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12 October 2026 – The Wombats Announce Twentieth-Anniversary Tour and Prepare to Revisit A Guide to Love Loss and Desperation
By Editorial Team - October 12, 2026
Summary
Liverpool indie-rock trio The Wombats announce a 2027 UK and European headline tour playing their 2007 debut album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation in full.
Key Facts
- The Wombats announce 20th anniversary tour celebrating A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation.
- Trio to perform the 2007 debut album in full across UK and European dates in 2027.
- Tour includes major stops in Manchester, London, and an intimate Liverpool hometown show.
- Entities: The Wombats, Matthew Murphy, Tord Øverland Knudsen, Dan Haggis, A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation, O2 Victoria Warehouse, O2 Academy Brixton, Liverpool Arts Club
- Tags: the-wombats, a-guide-to-love-loss-and-desperation, indie-rock, post-punk-revival, anniversary-tour, liverpool-indie, uk-tour
Liverpool indie rock favourites The Wombats have announced a major UK and European tour celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their breakthrough debut album, A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation.
Originally released in 2007, the record helped define the British indie-rock revival with frantic rhythms, catchy guitar hooks and self-deprecating romantic lyricism. Band members Matthew Murphy, Tord Øverland Knudsen and Dan Haggis will perform the album in its entirety during the 2027 concerts, alongside a selection of fan favourites from their four subsequent studio releases.
The UK tour begins April 10 at Manchester's O2 Victoria Warehouse and features performances at London's O2 Academy Brixton as well as an intimate hometown celebration at Liverpool Arts Club. The band noted that returning to these songs reflects the whirlwind formative years of sleeping in tour vans and playing pub circuits before international breakthrough.
Pre-sale tickets open Wednesday, October 14, followed by general on-sale on Friday, October 16. Two decades on, The Wombats prove that angular indie anthems and energetic social observation remain as vibrant as ever.