Teenage Fanclub announce new album Do Not Dare To Dream

Teenage Fanclub have announced a new album Do Not Dare To Dream, set for release October 9.

This will mark the band’s thirteenth album, following Nothing Lasts Forever released in 2023, which made the Top 40 on the Official Albums Chart after its debut.

“Those ‘dare to dream’ sentiments are kind of ridiculous,” lead singer Norman Blake explained of the album’s title. “I don’t think the world works that way.”

The Glasgow band was formed in 1989 by Blake, guitarist Raymond McGinley and bassist Gerard Love. Now known for their alternative power-pop sound, they released their first album, a grungy debut titled A Catholic Education, in 1990. They followed that with The King in 1991.

Teenage Fanclub reached critical acclaim with their other 1991 album Bandwagonesque, which peaked at No. 22 on the Official UK Albums Chart and single, ‘What You Do to Me,’ reached the top 20 on the US Modern Rock chart.

In 2018, Gerard Love left the band, prompting an updated lineup featuring bassist Dave McGowan, drummer Francis Macdonald and keyboardist Euros Childs.

The release of Do Not Dare To Dream will be accompanied by a 35-show tour across Europe, with two shows in Ireland – Belfast Empire Music Hall on November 16 and The Academy in Dublin on November 17.

“Yeah, it’s been a while since we started doing this thing we do, but to us it feels like no time at all,” said McGinley. “In the place where we made the record people would have been singing thousands of years ago. Life is short, but music is eternal.”

Tickets for the band’s Dublin show are available here.