When: 7pm on Friday 4 October 2024
Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB

We’re excited to welcome Will Varley back to Manchester – this time, for an intimate show in YES Pink Room!

English singer-songwriter Will Varley returns this summer with new single Waiting For Venus, his first new music since 2021’s The Hole Around My Head, released directly to fans through his mailing list as well as the exclusive pre-order for his seventh album, Long Way Back To Now, to be released in early 2025 via MNRK Music Group – home to the likes of The Lumineers, Mt. Joy and Gregory Alan Isakov.

To celebrate, Will has announced three intimate shows in London, Manchester and Berlin with tickets available from Wednesday 4 September through his mailing list and general sale on Friday 6 September.

Inspired by his natural habitats of the US Midwest and the coastal plains of East Kent, these songs are rich, lyrical tales that speak of hard touring, relationships on the rocks and the rebuilding of minds. Featuring some very special guest appearances, the album continues Varley’s decade long exploration of the human condition, this time focusing on society’s ever-present threat of impending apocalypse, how we marry this with the mundane and the minutiae of our everyday lives and how we can find hope.

Produced at his ramshackle studio deep in the Kent swamps, alongside long-time friend and collaborator Tom Farrer, the album’s pallet marks a significant change in musicality, bringing a rich and luscious production to many of the songs and bringing Varley’s lyrical landscapes to life in full colour.

‘I wrote these songs in empty dive bars and hospital waiting rooms. I wrote them while sitting in maternity wards, hotel lobbies, motorway service stations and broken down tour buses in the dead of night.

‘This is an album about trying to be a hundred different people at the same time. About the fires you remember when you are alone in the early hours. About the dreams you had once and never thought you’d forget. About trying to raise children while the world is ending outside. About end times and new beginnings.

‘This is an album about hope, desperation and survival. Love and dependency. The things we do not know, the lives we do not live, and trying to find peace in whatever is left.’

Special guest is Alice Gold. Following on from her critically acclaimed album Seven Rainbows and with only a handful of shows this year, songwriter Alice Gold showcases new material for her soon-to-be-recorded album. Expect soulful, psychedelic pop with venom flecked vocals, pensive blues and off-kilter darkness.

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