Circa Waves: Last News

The Wombats have been announced as the final headliner for Sheffield’s Rock N Roll Circus 2025. Check out the details below.This year’s edition of the festival is set to take place at the end of August, and will see performances from headliners including Queens Of The Stone Age, Reverend & The Makers, and James.Now, the final headliner has been shared, with The Wombats being confirmed to take to the stage on Friday August 29.

Sex Pistols, Guns N’ Roses, Biffy Clyro, Kneecap, Avenged Sevenfold and more have been announced as performers for this year’s edition of Rock for People.Rock For People 2025 is scheduled to take place between June 11 and 14 next year at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, Czechia. The newly announced performers join the previously revealed headliners Linkin Park and Slipknot as well as the likes of Fontaines D.C., IDLES, Poppy, Spiritbox, Skillet, In Flames, Motionless In White, Deafheaven, House of Protection and more.In celebration of the festival’s 30th anniversary, Guns N’ Roses are set to close out the weekend with a massive extra day on Sunday (June 15).

Circa Waves have released a propulsive new single titled ‘Like You Did Before’ – inspired by frontman Kieran Shudall’s experience undergoing a heart operation that involved imagining himself in “packed sweaty indie clubs”.The indie rock band issued the track on Monday (December 9) with a music video, featuring its members tracking music in the studio – it follows up September’s ‘We Made It’. Both tracks will be included in the band’s upcoming sixth album ‘Death & Love, Part 1’, due January 31, 2025 via Lower Third.In a press statement, Shudall spoke about the song, which he called “a reminder of a moment in my life that many people don’t know about”.“Just before my heart operation lying in hospital when life felt uncertain and fragile, I would imagine myself in a packed sweaty indie club, dancing like my life depended on it,” he continued.“It was a daydream, a form of escape and this song fits perfectly into that vision.” Watch the music video for ‘Like You Did Before’ below.Circa Waves were forced to cancel several shows in January 2023 when Shuddall was urgently admitted to hospital for surgery for viral pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart.

Circa Waves have shared new single ‘We Made It’ to announce their sixth album ‘Death & Love, Part 1’ – inspired by frontman Kieran Shuddall undergoing emergency heart surgery that saved his life. Check it out below along with our interview with the singer.The Liverpool indie stars were forced to cancel several shows in January 2023 when Shuddall was urgently admitted to hospital for surgery for viral pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart.

Circa Waves nearly missed their festival slot in Germany this weekend but were saved when The Prodigy unexpectedly came to their rescue.The ‘T-shirt Weather’ band were one of the many people impacted by the global IT outage that occurred when an update from cyber security firm Crowd Strike crashed over 8 million computers across the globe – including the devices used by airports around the world.Circa Waves are in the midst of their summer festival appearances and were set to perform at Germany’s Deichbrand Festival on Saturday (July 20). Due to the IT outage, the indie band were going to have to cancel their appearance at the bash until The Prodigy came to the rescue with their private jet.The English electronic group were also performing at Deichbrand Festival that night as headliners.

Circa Waves have announced their fifth studio album ‘Never Going Under’ – listen to new single ‘Do You Wanna Talk’ below.The Liverpool band are due to release the 11-track record – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Sad Happy’ – on January 13, 2023 via Lower Third/ PIAS. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.‘Never Going Under’ will feature last month’s surprise single ‘Hell On Earth’, which was said to signal “the start of a new era” for Circa Waves.

Circa Waves have made a surprise return with their new single, ‘Hell On Earth’ – you can listen to it below.The song is said to signal “the start of a new era” for the Liverpool band, whose latest album ‘Sad Happy’ came out in early 2020. The track received its first play last night (August 17) on BBC Radio 1.“‘Hell On Earth’ is about the world moving so fast around you you’re struggling to keep up,” explained frontman Kieran Shudall of the stomping, energetic number in a statement.“Record stores closing, politicians lying more than ever, social anxiety at its highest level and that general feeling some days that everything is going wrong.”In the anthemic chorus, Shudall sings: “I think I’ve died and gone to hell/ And I don’t care/ I don’t care cos it was hell on earth.” Listen to the single here:An official music video for the single – directed by Circa Waves themselves – is due to premiere on YouTube at 7pm BST this evening (August 18).

Circa Waves have added two new dates to their upcoming August UK tour – see the band’s full schedule below.The band had been hoping to tour last year in support of their most recent album ‘Sad Happy’, which was released in March 2020.