New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Grammy and BRIT-nominated, platinum, diamond-selling British band Glass Animals announce details of their global headline tour for 2024. The news follows the announcement of their highly-anticipated fourth studio album I Love You So F***ing Much and release of the first single from the record, 'Creatures in Heaven.' Revealing 44 dates, the extensive tour will take the band across the US, Europe and England, kicking off in America this August and concluding in London's 20,000-capacity The O2 Arena on 7 November. Fans who pre-order the album will have access to early pre-sale tickets going live at 10am (Local Time) on 9 April. General on-sale will go live at 10am (Local Time) on 11 April.
I Love You So F***ing Much is to be released on 19 July 2024 on Polydor Records / Universal Music Canada. It is the follow-up to 2020's critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12M copies globally and gave life to 'Heat Waves', the record-breaking song that became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years. It was the first song to reach #1 with a single writer and producer since Pharell's 'Happy,' and led to the pop world's biggest acts, including Florence Welch, all wanting to work with Glass Animals frontman, songwriter and producer, Dave Bayley. But the birth of I Love You So F***ing Much was an existential crisis. Dave found himself struggling to make sense of this newfound global stardom, having watched it all happen while the world was in lockdown. "Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you aren't able to change as quickly on a personal level. You end up feeling like a spectator. And then you are asked and expected to be a certain type of person, a different person. But…I wasn't sure how. It confused me to the point of not knowing who I was or if anything was real." It took being stranded on a cliff in a wooden house on stilts during one of California's biggest storms in history to push that feeling into a full existential crisis. In forced isolation, watching trees tumble down mountains and assuming "death was coming," Dave began asking questions of himself, of the universe and of the human experience: namely, love. As he came to accept himself as an introvert, Dave realised that "human connection and the love between us is much bigger, more important, and more complex than anything else". Creatures in Heaven is the sublime first glimpse into 10 intimate love stories set against the backdrop of the universe.
GLASS ANIMALS 2024 GLOBAL TOUR DATES
7 August - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavillion
8 August - Alpharetta GA, - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
10 August - Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for the Performing Arts, TD Pavillion
11 August - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
13 August - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
16 August - Raleigh, NC - Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
17 August - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavillion
20 August - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
21 August - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center 23 August - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center
24 August - Clarkson, MI - Pine Know Music Center
25 August - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
27 August - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone, Arena
28 August - Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavillion at Northerly Island
31 August - Bonner Springs, KS - Azura Amphitheater
3 September - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
4 September - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
5 September - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
7 September - Quincy, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre
8 September - Vancouver, BC - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
11 September - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
13 September - Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
14 September - Inglewood, CA - Kia Forum
17 September - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
20 September - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavillion
21 September - The Woodlands, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion
22 September - Austin, TX - Moody Center
15 October - Paris - Zenith
16 October - Brussels - Forest National
17 October - Düsseldorf - Mitsubishi Electric Halle
19 October - Warsaw - Expo XXI
20 October - Berlin - Max Schmeling Halle
22 October - Milan - Alcatraz
23 October - Zurich - The Hall
24 October - Munich, Zenith
26 October - Amsterdam - AFAS Live
27 October - Amsterdam - AFAS Live
30 October - Dublin - 3Arena
1 November - Glasgow - OVO Hydro
2 November - Manchester - Co-Op Live
3 November - Nottingham - Motorpoint Arena
5 November - Cardiff - Utilita Arena
7 November - London - The O2 Arena
Wanting to bring fans into the sci-fi-inspired world of I Love You So F***ing Much early, Glass Animals set up a landing page that simply read "Panic. Answer the Question please" (a nod to Douglas Adams' infamous Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy). With 15,000 questions posed to the band within the first couple of days, they set about trawling through them: What's going on (existentially)? Will Glass Animals perform in Space? Are we hitchhiking the universe? What is the meaning of life? To Dave, it's a continuation of the Open Source website the band started in the pandemic. A site where fans could download jpegs and mp3s from the band, share them and create their own artwork and tunes. Engaging with each other and Glass Animals in a deeper way, this modernist iteration of "Ask Me Anything" sparked a conversation around the power of love in a-what-can-sometimes-feel-like-a cold and loveless world.
In the build-up to the album's announcement cryptic flyposters, graffiti and billboards of the album's title have been popping up globally since Valentine's Day, with the band officially revealing the first visual taste of the album, the cosmic zoom, on socials earlier this month. Last week Dave began sharing "Desperately Seeking Dave" ads in local newspapers, prompting fans to find him for an exclusive play of the single before its release across London, NYC and Kansas City. Glass Animals have also announced intimate pop-up shows for this Spring, selling out instantly, they'll be taking place in California (at the legendary Pappy + Harriet's in The Mojave Desert) and Mexico City. More shows are due to be announced soon.
Live Pop-Ups
11 April - Pappy + Harriet's, CA, USA
15 April - Mexico City
Having a bird's-eye view of life is a view that Glass Animals have become comfortable with. Dreamland was released during the pandemic in 2020, and it was the album that elevated Glass Animals to mythical status. The single Heat Waves broke records across the planet, becoming the first song by a British band since the Spice Girls' Wannabe in 1995, to claim #1 for 5 consecutive weeks in the Billboard 100. Having achieved Grammy and BRIT nominations, being crowned Triple J's Hottest 100 winner, claiming over 44B global streams and becoming the first British band to achieve #1 in the Spotify global chart, whilst holding space in the Billboard Hot 100 for longer than the Weekends Blinding Lights. But the backdrop of this critical success was a band locked in their separate homes; a form of "detachment".
Glass Animals toured the album when the world was just emerging from the pandemic. There was still so much unknown, and artists couldn't get insurance for tours. "It was survival mode. We had to frontload the tour. We had no insurance on the shows. We just had to make them happen and be very careful. My manager and I wrote a manual that other artists ended up using at venues. Dreamland became the dream. We were basically jumping on stage, doing the show, then back in this silent metal tube [the bus]. It was quite odd. We were like, is this real?". The four-piece; Dave, Drew MacFarlane (guitar, keys), Edmund Irwin-Singer (bass, keys) and Joe Seaward (drums) who all met at school, saw huge flashes of how far their music had come - from crowds outside buses to post-show street parties after the show spilling out of the New York subway - but all from the confines of the metal tube. This detachment was heightened when the band made it to the Grammys, only to be stopped before the event by Dave getting Covid. They had come so close to the tangible but were still so far away from it. Having sold well over 340K tickets globally, Glass Animals commenced their UK tour, headlining Alexandra Palace in a triumphant show to mark the end of 2021, and the end of a rollercoaster time that changed their lives forever. Finding sense in that chaos is where I Love You So F***ing Much begins. Join the love space odyssey today.
I Love You So F***cking Much tracklisting:
1. Show Pony
2. whatthehellishappening
3. Creatures in Heaven
4. Wonderful Nothing
5. A Tear in Space (Airlock)
6. ICMYFILA
7. How I Learned To Love The Bomb
8. White Roses
9. On the Run
10. Lost in the Ocean
