Get ready to dive into an exhilarating journey with Circa Waves and Friday Pilots Club as they embark on a transatlantic tour. From the vibrant echoes of Boston’s Royale to the iconic stages of New York City's Webster Hall, and culminating at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, these bands promise to deliver an unforgettable musical experience. Witness how Circa Waves overcame creative hurdles to produce their third album and how both bands bring modern rock with a dash of pop flair to life onstage.

Circa Waves and Friday Pilots Club: A Transatlantic Tour

Circa Waves and Friday Pilots Club Tour

The Fillmore San Francisco

What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There? would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.

Circa Waves and Friday Pilots Club

Webster Hall

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Friday Pilots Club & Circa Waves

Royale

Known for their nervy, melodic indie rock, Britain’s Circa Waves first gained buzz in the 2010s with hooky singles like “Get Away” and “Stuck in My Teeth.” Centered on lead singer/songwriter Kieran Shudall, the band earned favorable comparisons to the Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, and the Vaccines even before they hit the Top Ten with their debut, 2015’s Young Chasers. Without shying away from their influences, the band has matured, and albums like 2017’s Different Creatures, 2019’s What’s It Like Over There? showcase their deepening maturity and knack for crafting their own distinctively infectious, post-punk anthems. In 2020, they reached number four on the U.K. albums chart with Sad Happy and returned in 2023 with Never Going Under.

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