JOYWAVE ANNOUNCE UK & EU 2024 TOUR AHEAD
OF FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM
INCLUDING MANCHESTER’S YES PINK ROOM ON SAT 02 NOV
TICKETS ON SALE FRI 17 MAY AT 10AM HERE
‘PERMANENT PLEASURE’ OUT ON FRI 17 MAY HERE
Indie-rock trio Joywave announce their 2024 UK date at Manchester’s Yes, Pink Room on Sat 02 November. Following their support tour with Two Door Cinema Club earlier this year, the NY-based outfit have established themselves as a live powerhouse and must-see band for 2024. The news comes ahead of their fifth studio album ‘Permanent Pleasure’ which will be released on Fri 17 May. Tickets for their Yes, Pink Room Manchester date will also be available from Fri 17 here. For information on all tour dates please visit https://joywavemusic.com/tour.
Joywave are at an exciting point in their career. Not only have the act survived the pressures of their major-label debut and the dreaded sophomore slump, they’ve established themselves as the kind of band that you’re as likely to hear at a hip record store as you are at the grocery store. There is a difference between ubiquity and evolution and with their fifth full-length Permanent Pleasure, Joywave—vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Daniel Armbruster, guitarist Joseph Morinelli and drummer Paul Brenner—lean into guitar and string sections without sacrificing the signature sound that’s endeared the band to countless fans, whether they know it or not, over the past eleven years.
Rochester, New York, isn’t necessarily known for its bustling entertainment industry, but it is rich in culture and creativity. The trio’s hometown is integral not only to the theme of Permanent Pleasure (audio samples from 1984 historical compilation release, The Rochester Sesquicentennial, bookend the album), but also to Joywave’s overall identity. Despite international acclaim and major-label success, the band maintain a DIY work ethic that keeps them grounded in the present moment while always reaching toward the future. We go to our studio and make a record with total creative freedom and we turn it in and the label tells us we did a great job,” Armbruster explains. This arrangement is a rarity in the music industry these days—but like all things Joywave, somehow it works out in a way that makes perfect sense for them.
Once again produced by Armbruster at the band’s own Rochester-based studio, The Joycave, Permanent Pleasure is an unfiltered vision of the band’s creativity that sees them stepping outside of their sonic comfort zone. “I think this is probably our least keyboard [heavy] record,” Armbruster explains, adding that in some ways Permanent Pleasure was a reaction to the more cohesive and linear construction of 2022’s Cleanse. “On Permanent Pleasure we blew everything apart again: We’re switching out drum components and everything we can between songs and freeing ourselves again from the box of ‘it has to be super cohesive’ because I always want to rage against what we did last time. But five records in, we’re a lot better at writing and recording, so it’s bringing back a little bit of the all-over vibe of the first record, but on the other side of the experience. We’ve gone through a wormhole.”
“I want to touch you but I’m scared,” Armbruster sings on the infectious single “Scared,” an ode to codependency that’s as much about connection as it is existential dread—and ultimately that dichotomy between humor and hopelessness lies at the core of Permanent Pleasure. “I think the job of an artist is to explore any side of being a person and self-awareness is a huge part of being a person,” Armbruster summarizes. “I think artists who ignore humor aren’t being true to themselves and it’s a huge part of who we are despite having thoughts on the record that are on the darker side of things. I feel like you have to wink a little bit to make it okay. You have to make a joke about the asteroid as the asteroid is about to hit.”
Joywave UK/EU 2024 Tour Dates
30 Oct 2024: Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store
31 Oct 2024: Oxford, UK @ Bullingdon
01 Nov 2024: Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts
02 Nov 2024: Manchester, UK @ YES (Pink Room)
03 Nov 2024: Sheffield, UK @ Sidney & Matilda
05 Nov 2024: Nottingham, UK @ Bodega
06 Nov 2024: London, UK @ Scala
08 Nov 2024: Zurich, Switzerland @ Papiersaal
09 Nov 2024: Cologne, Germany @ Artheater
10 Nov 2024: Berlin, Germany @ Badehaus
12 Nov 2024: Copenhagen, Denmark @ Pumpehuset
13 Nov 2024: Eindhoven, Netherlands @ Effenaar KZ
14 Nov 2024: Utrecht, Netherlands @ De Helling
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
