Poetic ‘voice of a generation’ four-piece announce huge open-air celebration with 8,000 fans in Manchester for Friday 30 June 2023

Announcement arrives shortly before the release of new album, From Nothing To A Little Bit More out on Island Records on Fri 3 March 2023

The Lathums – Live at Castlefield Bowl
Tickets On sale now
Album pre-orders and bundles: www.thelathums.com
The Lathums have announced their biggest headline show to date, performing at the iconic, open-air Castlefield Bowl in Manchester on Fri 30 June 2023. Tickets for the landmark show go on sale at 9.30am on Fri 3 February 2023.

The Wigan four-piece return to Manchester’s 8,000 capacity amphitheatre as headliners just two years after appearing as very special guests for Snow Patrol. Performing just a week before their debut album sky-rocketed to the UK Number One, The Lathums used their first appearance at the city centre arena to premiere intense fan favourite, and the first track to be released from their upcoming, second album, Sad Face Baby – as captured in fan videos.

This news arrives on the heels of the band’s most recent single Struggle, the honest and full-hearted opening track from forthcoming album, From Nothing To A Little Bit More, released on Fri 3 March 2023 via Island Records. The follow up to their hugely successful, 2021 debut album How Beautiful Life Can Be comes loaded with, in the words of humbly gifted frontman Alex Moore himself, more of the ‘sad and strange’ that arrived cloaked in upbeat jangle pop and festival-sized choruses first time around.

Negotiating their swift ascent from small venues and pubs to headlining prestigious venues including Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse and Blackpool Empress Ballroom, The Lathums’ Castlefield Bowl date will be seen as a natural progression for fans that have witnessed their ascent to an event-making band. Last year saw the band also take to UK and European arena stages in support of The Killers and Kasabian as well as heading out on their debut headline US Tour.

It was only in December the band announced that they’d also return briefly to their roots with a run of special, extremely intimate live pub dates, starting in Glasgow on Mon 6 February. All upcoming live dates for the band, including the previously announced Spring 2023 Tour dates are as follows:
Mon 6 Feb – Glasgow, McChuills
Tue 7 Feb- Middlesbrough, Hit The Bar
Thu 9 Feb- Wigan, Fat Bird
Fri 10 Feb – Hull, Polar Bear
Sat 11 Feb- London, The Lexington
Mon 6 Mar – Liverpool, Mountford Hall, Liverpool University – SOLD OUT
Tue 7 Mar – Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria Students Union
Thu 9 Mar – Sheffield, O2 Academy Sheffield – SOLD OUT
Fri 10 Mar – Glasgow, O2 Academy Glasgow – SOLD OUT
Sat 11 Mar – Manchester, Albert Hall – SOLD OUT
Mon 13 Mar – Norwich, The Waterfront – SOLD OUT
Tue 14 Mar – Cardiff, Cardiff University, Great Hall
Thu 16 Mar – Nottingham, Rock City
Fri 17 Mar – Birmingham, O2 Institute Birmingham – SOLD OUT
Sat 18 Mar – London, Roundhouse
Fri 30 Jun – Manchester, Castlefield Bowl

Having disappeared into the studio during 2021 with producer, Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bombay Bicycle Club), The Lathums, including multi-instrumentalist, Scott Concepcion and drummer Ryan Durrans, made the conscious decision to put into practice much of what they’d learned in an alien music business they’d quickly been forced into making their home. The results heard by their waiting public to date have included the soaring and visceral Sad Face Baby, the darkly euphoric Say My Name and piano-led, heartbreaker, Turmoil.

Their more mature, brutally honest second album will be released in a range of formats, including standard black vinyl, limited fan-only coloured variants and a double-vinyl package including six, exclusive acoustic tracks recorded at Abbey Road, plus CD, cassette and digital packages. In direct collaboration with Moore and the band, Wigan-born and raised designer of Oasis, Verve and Super Furry Animals iconic album covers, Brian Cannon of Microdot, supplied the album’s striking artwork.

For up-to-date information on all upcoming The Lathums live dates and future releases, connect with the band online at:

https://www.thelathums.com