I’ll be returning to Yorkshire next week for a very nature-themed gig in Sheffield on Thursday 21 May!
My band wormboys will be playing alongside Shrub at Alder – so if nothing else, you’ll leave the event very well-fertilised.
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Gig: inclusive football fundraiser in Leeds!
Next Friday I’ll be popping down to Leeds to play this amazing gig in The Attic with wormboys.
In the wake of the Football Association effectively banning trans women from playing even at an amateur level, it’s been heartening to see a lot of serious community organising happening around inclusive football. A lot of this has been led by women who have already been frustrated for years with the institutional sexism of the FA, and their effective control over many local pitches.
This gig will be raising money for those fighting back against a corporate, exclusionary approach to football, and working to build something much better in its place.
Plus, it’s a stonking line-up. If you’re local, come and see us all play!
wormboys gigs: Greenbelt Festival + fundraiser in Leeds
We have a couple of very exciting events coming up for wormboys in a couple of weeks!
First, on Wednesday 20th August we will be playing a fundraiser gig at Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds. Themed around the film I Saw The TV Glow (which promises to be…weird) the event has been organised in support of The Hangout, a super awesome LGBTQIA youth project. We’ll be sharing a stage with oli reeves and Leeds Queers Against Fascism.
The TV is Still Glowing – Get your tickets here!
£8 waged / £4 unwaged + fees.
Secondly, for the weekend of 22-24 August we will be whizzing down to the countryside near Kettering for Greenbelt Festival! This will be my second time performing at Greenbelt, as I gave a talk about trans feminism in 2023. The whole event had thoroughly excellent vibes, especially the Rebel Rouser stage in the woods. I’m excited to be returning there with wormboys this time around for a full set of live music – including lots of material written for our forthcoming debut album. I can’t wait for us to share it!
Greenbelt Festival – Get your tickets here!
Adult tickets £110 – £300: pay what you can.
Leeds gig! Wednesday 2nd April
Reminder that I am playing Wharf Chambers in Leeds as part of wormboys on Wednesday. We have written a lot of new material recently, and are excited to share it with a live audience. We’ll be supported by Tiger Island and Etheriel, with live visuals from Kit Watson, so it’s going to be a great night.
More information plus a ticket link can be found here.
Upcoming gigs in London and Leeds
New year, new gigs! We have two headline shows coming up for wormboys. Come and see us if you can!
Thursday 23rd January
The Cavendish Arms, London
With the legendary Schande, plus exciting new supergroup Tomboy Grandpa.
£9 advance.
Tickets available here!
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Wednesday 2nd April
Wharf Chambers, Leeds
With Tiger Island and Etheriel, plus live projections from Kit Watson.
£6 advance, £8 on the door, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Tickets available here!
wormboys 2024 summer tour dates
I’m taking a much-needed break from *gestures wildly* many things in coming weeks, to spend some creative time with my friends in wormboys.
We’ll be playing several super cool gigs in England – you can catch us in Northampton, Oxford, Bradford, York, and Newcastle! We have a lot of new material to share, plus songs from our 2023 EP smalltime and our most recent single, mostly still.
Tickets for all our shows are (or will be) available through our Linktree.
wormboys song featured in Leeds Queer Film Festival trailer
I’m hugely honoured that my band’s song “mostly still” has been used in the trailer for Leeds Queer Film Festival this year!
Leeds Queer Film Festival is an amazing, affordable, non-profit community event, which every year shows feature-length films and shorts from around the world. I cannot recommend it enough!
This year’s event runs from 20-24 March, and you can find all the information you might need on their website.
wormboys tour – October 2023
We’re hitting the road again in late October, accompanied on all dates by the lovely Alexx Munro! You can get your advance tickets here:
20 October – Legends, Edinburgh
(with Fistymuffs)
21 October – Ushi’s, Glasgow
(support TBC)
22 October – Little Buildings, Newcastle
(with Fashion Tips)
29 October – secret location, Leeds
(with R.AGGS)
New wormboys single: “mostly still”
We put out a wormboys single last week! “mostly still” has been released in digital form by Come Play With Me Records. It’s the first new song we worked on together after I joined the band in 2019, so I’m very excited we’re sharing this recording with the world.
Here are some nice things people have said:
“A light-hearted, endearing grunge-pop tune … the Leeds four piece deliver their self described ‘queer moody creepy noise-pop’ with joyful flair on this new offering” – Get In Her Ears
“The track finds Wormboys at perhaps their most melodic, recalling the likes of Lomelda or Boy Scouts as wiry guitars meet crashing drums and clipped, lilting vocals. Lyrically, this song isn’t one of sweeping melodramas, more the tiny moments that make our skin crawl or our hearts leap, as they sing “you dance next to me, and I’ll stand mostly still”, before being engulfed in a swell of guitars. Noisy and sweet, dreamy and driving, Wormboys are a contradiction in all the best ways and a band more than ready to make their mark.” – For The Rabbits
You can listen to the song for free on our Bandcamp page, and it’s also available on streaming platforms such as Spotify.
30 April: wormboys at the Brude, Leeds
Is this the music you like?
My band wormboys are joining The Bug Club and a whole host of others for this lovely alldayer at the Brudenell Social Club on Sunday 30th April.
It’s likely to sell out, so for a good time get your tickets now!
Dr Ruth Pearce 