Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall’s The WAEVE announce 2023 UK tour and share new single

Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall‘s The WAEVE have introduced a UK tour and shared new single ‘Drowning’.

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The duo will hit the street for dates in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, London and Brighton in 2023 March.

Tickets for his or her London Lafayette present on March 27 are already on sale here whereas the remaining dates which additionally, you will have the ability to buy here, might be launched this Friday at 10am BST.

The tour will assist their forthcoming debut album underneath The WAEVE moniker, out on February 3 via Transgressive.

The duo have additionally shared their new single ‘Drowning’ which the pair describe as “cinematic”. You may hear it under.

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Talking concerning the observe in assertion, the duo stated: “Drowning is without doubt one of the extra meandering, cinematic songs on the album. The track touches on themes of permitting oneself to be subsumed by forces you may’t deny, whether or not that be romantically or life usually, of giving into the scrumptious danger of whole failure and oblivion, regardless of one’s higher judgment.

“Lyrically it comes from two completely different views, with Rose’s vocal starting as an intimate half secret, which then expands into hovering strings. By the top we hear Graham’s chorus, acquiescing to the rising tides of depth and acceptance of a shared destiny – ‘Maintain on to me because the waters rise. Drowning once more’…”

The observe follows earlier singles ‘Can I Name You’ and ‘One thing Fairly’.

Talking concerning the challenge, Dougall not too long ago defined to NME how they had been extra concerned with “the blood, guts, intercourse and nastiness of English people music”.

“I’m not within the twee facet of folks,” she stated. “We’re coping with life and loss of life and all that type of factor. There’s a brutality to nature. It’s not all pastoral. These are the visible issues I really feel that our music summons up.”

She added: “There’s a really sturdy Englishness about our references, no matter which means. I’ve been pondering lots about what it means to be English. It’s a really difficult and uncomfortable relationship I've with that, more and more, daily.”

Coxon agreed, including that the England they symbolize is a way more uncooked model than the one that may have come throughout in his Britpop days with Blur.

“We got the chance to make one thing and go someplace, however go behind the veil of the expertise of what it’s wish to be English, of this panorama, of this nation; and to return to extra of a superstitious, fascinating and wealthy land,” he stated.

“I all the time liked the thought of whenever you get a hag stone and look via it, you’re meant to see the world otherwise. You’re meant to be seeing the world of the fairies and the elves. It’s undoubtedly been a long-term curiosity of mine – the elementals of the hearth, the water and the earth, the panorama, the objects and the timber and what they could symbolise.”

The WAEVE will play the next UK dates:

MARCH 2023
19 – Bristol Trade
20 – Manchester Band on The Wall
21 – Glasgow Saint Luke’s
23 – Leeds Brudenell Social Membership
24 – Sheffield The Foundry
25 – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
27 – London Lafayette
28 – Brighton Chalk