THE NINTH WAVE announce hiatus with final Manchester Show

Glasgow’s THE NINTH WAVE today release new track “Hard Not To Hold You”, the final taster of the band’s second album Heavy Like A Headache, out 18th March 2022 via Distiller Records.

The band have also announced that following the release of Heavy Like A Headache and their 3 upcoming headline dates in Manchester, London and Glasgow, the four-piece will be going on hiatus to pursue their own personal projects.

Accompanying the new single release, the band say: “How heavy do you let your head ache before you let yourself break? Songs for scraping under the surface, for starting again, songs for leaving. Elaborating our fragility into intensity – expanding beyond our infancy.”

Making a statement about their future plans, The Ninth Wave say:

“Hello! We are so so so excited to release our second album. We love it a lot and we hope you do too. We poured a lot of love, effort and emotion into it and we couldn’t be prouder of the end result. It’s our strongest body of songs without a doubt. Hope you’re ready for it!

On a sad but also happy note, we’ve decided that after this album is out and after the three celebration gigs in March, we’re gonna take an extended break from The Ninth Wave. That means these gigs in March will be our last as a band for a long time (maybe ever!).

We are all still best of pals and love what we have created together. However, we’ve been going full pelt for the last six years and we feel like it’s time to give the band a breather. We also all have other projects that we’re keen to explore and taking a breather from the band will give us all the opportunity to do that. The Ninth Wave has given us some of the best times and we’ve met some of the loveliest people we’ve known throughout it all.

So, these gigs in March are going to be extremely f**king special celebrations. There’ll be laugh, tears, cuddles, dancing, the whole bloody lot. We’re going to be playing a bunch of songs from the new album, as well as a load of the family favourites and GrEaTeSt HiTz. You absolutely CANNOT miss out, imagine the regret oh my god!!! The tour that we did at the end of 2021 reminded us of how much we f**king love playing live and seeing every one of you going for it and feeling the same feelings as us is something special.

Love to you all and we hope you love Heavy Like a Headache as much as we do. See you in March for one last dance.”