The WAEVE have share new single “Broken Boys.” The track is the third single from the band’s forthcoming second studio album City Lights, available on September 20th, 2024 via Transgressive Records. The UK duo includes Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall and follows the singles “City Lights,” and “You Saw.”

To celebrate the release of City Lights, The WAEVE will play four very special live performances at Rough Trade, as follows: Rough Trade Liverpool on 20th September; Rough Trade Nottingham (SOLD OUT); Rough Trade Bristol (SOLD OUT), and Rough Trade East, London. The band will return to London later this year for a sold out performance – and their largest headline show to date – at the Village Underground in late October.

The WAEVE recently played to 100,000 plus fans across a run of festival and show dates including a headline slot at Latitude’s Sunrise Arena, Green Man Festival; eight dates with Elbow including a performance at Audley End; plus a high profile show at Warwick Castle with Noel Gallagher.

City Lights, was written by Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall, and produced once again by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys), the album features Graham and Rose on vocals, as well as keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drums and saxophone.

Back in 2020, Coxon and Dougall were adrift. When they met backstage at a charity gig at London’s Jazz Café one night, Dougall suggested they write some songs together. Formerly of retro-pop trio The Pipettes, Dougall had released her third solo album A New Illusion the previous year and having relocated from LA back to London just as Covid struck, Coxon was in a state of flux. “I didn’t know when I was going to work again or try writing again until Rose came out and said, ‘How about we try writing together?’” says the guitarist.

“When I listen to the first album, I can hear me and Graham getting to know each other through making the record,” says Dougall today. Through the process of writing and recording together, not only did Coxon and Dougall get to know each other, they fell in love, and in August 2022 welcomed their baby daughter Eliza into the world.

“The first record was a way of escaping the constrictions of what was going on in the world,” says Dougall. “I think this one was a way of railing against the more domestic constraints that we had. That’s partly where some of the urgency of some of the songs come from.”

The WAEVE
City Lights
Tracklisting
Transgressive Records

1. City Lights
2. You Saw
3. Moth To The Flame
4. I Belong To
5. Simple Days
6. Broken Boys
7. Song For Eliza May
8. Druantia
9. Girl Of The Endless Night
10. Sunrise

The WAEVE 2024 Live Dates

9/20 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade
9/21 – Nottingham, UK @Rough Trade (SOLD OUT)
9/23 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade (SOLD OUT)
9/24 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East
10/29 – London, UK @ Village Underground (SOLD OUT)

Pre Order City Lights by The WAEVE HERE