Lauren Mayberry has announced a UK headline tour including a Manchester gig at Manchester Academy 2.
The Manchester gig is one of six UK dates she will headline in March 2025. The Chvrches frontwoman will open the tour with a hometown show at Glasgow’s Barrowland.
News of the tour comes as Lauren Mayberry prepares to release her debut album Vicious Creature and support London Grammar at Manchester’s AO Arena.
Lauren Mayberry will release Vicious Creature on 6 December. The album marks her debut solo album and features new track Crocodile Tears. The album promises to find Lauren Mayberry providing a personal perspective on sexuality and empowerment as she brings together two decades in Chvrches and the start of a new era. For her first full-length release outside of Chvrches, Mayberry sought freedom: from rules, expectations and preconceptions. Working with prolific producers like Greg Kurstin, Matthew Korma, Tobias Jesso Jr., Ethan Gruska and Dan McDougall, she accessed not only a new world of inspiration but the deep well of creativity she’s had within her all along.
“So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition – something I really trained myself out of,” she explains. “That’s ultimately why you start making things – because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence, and recognise what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”
This week Lauren Mayberry revealed her latest single Crocodile Tears. In writing the track alongside Matthew Koma and Ethan Gruska, she set about adopting what she describes as “a sort of character where I could really let go of the idea that I need to be ‘nice,’ because I think that holds so many women back in their lives. If I didn’t have to be seen as ‘nice,’ I would feel comfortable telling certain people to fuck off when they treat me like shit – on this record, and in these songs, I get to do that.”
When does Lauren Mayberry headline at Manchester Academy 2?
Lauren Mayberry headlines at Manchester Academy 2 on 24 March 2025. The Manchester gig is one of six UK dates she has announced:
20 March – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
21 March – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele
23 March – Birmingham, O2 Academy 2
24 March – Manchester, Academy 2
25 March – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
26 March – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
image of Lauren Mayberry courtesy Charlotte Patmore
