The Wombats announce August date at the 3Olympia Theatre Dublin

The Wombats have announced dates at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre and Belfast's Telegraph Building, set to take place in late August to celebrate the release of their fifth studio album Fix Yourself, Not The World.

The January LP topped the UK albums chart, making it their debut number one album. The new tour dates will see the trio play headline shows in Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Sheffield, Norwich, Nottingham, Birmingham and Manchester, in addition to their previously announced arena tour.

As well as eight dates in their homeland and two dates in the Emerald Isle, the band will also perform at Community Festival, Tramlines Festival, Kendal Calling, Newmarket Racecourse, Boardmasters and Victorious Festival this summer.

Recording remotely from their respective homes, The Wombats worked hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With frontman Matthew “Murph” Murphy 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), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The War on Drugs, Yungblud) to mix into the finished tracks.

“It was pure madness, to be honest,” explains Murph. “We’re so excited for people to hear this new album! We’ve explored new genres and pushed ourselves further than ever musically. It will always stand out for us in our memories from our other albums as we recorded it across three cities during lockdown, and we weren’t all in the same room at the same time!” says Dan Haggis.

Over 15 years into their career, The Wombats are pulling in bigger audiences 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.

TikTok has helped the band surpass 1.5 billion worldwide streams, also amassing an extra 2.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify in just six months; further illustration, if any were needed, of The Wombats’ ability to reach new generations of fans through their songwriting and lyrics alone.

Tickets from €35.50 including booking fee go on sale this Friday at 9am.

Tickets available for their August 21st and 22nd Irish dates here.

Stream Fix Yourself, Not The World below:

Revisit The Wombats' 2008 interview with Hot Press here.