Waterparks Have Announced A UK And European Tour

Ahead of the release of their new album Fandom on October 11, Waterparks have announced a UK and European headline tour.

The Houston, Texas trio will be taking on Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, London, Koln, Munich, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm in January and February 2020, with tickets for the tour going on sale this Friday at 10am via the Kerrang! Ticket Store.

Catch Waterparks live at the following:

January 2020

24 Dublin Academy
25 Belfast Waterfront Studio
26 Glasgow SWG3
27 Birmingham Institute
29 Manchester Academy 2

February 2020

1 London Electric Ballroom
4 Koln Luxor
5 Munich Feirerwerk
7 Amsterdam Melkweg
8 Hamburg Logo
9 Copenhagen Pumpehuset
11 Oslo Parkteateret
12 Stockholm Klubben

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With Fandom on the way, frontman Awsten Knight recently told Kerrang! about the band's signing to Hopeless Records, and how the label have allowed them to remain in complete creative control on their forthcoming third album.

“Hopeless said, ‘Hey, can we come and hear stuff?’ And I was so apprehensive, because it’s a weird thing for someone to come in and hear something that’s unfinished,” Awsten said. “I didn’t want anyone to say it wasn’t ready, because it’s like, ‘No shit!’ But people from Hopeless came in and were listening and going, ‘Holy fuck!’ I explained what I wanted to do and how I wanted this album to be: I want every song to be the best fucking song, and I want them to be able to all live in different worlds. Like if we’re referring to playlists or anything like that, I want every one of these songs to be able to just live on its own in a completely different fan base, you know what I mean? That’s the idea behind this. There’s one song that could have been considered a little bit pop-punk, and I was like, ‘Fuck this!’ So we just changed it up. We get on all the playlists that are like, ‘Pop-Punk Forever!’ and I’m just like, ‘Meh, I guess…’ I just want every song to be able to live comfortably with completely different sets of people. That’s a cool, conscious thing that I’m really excited about.”

He also revealed how inspiration for writing music can come from literally anywhere – even movies or TV shows.

“While we’re making albums I try not to listen to any other bands, just because it’s so easy to accidentally fall into somebody else’s lane, and I never, ever want to do that,” Awsten explained. “It’s funny that you mention movies being influential because there’s at least three songs that come to mind right now that feel like a movie score (laughs). But it’s cool – it’s like taking a movie score and then putting a song into it. I don’t want to get too in-depth yet, but you can probably find most genres, or at least pieces of genres, in these songs.”

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