The Wombats announce headline show at Newcastle Times Square on Friday 24th July 2026
The Wombats announce mammoth headline show at Newcastle Times Square, taking place on Friday
24th July 2026.
Fresh from headlining the city’s Utilita Arena last weekend (5th December), the indie heavyweights
announce their return to the city for their biggest outdoor gig in the North East to date, with support
coming from the thrilling Red Rum Club and Cherryholt.
Primed to showcase the extended version of their sixth studio album, Oh! The Ocean (out via AWAL
Recordings on 5th December), last summer saw the trio bring the record to life on some of the biggest
festival stages, delivering standout performances at NOS Alive, Boardmasters (watch here), and Y Not
Festival, as well as On The Waterfront – the band’s biggest outdoor headline show to date in their
hometown of Liverpool.
Since they emerged as leading lights of the late-‘00s indie rock scene with 2007 debut A Guide to Love,
Loss & Desperation, Murph, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis have maintained
an incredible upward momentum. 2011’s electro-flecked second album This Modern Glitch made
them Top Ten regulars; 2015’s third Glitterbug saw them embraced by the TikTok generation, with
‘Greek Tragedy’ a viral hit several times over. By 2018’s Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life they’d
stepped up to arenas and 2022’s Fix Yourself, Not the World consolidated their unstoppable rise with
the band’s first Number One album, seeing them reach over 2.5 billion streams. Headline shows at
Crystal Palace and The O2 followed amid the band’s biggest touring cycle so far, taking in arenas across
the globe and culminating at Reading 2024, where the band headlined a rammed Radio 1 tent
overspilling with crowds of 18-24-year-olds that remain their core audience twenty years into their
career.
Speaking ahead of the Times Square announcement, promoters Joe Gill, Caitlin Maddison and Chris
Brearley from Liift Live stated: “After delivering a number of great events at Times Square in recent
years such as Scouting For Girls, The Enemy and Pale Waves, we are absolutely thrilled to be returning
in 2026 and bringing The Wombats back to the city. Roll on next summer!”
Tickets for The Wombats in Newcastle are on-sale now and available here (priced at £45.00 + £5.62
booking fee).