Fresh off the release WIRED – their first new album in over eight years – British alternative rock mainstays Basement today announce a major North American headline tour set for this Fall. The run will see the band bring their blistering and adrenaline-fueled live show across the U.S. and Canada with dates kicking off at Brooklyn Paramount in Brooklyn, NY on October 7 and concluding in Boston, MA on November 13. Along the way they will stop at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles on October 20. Supporting them on the road will be Momma, DIIV, High Vis, Fiddlehead, Big Boy, First Day Back, and Febuary on select dates. Tickets are on-sale Thursday, May 14 at 10am local and will be available here. All dates are listed below.
Basement celebrated the release of WIRED with a surprise show at Milky’s in Los Angeles that had fans wrapped around the block to get in, and stage diving from the minute the band hit the stage. The show was shared widely on social media including from @torresblends, @Knotfest, @notyournatalie, and @jonweisberg, among others. On June 5, Basement will embark on a European tour followed by an appearance at London’s All Points East Festival in August.
Today’s announcement arrives on the heels of an overwhelming week for the band following the release of WIRED (Run For Cover Records). Produced by John Congleton (Death Cab for Cutie, Wallows, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten), the album has been praised for its urgency, melody, and raw intensity while marking a bold new chapter for Basement. Leading to WIRED’s release, Basement shared the album’s title track, “Broken By Design,” “The Way I Feel,” “Head Alight” and last week’s focus track “Time Waster.” The singles have drawn attention from, among others, Stereogum, Alternative Press, Under The Radar, and Consequence.
Basement — vocalist Andrew Fisher, guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix, bassist Duncan Stewart, and drummer James Fisher — were adamant that Wired had to be their most decisive artistic statement yet. A bold musical swing that people will either love or hate, but that absolutely can’t elicit a muted reaction from their fans. The group spent years writing and refining the 12 no-bloat songs, working closer and communicating better than ever while building out the tracklist as a group in various studios long before they began recording. Therefore, the songs were fully-formed by the time they hit the studio with powerhouse producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Mannequin Pussy), who helped the band manifest the heightened version of Basement that they’d always dreamt of. Imperfections were celebrated, each member’s ideas were incorporated, and Congleton ensured that every moment on Wired sounds both precise and enervated.
“I never thought Basement could sound like this,” says guitarist Alex Henery. “But in my head, it’s what I’ve always wanted Basement to sound like.”
Every time Basement take a break, their band gets bigger. The quintet’s 2011 debut, I Wish You Could Stay Here, gave them a foothold in the post-hardcore groundswell of the early 2010s, but Basement had already decided to call it quits before their far more evolved follow-up, Colourmeinkindness, had even hit the shelves. Upon disbanding in late 2012 so vocalist Fisher could get his teaching degree, Basement’s underground following ballooned in their absence, and when they eventually reformed in 2014, they were welcomed back as mainstays of the scene.
Basement charged forward with two more LPs, 2016’s snappier Promise Everything and 2018’s sleeker Beside Myself, but after the latter record, which was released on a major label, Basement knew they needed to take a year off to recalibrate. “We were all left with a really weird, sour taste in our mouth after signing to a major label and having all these people control things,” Fisher admits. During their COVID-era hiatus, each member questioned whether the band should even continue as they spent time pursuing their own creative outlets. It was a period of serious existential reflection for the guys in Basement, and at one point, Henery considered stepping away from the band altogether before Fisher intervened, knowing that everyone in Basement needed the band to persevere. ”Alex saying that he was ready to cut the cord was what I needed to be like ‘Nope, we cannot do that,’” Fisher says.
After some deep conversations that reaffirmed their creative alliance, Henery and Fisher reconvened to begin writing again with no label pressures and no strings attached. Instantly, the seeds of Wired began to take shape, and soon enough, the whole band knew they had something special in the works. Coincidentally, not long after Basement began properly sculpting LP5, the Colourmeinkindness song “Covet” caught wind on TikTok and swiftly became a viral hit, earning a Gold certification in 2024 — 12 years after its release — and introducing Basement’s music to a whole new generation of internet-savvy fans.
Once again, Basement find themselves re-emerging with new music bigger and more beloved than ever before.
The tour will be making a stop at the Royal Oak Music Theatre on November 8th. For more on this event click here. Supporting On Select Dates Are *Momma, Big Boy, Febuary, High Vis, Big Boy, First Day Back, DIIV, And Fiddlehead.
