Panic Shack announce 2025 UK and European tour with riotous new single ‘Lady Band Starter Pack’

The Cardiff band are at present on tour, and have introduced a model new leg from October to December this 12 months.

Together with reveals at Manchester Academy 2 and Brighton’s Chalk, the group will host considered one of their largest headline reveals at London’s Brixton Electrical on December 4. Panic Shack will then spherical off their tour with a hometown gig at Cardiff’s Tramshed on December 5.

To announce their tour, the band launched ‘Lady Band Starter Pack’, which they stated was “the title of our inspiration playlist on Spotify once we first began the band.”

“It’s had many deaths and rebirths however has been with us because the begin, so it’s fairly particular to us,” they stated. “Not solely as a result of we’ve watched it morph into an authorized banger (it was as soon as named ‘Banger Potential’) however as a result of it personifies our friendship and the electrical energy we really feel once we’re collectively, whether or not that’s creating, enjoying or just simply grabbing a espresso … which because the music foretells, often results in a voddy.”

Pre-sale tickets can be found now, and normal sale will begin tomorrow (Might 9) at 10am BST right here. See the complete run of Panic Shack dates under.

Panic Shack’s full 2025 UK and European tour dates are:

MAY
8 – The Fortress & Falcon – Birmingham
9 – FOCUS Wales – Wrexham
10 – The Wardrobe – Leeds
11 – Cluny – Newcastle
13 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow – SOLD OUT
14 – Yellow Arch Studios – Sheffield – SOLD OUT
15 – Arts Membership – Liverpool
16 – Band on the Wall – Manchester – SOLD OUT
18 – The Bullingdon – Oxford
19 – Papillon – Southampton
20 – Craufurd Arms – Milton Keynes
22 – Thekla – Bristol – SOLD OUT
23 – In It Collectively Pageant – Port Talbot
25 – Corn Change – Newport
28 – The Storage – London

JULY
10 – 2000 Bushes Pageant – Cheltenham
18 – Homestead Pageant – Portishead

OCTOBER
9 – The place Else – Margate
10 – Chalk – Brighton
11 – New Shiny Pageant – Cambridge
12 – SWX – Bristol
15 – Foundry – Sheffield
16 – Academy 2 – Manchester
17 – Storage – Glasgow
18 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham

NOVEMBER
19 – Trix Bar – Antwerp, BE
20 – Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
21 – Molotow – Hamburg, DE
22 – Yuca – Cologne, DE
24 – Lark – Berlin, DE
25 – Orange Home – Munich, DE
28 – Pageant Les Femmes S’en Mêlent – Paris, FR
30 – Wurlitzer – Madrid, ES

DECEMBER
1 – Add – Barcelona, ES
4 – Electrical Brixton – London
5 – Tramshed – Cardiff

We final spoke to Panic Shack again in 2023, the place the band spoke to us about accusations made on TikTok that they had been “cosplaying” their working-class background.

“I really feel just like the frequent denominator right here is that folks nonetheless present misogyny in direction of girls making quirky, different music,” stated bassist Emily Smith.

“Following the TikTok drama, there have been moments the place I used to be actually doubting every thing that we had been doing as a band,” vocalist Sarah Harvey stated, and guitarist Romi Lawrence informed us “It actually did put a seed of doubt in your thoughts. We’d by no means skilled hate like that earlier than as a result of we’re like an echo chamber. We converse to an alternate viewers, so the lots coming after us was fairly scary.

“We’re simply right here to have enjoyable!”