⭐️ 20th Anniversary Shows 🚩
GLASGOW 🎸 MANCHESTER 🍂 LONDON ::: October 2025
This October brings the 20th anniversary of With Love & Squalor, and with it the nagging temptation to celebrate. It was With Love & Squalor, after all, that turned music from a hobby to a funny job for us, and so this October — in a very real way — also marks 20 years of the band We Are Scientists.
We are not ones to shrink from temptation. Here’s what we’ve cooked up…
Three big shows — the biggest we’ve played in a long time — in the north, middle, and south of Britain. A sprawling, lengthy set, during which we’ll play every tune from the first album, plus a large selection of songs spanning the formidable nine-album catalog. We’ll wear nice clothes, use colorful guitars, get a lady who really knows how to work the lights… 🤩
This part is nice: we got Andy Burrows to support. Andy, for those who don’t know, recorded drums on Barbara and TV en Français, and toured with us periodically back in the 2009-2012 era. He’s one of the most talented musicians alive, and has been writing beautiful music for years, some of which he’ll play with his marvelous band at these three barn burners.
These shows go on sale Friday (25/7), with a pre-sale on Thursday. Anyone who has purchased our new record Qualifying Miles through the UK/EU web store by Wednesday (23/7) will have access to the pre-sale (this includes purchases that have already happened — look for an email with pre-sale details shortly).
These will be very good shows. We do hope you'll come.
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Saturday at the Roundhouse sounds fabulous! Hope to see you there. Any chance we might get those demon cats on a t-shirt? That would be very cool.
that artwork is very cool, very cat. would love to go to one of those, but of course living in the united states is a bit of an obstacle in this regards. but do hope that anyone that does go to one of (or two or three of) the three shows has as good of a time as that sounds.