WELLY have announced Big In The Suburbs, the debut album, due for release on 21 March 2025. The
record launches alongside the new single and title track Big In The Suburbs and yet another inspired
video featuring Welly as a suitably disinterested talent show judge. He whiles away the hours watching
a swathe of wannabees do their mediocre thing. What better introduction to, by indie rights, should be
deemed the debut album of 2025.
“Big In The Suburbs is suburban surf-rock (feeding-the-ducks-indie?) Welly proclaims. “This is the
market stall for the album, the contents page, the intro sequence, the theme song. Think the intro to
‘Thomas The Tank Engine’. We meet our motley crew in each verse – the neighbours, the foul families,
the love interests, the ugly pets.
“I wrote this in hospital after a seizure. The doctors don’t really know why. But in between tests. In the
waiting room of East Sussex General A&E, this chorus floated out. Maybe some divine intervention?
Maybe too much white wine? Live, Laugh, Love, Death.”
BIG IN THE SUBURBS | TRACK LIST
Big In The Suburbs
Home For The Weekend
Knock And Run
Deere John
Soak Up The Culture
Shopping
Cul-De-Sac
Pampas Grass
The Roundabout Racehorse
Under Milk Wood
Family Photos
Country Cousins
It’s Not Like This In France
Life Is A Motorway
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.”
Reporting for duty as the next great British band, Welly recently wrapped up the 14-date Southern leg
of The National Service Tour with the Northern leg kicking off soon with a last hurrah headline show at
London Moth Club following on 4 December. Welly and the gang are currently out on the road with
Sports Team for a selection of dates across the country and have just been announced as headliners on
the Dork Hype List Tour in 2025. Great times are coming.
NOVEMBER
Thu 14 MANCHESTER Club Academy (with Sports Team)
Fri 15 BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon (with Sports Team)
Sat 16 LIVERPOOL Arts Club (with Sports Team)
Tue 19 GLASGOW SWG3 (with Sports Team)
Wed 20 LIVERPOOL Arts Club Loft
Thu 21 STOCKPORT Bask
Fri 22 PRESTON The Ferret
Sat 23 MIDDLESBROUGH Play Brew Tap Room
Tue 26 ST ANDREWS Club 601
Wed 27 KILMARNOCK Bakers Nite Club
Thu 28 CARLISLE Brickyard
Fri 29 SHREWSBURY Albert’s Shed
Sat 30 HUDDERSFIELD Parish Dive Bar
DECEMBER
Wed 04 LONDON Moth Club
FEBRUARY (DORK HYPE LIST TOUR 2025)
Sat 01 BRISTOL Louisiana
Thu 06 LEEDS Oporto
Fri 07 NEWCASTLE Grove
Sat 08 MANCHESTER Deaf Institute
Sun 09 GLASGOW McChuills
Thu 13 SOUTHAMPTON Heartbreakers
Sat 15 NOTTINGHAM Bodega