
LP number four, Very Human Features, arrives June 13th, hot on the heels of the band’s first Sub Pop release, 2024’s On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System. That record saw the band continue their love affair with BBC Radio 6, start up a new one with KEXP thanks to a session with them, and crop up in the pages of the NME. Anything else from the bucket list? Oh yeah, festival slots including packing home ground Green Man’s Walled Garden to its non-existent rafters. Then shows across the US in those venues us Brits tend to hear about and that’s as far as we get. This record gives the band an excuse to continue their never-ending tour and feed their baying fans, engorged and expectant thanks to this band’s relentless record-releasing hot streak, a new batch of typically playful, riff-laden, smart Bug Club Tunes.
But first, a standalone single, because that’s how things are done here. “Have you ever been to Wales?”, asks the band in “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales.” If not, why not? It’s good. A new, discordant national anthem, if they didn’t already have a decent harmonious one. Oh, to be from a country where national pride is something other than the mark of a tosser. Starting as a classic, chugging chantalong, it’s interrupted by what sounds like an alien choir before they let rip. Think Dinosaur Jr. with a job at the tourist board. And Welsh. Definitely Welsh (read more at Sub Pop).
The Bug Club Very Human Features
Tracklisting: 1. Full Grown Man 2. Twirling in the Middle 3. Jealous Boy 4. Young Reader 5. Beep Boop Computers 6. Muck (Very Human Features) 7. When the Little Choo Choo Train Toots His Little Horn 8. How to Be a Confidante 9. Living in the Future 10. Tales of a Visionary Teller 11. The Sound of Communism 12. Blame Me 13. Appropriate Emotions
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.”
