GLASS ANIMALS TO BRING ‘TOUR OF EARTH’ TO THE O2

Today, Human Music Group Sensations Glass Animals have announced their TOUR OF EARTH, which will be coming to The O2 on Thursday 7 November 2024.

Priority Tickets are available to O2 and Virgin Media customers at https://priority.o2.co.uk/ from Tuesday 9 April at 10am and go on general sale at 10am on Thursday 11 April www.theo2.co.uk.

Yesterday, Glass Animals announced details of their highly anticipated fourth studio album, I Love You So F***ing Much, set for release on July 19. The album is introduced by the band’s new single, “Creatures in Heaven,” out now.

I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and gave life to “Heat Waves,” the record-breaking song that became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years. It was the first song by a British band since the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” in 1995 to claim #1 for five consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first song to reach #1 with a single writer and producer since Pharell’s “Happy” – leading to the pop world’s biggest acts, including Florence Welch, all wanting to work with Glass Animals frontman, songwriter, and producer, Dave Bayley. But the birth of I Love You So F***ing Much was an existential crisis. Dave found himself struggling to make sense of this newfound global stardom, having watched it all happen while the world was in lockdown.

He says, “Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you aren’t able to change as quickly on a personal level. You end up feeling like a spectator. And then you are asked and expected to be a certain type of person, a different person. But…I wasn’t sure how. It confused me to the point of not knowing who I was or if anything was real.” It took being stranded on a cliff in a wooden house on stilts during one of California’s biggest storms in history to push that feeling into a full existential crisis. In forced isolation, watching trees tumble down mountains and assuming “death was coming,” Dave began asking questions of himself, of the universe, and of the human experience: namely, love. As he came to accept himself as an introvert, Dave realized that “human connection and the love between us is much bigger, more important, and more complex than anything else”. “Creatures in Heaven” is the sublime first glimpse into ten intimate love stories set against the backdrop of the universe.

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For more information on event, please contact:

Nicole Hajjar | nicole.hajjar@umusic.com

For other information, please contact:

Mohammad Qazalbash | Mohammad.Qazalbash@LiveNation.co.uk

Molly Hemsley | Molly.Hemsley@LiveNation.co.uk

Will Barlow | Will.Barlow@LiveNation.co.uk

Aimee McIntosh | Aimee.McIntosh@livenation.co.uk