The Wombats announce summer gig at Belfast's Telegraph Building

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Author: Emma DicksonPublished 23rd Feb 2022

One of the UK’s most popular indie rock acts, The Wombats are pleased to announce a headline Belfast show at The Telegraph Building on Sunday 21st August 2022.

Fresh from the release of their fifth studio album, ‘'Fix Yourself, Not The World' and with their biggest ever UK headline tour set for 2022, including a landmark show at London’s The O2, this year is going to be huge for the three-piece.

The viral success of Oliver Nelson’s remix of their 2015 hit ‘Greek Tragedy’ on TikTok has enraptured a whole new generation of fans.

Used in over 600,000 videos (some of which have over 100 million views), the remix has rocketed to over 30 million streams, propelling the original to 120 million streams and sending it Gold in the US.

It’s helped the band surpass 1.5 billion worldwide streams, amassing an extra 2.4 million monthly listeners on Spotify since just January. This illustrates the timeless power of their songwriting and lyrics alone.

The band have been working hard to produce some of the most captivating, inventive and forward-thinking music of their career to date. With Murph in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo and drummer Dan Haggis in London, they discussed each day’s plan via Zoom, then recorded separately, sending individual files to producers

Tickets go on sale Friday 25th Feb at 9am from ticketmaster.ie

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