Everything Everything

When: 26th March 2024
Location: SWG3 Galvanizers

Everything Everything is back with a new tour celebrating their latest album Mountainhead. Coming to Glasgow’s SWG3 Galvanizers on 23th March 2024.

Manchester-based four-piece Everything Everything’s journey began in Northumberland town of Hexham, where original members Jonathan Higgs, Alex Niven and Michael Spearman attended secondary school. It would be some years before the trio – joined by bassist Jeremy Pritchard who Higgs met studying in the south coast city of Portsmouth – would come together under the band’s current name. Following the disbandment of Pritchard and Higgs’ outfit Modern Bison, the quartet set to out to create a futuristic take on pop and contemporary RnB. Injecting elements of punk into their early performances, Everything Everything emerged onto the live music scene in 2007, unveiling their debut single Suffragette Suffragette a year later.

Their third single (and eventual debut album opener) MY KY UR BF gathered mainstream attention, introducing the band’s off-kilter indie rock and Jonathan Higgs’ distinctive falsetto vocal style to the ever-burgeoning UK scene. Released in 2009, the track secured the band a spot on the coveted BBC Sound Of 2010 longlist. Shortly beforehand, Niven had left the band, replaced by new lead guitarist Alex Robertshaw.

Their debut album

Everything Everything released their acclaimed full-length debut Man Alive in 2010, welcoming a Mercury Music Prize nomination the following year. Hitting the road in support of the album, they joined both Muse and Snow Patrol on respective nationwide tours. They then began working on their follow-up Arc, announced with lead single Cough Cough in 2012 and released in January 2013. The band reunited with Man Alive producer David Kosten for the album and further broadened their already unclassifiable sound. Arc reached number five on the official UK album chart, and the band subsequently embarked on their first headline tour across mainland Europe. Single Kemosabe also secured the band an Ivor Novello Award nomination.

Get To Heaven followed in June 2015, announced with lead single Distant Past a few months prior. The band stepped away from working with Kosten, instead collaborating with Stuart Price (The Killers, Pet Shop Boys). Lyrically, the new record focused on the changing sociopolitical climate; it was reported that Higgs spent much of his time ahead of the release with the news on repeat, and responded through Get To Heaven.

After penning the theme for BT Sport’s Premiere League shows, the band returned with their fourth studio album in August 2017, leading to their second Mercury Prize nomination in 2018. Returning lyrically to more personal matters, the album matched the success of Arc in reaching number five on the UK album chart.

Everything Everything’s fifth album

In 2020, Everything Everything announced their fifth album, Re-Animator, following singles In Birdsong and Arch Enemy. A concept album of sorts, the record was built around a modern-day protagonist searching for a meaningful god. The band also announced that they would be touring across the UK in March and April 2021.

In 2022 the band released their sixth album Raw Data Feel, which utilised the ever-increasing dominance of AI engines in its themes, visuals and lyrics. The LP included the hits ‘Pizza Boy’, ‘I Want A Love Like This’ and ‘Bad Friday’.

In October 2023, Everything Everything announced their new record, Mountainhead, would be released in March 2024, alongside news of a UK tour.