Dork’s Hype List tour headliners Welly have announced their debut album ‘Big In The Suburbs’ for March 2025

Welly have announced their debut album ‘Big In The Suburbs’.

News of the record, set for release on 21st March 2025, arrives alongside its title-track and accompanying video, which sees Welly playing a disinterested talent show judge.

The Southampton-born artist describes the new track as “Suburban surf-rock. (Feeding-the-ducks-indie?),” explaining: “This is the market stall for the album, the contents page, the intro sequence, the theme song. Think the intro to ‘Thomas The Tank Engine’, we meet our motley crew in each verse – the neighbours, the foul families, the love interests, the ugly pets.”

“I wrote this in hospital after a seizure. The doctors don’t really know why. But in between tests, in the waiting room of East Sussex General A and E, this chorus floated out. Maybe some divine intervention. Maybe too much white wine. Live, Laugh, Love, Death’.”

The self-produced album follows a series of singles including ‘Shopping’, ‘Soak Up The Culture’, ‘Deere John’, and ‘Cul-De-Sac’, and will see them headlining Dork’s Hype List tour in February 2025.

Of the wider record, Welly shares: “I could say something very clever about suburban tableuxs, provincial minuets, the motifs of traffic, dead end roads, big fish in small ponds, but that would be silly. This is the child’s-first-painting going on the fridge. I’m very proud of this. It’s fun, and music hasn’t been fun for a long time, especially British music. This is a lob in the right direction. It took 6 years to write and 6 weeks to record, the band and I did it all ourselves at my Dad’s house in Scotland. It’s DIY, and not out of choice, but out of budget. Charity shop instruments, solid gold mentalities.”

Sports Team support:

NOVEMBER
14 Club Academy, Manchester
15 The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham
16 Arts Club, Liverpool
19 SWG3, Glasgow

Headline:

NOVEMBER
20 Arts Club (Loft), Liverpool
21 Bask, Stockport
22 The Ferret, Preston
23 Play Brew Tap Room, Middlesbrough
26 Club 601, St Andrews
27 Bakers Nite Club, Kilmarnock
28 The Brickyard, Carlisle
29 Albert Shed, Shrewsbury
30 Parish Dive Bar, Huddersfield

DECEMBER
4 Moth Club, London

Dork Hype List Tour:

FEBRUARY 2025
1 Louisiana, Bristol
6 Oporto, Leeds
7 Grove, Newcastle
8 The Deaf Institute, Manchester
9 McChullis, Glasgow
13 Heartbreakers, Southampton
15 Bodega, Nottingham