Tix On Sale Today for 20th Anniversary Shows 💫
Glasgow, Manchester, London … 🪩ctober 15-18, 2025
Squid-squad,
It’s been a week of intoxicating bacchanalia as we’ve welcomed Qualifying Miles into the world, often with two shows in a day, which is like eating two hamburgers in a day — delicious, yes, but it will wear you down. Today’s time off in Winchester will be spent soaking in bathtubs, slurping brothy foods, and, okay, sure, sipping a few salutary pints around an oaken table.
But major international arts corporations like We Are Scientists do not take days off, and so I interrupt my bubble bath to bring you this actually very exciting news: tickets are on sale today for the “20 Years of W.A.S.” shows we’ve lined up in October. These are the largest shows we’ve put on in quite a while, and we’re planning not just to “do it right,” but also to “go big.” Among the amazements we have planned, one has already been revealed: our great friend, erstwhile drummer, and British Rock God Andy Burrows will open these performances, bringing an air of royalty and a respectable accent to what may at times become a rather dissolute evening.
Besides playing all of With Love & Squalor at these events, we will be attempting an era-spanning, all-encompassing, everyone-pleasing playlist of songs from across the rest of our intimidating catalog. (We will likely try to survey this devout readership for help in assembling this list — still working out the mechanics of how to do that.) During this past week, we met many adult fans who first saw us when they were but children — some of them now with kids of their own in tow, in many cases the wee ones attending their first gigs. We know, in short, that for many of you we are Bruce Springsteen. We are The Rolling Stones. We are Nirvana, The Grateful Dead, Brad Pitt, and Picasso all rolled up into one. We understand this. We take the responsibility seriously.
These will be very good shows.
Now back to my bath.
Kidding, of course. I’m writing this from the bath, on my floating laptop. Floating, waterproof laptops have become an essential accessory for influencers — Hewlett-Packard gifted us one last week when we visited the set of Love Island on Mallorca. I have it today, and honestly I’m not sure I can ever go back to a hydrophobic laptop 💅.
With love and squalor from this son and father…
… and us, Chris & Keith.
It's insane that I still get enjoyment out of a tour that I can't go to, in the form of that tour announcement being hilarious and engaging. I love this band.
Also you might just want to make a Google form with song names and a checkmark style voting system. When it shows you results it'll show it in piechart and percentage form.
There might be a better way but this is the one I know to be one.
Winchester eh? If you’re in the mood for an extremely theatrical over the top cocktail you should head to Incognito! But only if you like drinks served in a hot air balloon or glass turtle.