WELLY
THE SEASIDE TOUR // MARCH & APRIL
BIG IN THE SUBURBS LP // 21 MARCH 2025
“Meet one of the UK’s wittiest new songwriters … a Where’s Wally of suburban England” NME
“One of the most exciting new acts in ages … equal parts nostalgia and social commentary” DORK
“It’s a whole lot of fun whilst meticulous musicality lies beneath the maverick mentality” WONDERLAND
“Satirical, sometimes scathing Southampton newcomers” STEVE LAMACQ | BBC 6 MUSIC
“A bubbly dose of acerbic pop that leaves a real impact” CLASH
“Truly unique, combining art-pop and electro-chaos” DIY
THE ROUNDABOUT RACEHORSE VIDEO: Watch HERE
PRE-ORDER BIG IN THE SUBURBS LP: Pre-order HERE
Following their recent headline stint on the sold out Dork Hype List tour, WELLY have announced their Seaside Tour for April and May across the UK. The tour comes after the release of their recent single, The Roundabout Racehorse, their forthcoming debut album Big In The Suburbs to be released on 21 March, and two album launch instores in Brighton and London. Full dates as follows:
MARCH
Fri 21 BRIGHTON Resident Records Instore
Sun 23 LONDON Rough Trade East Instore
APRIL
Tue 08 FALMOUTH Cornish Bank
Wed 9 PLYMOUTH Junction
Thu 10 WESTON SUPER MARE Loves Café
Tue 15 SWANSEA Bunkhouse
Wed 16 ISLE OF WIGHT Strings Bar and Venue
Thu 17 BOURNEMOUTH Bear Cave
Fri 18 WORTHING Charles Dickens
Tue 22 BLACKPOOL Bootleg Social
Wed 23 DUNDEE Beat Generator
Thu 24 NORTH SHIELDS Three Tanners Bank
Fri 25 HARTLEPOOL Studio
Sat 26 HULL The Welly
MAY
Thu 01 RAMSGATE Music Hall
Ticket: https://welly.os.fan/
The Big In The Suburbs album centres on the monochrome mundanity but also the unsung beauty of the suburbs; a collection of picture-perfect, alt-pop vignettes in which regular lives are often quietly on the brink of going berserk. For his debut album – all written and self-produced by Welly himself – this rich tableau of British life is celebrated for all its triumphs and tragedies. Here are songs about wanting more than you have, about a world in flux, about doomed romance and figuring out how to be happy where everybody knows your name (and your Mum’s).
Welly has been building his creative province with a series of releases in the run up to the album. First single Shopping pays tribute to the dying UK high street and today’s grass-is-greener mentality, setting out the group’s blueprint for pop on a budget. Soak Up The Culture meanwhile sends up and adds to the canon of the lads-on-tour anthem, with lawnmower-themed love triangle Deere John connecting a story arc with Cul-De-Sac which documents the stasis of two people at a romantic dead-end road.
The title track, Big In The Suburbs, is described by Welly as “suburban surf-rock; feeding-the-ducks-indie” while the recently released The Roundabout Racehorse encapsulates the strangeness of returning home, being surrounded by people who never left and consequently not quite being able to properly escape who you are or how people perceive you.
Welly’s own suburban story has quickly become the stuff of urban myth. The group’s front man, songwriter and producer was born in Southampton, showing an early fascination for other people and how they live their lives through the writings of John Betjeman and Alan Bennett. As a child Welly was obsessed by the same six songs on the iPod Shuffle his Dad clipped to his school trousers every day and that was quite enough. But when his Dad sat him down to watch the video to Common People in 2014 an obsession with music was born.
Welly’s tales of the extraordinary and the most ordinary lives began between jobs ranging from a paper round to Poundland and Peppa Pig World – and that’s just the Ps – and they now find themselves rallying an energetic audience around the UK likewise in search of something different and something fun, with Big In The Suburbs creating a small-town big-dreams world of its own.
Regarding the album, Welly says: “I could say something very clever about suburban tableaus, provincial minuets, the motifs of traffic, dead end roads and big fish in small ponds, but that would be silly. This is the child’s first painting going on the fridge. I’m very proud of this. It’s fun, and music hasn’t been fun for a long time, especially British music. This is a lob in the right direction. It took 6 years to write and 6 weeks to record. The band and I did it all ourselves at my Dad’s house in Scotland. It’s DIY and not out of choice, but out of budget. Charity shop instruments, solid gold mentalities.”
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