Photo Credit Rachel Murdy
WHEATUS
ANNOUNCE AUTUMN 2023 UK & IRISH TOUR
NEW YORK’S ORIGINAL ‘TEENAGE DIRTBAGS’ SET TO PLAY FIRST UK & IRISH LIVE SHOWS IN OVER FOUR YEARS
+ SPECIAL EXPANDED 20-TRACK EDITION OF BAND’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘WHEATUS’ WILL BE RELEASED ON 1st DECEMBER 2023
It’s hard to believe it’s now well over 20 years since Wheatus released their million-selling eponymously titled debut album and still ubiquitous single “Teenage Dirtbag”. Yes, that’s right – “Dirtbag” is no longer a teenager. In honour of this milestone, Wheatus will release a new specially expanded 20-track edition of their now classic debut long-player ‘Wheatus’ on 1st December 2023.
And to further celebrate the debut album’s imminent expanded release, the much-loved New York act are thrilled to today announce an extensive new UK & Irish headline tour for autumn 2023. Pandemics notwithstanding, the six-piece have kept busy these past few years with a seemingly endless run of shows across the globe, but this new autumn 2023 run of dates will be Wheatus’ first gigs on our shores in more than four years.
Commenting on today’s tour announcement, Wheatus frontman Brendan B Brown says, “We toured the UK, Ireland and Europe eighteen years in a row from 2001-2019, some years more than once. The pandemic has paused that tradition since 2020. This opportunity to return is more precious to us than all the other years combined and we’re gonna throw the kitchen sink at it”.
Tickets for the following UK & Irish live shows go on-sale Thursday 6th April at 10:00am via https://wheatus.com/shows
15 September Manchester Gorilla
16 September Mexborough Imperial Music Venue
17 September Leeds Brudenell Social Club
18 September York – The Crescent
19 September Nottingham Rescue Rooms
21 September Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill
22 September Blackpool – The Waterloo Music Bar
23 September Newcastle – The Grove
26 September Tarbert Village Hall
27 September Glasgow King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
28 September Dunfermline PJ Molloys
29 September Buckley – The Tivoli Venue
30 September Hull – The Welly
1 October Leicester – The Soundhouse
3 October Bridgwater – The Palace Theatre
4 October Cardiff – The Globe
6 October Liskeard After Hours SW
7 October Perranporth – The Watering Hole
10 October Milton Keynes – The Craufurd Arms
11 October Gloucester Guildhall
12 October Grimsby Docks Academy
13 October Stoke On Trent – The Sugarmill
14 October Hertford Corn Exchange
15 October Bristol Thekla
17 October Margate Olby’s Creative Hub
18 October Southend Chinnery’s
19 October Worthing – The Factory Live
20 October London – The Garage
21 October Guildford – The Boileroom
22 October Swansea – The Bunkhouse
24 October Belfast Limelight 2
29 October Dublin Whelan’s
The brilliant promo video for “Teenage Dirtbag,” featuring clips of Mena Suvari & Jason Biggs from the 2000 teen rom-com movie ‘Loser’, is fast closing in on an incredible 250million views.
Watch the “Teenage Dirtbag” video HERE
The fiercely independent New York act has now released six studio albums and two live albums across their career. Talking of the new 20-track expanded version of debut album ‘Wheatus’, Brendan B Brown says, “We found demos of ten more songs from throughout the band’s history that had such an album-one vibe that they never made it onto our more recent records. So now we’re giving them a proper chance to be heard. The new twenty-song expanded version of the album will feature the originally conceived tracklisting and sequence, plus the extra ten songs that have finally found a home on a record.”
The past twelve months have seen Wheatus explode back into the mainstream with the “Teenage Dirtbag photos” TikTok trend going hugely viral across social media, with more than TWO BILLION views in less than a month. The song has been shared and celebrated recently by Lil Nas X, Madonna, Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, Chevy Chase, Jon Bon Jovi, Victoria Beckham, Alice Cooper, Millie Bobby Brown, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brooke Shields, Mark Ruffalo, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Heidi Klum, Mark Ronson, LL Cool J, Tony Hawk, Sammy Hagar, Nick Kroll, Lupita Nyong’o, Machine Gun Kelly, Anderson Paak, Jessica Alba, Mick Fleetwood, Sheryl Crow, Chris Pratt and Jamie Lee Curtis, amongst countless others all pushing the hashtag #teenagedirtbag
As the band rightly conclude, “Teenage years may be fleeting, but it seems ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ is for life!”
Wheatus are;
Brendan B Brown / Guitar & Vocals
Matthew Milligan / Bass
Brandon Ticer / Keyboards
KC Marotta / Drums
Joey Slater / Backing Vocals
Gabrielle Sterbenz / Backing Vocals
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