Will Varley

This event will take place in EartH Theatre.

English singer-songwriter Will Varley returns with his 7th album, ‘Machines Will Never Learn To Make Mistakes Like Me’, to be released 30th May 2025 on MNRK Music Group, home to the likes of The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov & Shakey Graves.

Coinciding with the announcement of ‘Machines Will Never Learn To Make Mistakes Like Me’, the first studio album since 2021’s ‘The Hole Around My Head’, Varley also releases new single ‘Different Man’, a tale of tour mishaps & bad fortune with the video featuring actor Gethin Anthony most known for his roles in the critically acclaimed ‘Game of Thrones’ & Netflix’s ‘Manhunt’ series.

“I did a lot of touring in the US and Europe over the years, opening for various bands and sleeping on rickety old tour buses that were close to being written off. This is a song about that, and it details some of the scrapes we got into” explains Will, “Like one night we went through a tunnel just outside of New York in the Winter, but the bus was too tall to go through, so the air con units all got sliced off the top of the roof with two huge bangs. It was pitch black outside, and none of us knew what was going on, just that it was suddenly snowing inside. It was 3am and we had to drive like that all the way to Chicago with a mandolin case wedged into the ceiling to stop the snow coming in. That sort of thing”

To celebrate, Will has announced a London headline date on Saturday 4th October at Dalston’s EartH plus a European Tour kicking off in the Netherlands 9th October and culminating in a date at Cologne’s HELIOS 37.

Inspired by his natural habitats of the East Kent Coast and the US Midwest, these songs are rich, lyrical tales that speak of hard touring, relationships on the rocks and the rebuilding of minds. Featuring some very special guest appearances including Billy Bragg, Eleni Drake & Bastille’s Dan Smith, the album continues Varley’s decade long exploration of the human condition, this time focusing on society’s ever-present threat of impending apocalypse, how we marry this with the mundane and the minutiae of our everyday lives and how we can find hope.

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16+ event. (16-17 with a responsible adult 18+,1:1)