The Wombats to play 'special' Royal Albert Hall show

The Wombats, Virgin Mobile Stage, 15.30pm, V Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire, August 19, 2007. Pic: Jo McCaughey

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Jan 30, 2008
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The Wombats are to play a one-off show at London's prestigous Royal Albert Hall on May 23.

After their Brixton Academy show in the city on May 3 sold out, the band decided to add a date at the internationally-renowned venue.

They promise the show will be “different from anything the band have ever done before and with a whole barrage of surprises planned”.

Tickets for this new show show will go on sale at 9am on Friday (February 1).

Meanwhile The Wombats full UK and Irish tour is now:

Norwich UEA (April 27)
Southampton Guildhall (28)
Brighton Dome (29)
Stoke Victoria Hall (May 1)
London Brixton Academy (3)
Leeds University (4)
Bristol Academy (5)
Oxford Academy (6)
Nottingham Rock City (8)
Blackpool Empress Ballroom (9)
Birmingham Academy (10)
Newcastle Academy (12)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (13)
Inverness Ironworks (14)
Sheffield Academy (15)
London Royal Albert Hall (23)
Cork Cyprus Avenue (25)
Dublin Whelan's (26)
Belfast Speakeasy (27)

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Indietimmy

Jan 31, 2008

how do the wombats deserve to play at the royal albert hall? their unsinspired pop will frankly sound shit in that magnificent venue. bands like kings of leon deserve to play their epic tunes within those walls not some one album wonder band who say nothing in their music excpet about dancing to joy division and how they pathetically failed to pulla girl last night. why, nme why?

steveshit

Jan 31, 2008

timmy! timmy! timmy!

more to the point, do you reckon they can sell it out?

Kessel

Jan 31, 2008

Obviously the promoters have confidence that the show will sell well - considering that the Brixton Academy show sold out in a few days.

billythebat

Mar 21, 2008

I think it's awesome that they get to play at royal albert hall! I'm so attending!

tombat

May 24, 2008

What the fuck?!It's the Albert Sessions, getting smaller bands to start playing at the RAH again, the Wombats being the perfect band to play. I went last night and 'indiecoolkidcockfacetimmy' who said it would sound shit was completely wrong, their sound was strong and powerful and had everyone chanting and on their chairs! They had a small orchestra too which made the whole night even more special.I can't understand why people who don't like the Wombats, waste their time posting comments on their news articles...?