waterparks: Last News

Waterparks frontman Awsten Knight has launched a new solo project, inspired by classic video games.Released via his own A.K. Art Projects brand, ‘Video Game Music’ features 24 instrumental tracks that take influence from the music of Spyro The Dragon and Crash Bandicoot.The double album is currently only available on CD and will apparently not be released on streaming.

Waterparks have cancelled the release of their forthcoming album ‘Intellectual Property 2: Lost In The Property’.Announced in May, the release was intended as a ‘sister’ album to 2023’s ‘Intellectual Property’ and was set to feature the already-released singles ‘SOULSUCKER’, ‘SNEAKING OUT OF HEAVEN’ and ‘FAI2’, a rework of their previous single ‘Fuck About It’ featuring Zeph.A release date hadn’t been confirmed, but the newly-independent band said on Friday (August 2) that the album won’t come out at all. The announcement came with a video of a hooded man digging up a grave, in which lay frontman Awsten Knight in the costume for that era.

You Me At Six, the All-American Rejects, I Prevail and more have been announced as the first wave of performers for next year’s edition of Slam Dunk festival.Boys Like Girls and We The Kings will also be performing on the main stage along with You Me At Six and the All-American Rejects. Head Automatica will also grace the stage with a performance in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their debut LP ‘Decadence’.Other acts that have been announced and are set to play include Funeral For A Friend, Asking Alexandria, I Prevail, The Interrupters, Waterparks, Palaye Royale, Pale Waves, Bob Vylan, Pennywise, The Skints, Goldfinger, LA Dispute, Mad Caddies, Mom Jeans, One Step Closer, Artio, Røry, Set It Off, The Bouncing Souls, The Selecter, The Wonder Years and L.S.

You Me At Six have announced a UK headline tour – you’ll be able to buy tickets from here when they go on sale.The band will hit the road next February in support of their eighth studio album ‘Truth Decay’, which is due for release in 2023.Kicking off in Plymouth on February 1, the upcoming run of shows will also include performances in Glasgow (February 3), Manchester (6), Nottingham (9) and Cardiff (10). The tour is set to conclude with a concert at Alexandra Palace in London on November 11.Waterparks, The Maine and Bears In Trees will all support You Me At Six on the stint.Tickets go on sale at 10am BST this Friday (July 29) – you’ll be able to purchase yours from here.

Waterparks have shared another cryptic teaser for their upcoming fifth album, cluing fans in on what to expect from the release.In a post shared to the band’s Twitter page overnight (February 22), they teased that if their fourth full-length effort – last year’s ‘Greatest Hits’ – was “an indoor nighttime album”, the new record would be “an outdoor daytime album”. They also hinted at an imminent single release, writing in a note: “Probably need to let you hear something soon huh?”Take a look at the post – which also includes a POV photo of a band member in the studio, sitting in front of a mixing console – below:5 pic.twitter.com/Fx071GfM7K— WATERPARKS (@waterparks) February 21, 2022Another hint at the new record comes in Waterparks’ new Twitter bio, “####### ####”, which fans are taking as confirmation that its title will comprise two words, the first sporting seven letters and the second sporting four.

Waterparks have shared an update on their forthcoming new album, teasing that it’s “80 per cent done”.The follow-up to last year’s ‘Greatest Hits’ will be the band’s fifth album, and according to a social media post the Texas trio are wading through a lot of material.Yesterday (February 14), the band’s official Twitter account confirmed that their next album – tentatively titled ‘PARX5’ – is currently “80 per cent done”. They also revealed that they’ve penned 55 songs for the project that total two hours and 23 minutes.Over on frontman Awsten Knight’s Instagram Story, he said of the new material: “Can’t even describe how good this shit is,” and that song number 54 out of 55 was his “current fave”.He also tweeted that the band “need more friends on this album”, with Phem and Against The Current‘s Chrissy Costanza throwing their hats in the ring in the replies.TAG pic.twitter.com/FA0RM5DIEi— DANNY FANDOM (@awsten) February 14, 2022Speaking to NME at Reading Festival last year, Knight revealed that there are some collaborative tracks sitting in the Waterparks vault.Texas rapper De’Wayne previously featured on their 2021 single ‘You’d Be Paranoid Too (If Everyone Was Out To Get You)’, and Aswten told NME that this wasn’t the only song they worked on.

Waterparks have changed the song title to one of their tracks to match a fan’s misspelt tattoo.Twitter user @clancybitch took to the social media site last month to post a tattoo inspired by the band’s recent ‘Greatest Hits’ album closer, ‘See You In The Future’.But the tattoo artist had accidentally written “See You In In The Future” instead.The band spotted the mistake and frontman Awsten Knight has now replied to the fan and said Waterparks have in fact changed the song title to match the inking.“HEY I SAW YOUR TATTOO AND FIGURED THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS CHANGE THE SONG TITLE FOR U,” Knight wrote.HEY I SAW YOUR TATTOO AND FIGURED THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS CHANGE THE SONG TITLE FOR U https://t.co/7LiDv9KEjz https://t.co/4qDnA3mGHJ— DANNY