Soft Play announce 2024 ‘Heavy Jelly’ UK tour

Soft Play have announced a UK headline tour for later this year – you can find all the details below.

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The duo – FKA Slaves – will hit the road this autumn in support of their fourth studio album ‘Heavy Jelly’, which is due for release on July 19 (pre-order/pre-save here).

Kicking off in Brighton on October 15, the upcoming run of dates will also include stop-offs in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Norwich and other locations throughout the month.

The tour is set to conclude with a Halloween gig at the O2 Academy Brixton in London on October 31. Support will come from Panic Shack.

Tickets go on general sale at 9am BST next Friday (June 21) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time on Wednesday (19) by pre-ordering ‘Heavy Jelly’ from the band’s website before 3pm BST on Tuesday (18).

Check out the announcement post and full itinerary below.

General sale Friday 21st June. Anyone that’s already pre-ordered the album from our store will be sent a pre-sale code. xxx

— SOFT PLAY (@softplayband) June 13, 2024

Soft Play’s 2024 UK headline tour dates are:

OCTOBER
15 – Dome, Brighton 
16 – Tramshed, Cardiff
18 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
19 – O2 Academy, Bristol
20 – O2 Academy, Leeds
22 – Octagon, Sheffield 
23 – Academy, Manchester 
25 – O2 Academy, Liverpool
26 – NX, Newcastle
27 – Barrowland, Glasgow
29 – Rock City, Nottingham 
30 – UEA, Norwich 
31 – O2 Academy Brixton, London 

The tour will follow summer festival appearances at Download, Glastonbury, Tramlines, Truck, Y Not, Boardmasters, Yungblud‘s BludFest, and Victorious.

Soft Play have already previewed ‘Heavy Jelly’ with the singles ‘Punk’s Dead’, ‘Mirror Muscles’, ‘Act Violently’ and ‘Everything And Nothing’.

Earlier this year, Soft Play spoke to NME about their name change, and revealed that the decision to retire the Slaves moniker was partly inspired by a conversation they had with Bob Vylan due to the perceived racial insensitivity of the name.

“He basically said we were one of his favourite bands but he wouldn’t wear our merch,” explained Isaac Holman.

Laurie Vincent added: “If he felt uncomfortable about liking us, there must be others who feel the same way.”

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