Listen to “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales,” the Joyous New Anthem From The Bug Club!
2025 International Headlining Tour Dates, Underway
London’s Electric Ballroom Show Tonight, Thursday, 27th February
North American Tour Dates Begin Tuesday, 25th March in Toronto
Today is Thursday, 27th February, 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 (27th February) at London’s Electric Ballroom, currently ends at The End of the Road Festival in Dorset, UK (30th August).
Highlights for this announcement include The Bug Club’s North American dates (25th March - 11th April), European club shows (29th April-15th May), and their international festival appearances (30th May - 31st August; select dates)
Please find a complete list of tour dates below.
UK, Late Winter 2025
Thu. 27 Feb - London, UK - Electric Ballroom *
Fri. 28 Feb - Cardiff, UK - Tramshed +
Sat. 01 Mar - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hound #
* w/ Holiday Ghosts, John Myrtle
+ w/ Holiday Ghosts, The Family Battenburg
# w/ Getdown Services
North America, Spring 2025
Tue. 25 Mar - Toronto, ON - Longboat Hall !
Thu. 27 Mar - Portland, OR - Polaris Hall
Fri. 28 Mar - Seattle, WA - The Vera Project
Sat. 29 Mar - Baker City, OR Churchill School
Sun. 30 Mar - Boise, ID - Treefort Festival
Tue. 01 Apr - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
Thu. 03 Apr - Oklahoma City, OK - 89th Street
Fri. 04 Apr - Austin, TX - The Ballroom Texas
Sat. 05 Apr - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
Sun. 06 Apr - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Wed. 09 Apr - Las Vegas, NV - Swan Dive
Thu. 10 Apr - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
Fri. 11 Apr - San Diego, CA - Whistle Stop
! @ the We Are Busy Bodies 20th Anniversary Festival
Europe, Spring 2025
Tue. 29 Apr - Brugge, BE - Cactus Club
Wed. 30 Apr - Eindhoven, NL - Altstadt
Thu. 01 May - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Fri. 02 May - Utrecht, NL - De Nijverheid
Sat. 03 May - Groningen, NL - Vera
Mon. 05 May - Berlin, DE - Privatclub
Tue. 06 May - Hamburg, DE - Molotow Skybar
Wed. 07 May - Köln, DE - Blue Shell
Fri. 09 May - Milan, IT - Arci Bellezza
Sat. 10 May - Ravenna, IT - Bronson
Tue. 13 May - Paris, FR - Supersonic
Wed. 14 May - Lille, FR - L'Aeronef
Thu. 15 May - Antwerp, BE - Trix
US/UK Summer Festivals / Support Shows 2025
Sat. 31 May - Cheltenham, UK - Wychwood Festival
Fri. 20 Jun - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sat. 21 Jun - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sun. 22 Jun - Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Art & Music Festival
Sat. 26 Jul - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed Festival
Wed. 27 Aug - Sheffield, UK - Don Valley Stadium ^
Sat. 30 Aug - 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.
