THE PALE WHITE – Announce MANCHESTER Show this March
Today, Newcastle alt-rock trio The Pale White return to announce their second album ‘The Big Sad’, due for release on 18th April 2025 via End of the Wall Recordings, pre-order / save here.
The announcement also comes alongside a brand new single ‘Lost In The Moment’, available to stream here.
Back in 2025 with their debut release from the imminent new album ‘The Big Sad’, new single ‘Lost In The Moment’ sails in with anticipation which erupts into an exciting cacophony of high impact guitar riffs. Moving through waves of intricate textures established with a driving bassline, tubular bells and often hypnotic vocals, the track captures the captivating feeling of those nostalgic moments where time stands still.
Speaking on new single ‘Lost in The Moment’, frontman Adam Hope says, “A special song to me. It’s about the feeling, or lack thereof, which suddenly washes over you when you least expect it. A certain type of numbness, not necessarily tied to anything good, or bad. Perhaps it’s a captivation of something beautiful, or maybe it could be the type of melancholy in the pit of your stomach when reminiscing and romanticising the past. Whatever it may be, time freezes and you’re neither here nor there… just for a moment.”
“The Big Sad: an album born from the ashes of dark times, but representing a beacon of light for the future. An album of honesty and purity, one that our current fanbase sonically may not be expecting. The sound of a band that got tired of slamming on the fuzz pedal to tick the ‘rock’ box and dares to try something new, dares to shock, dares to be great.”
This is the northeast calling, with songs of stillness, reflection, renewal, defiance, hope, classic melodies and, at certain perfectly judged moments, furniture-shifting riffs. With a powerful album shaped by pandemic-era loss (of momentum, and of a band member), and by the wins brought by what singer/songwriter/guitarist Adam Hope describes as a “weight lifted off my shoulders”. With a fresh, front-footed, fired-up approach that owes everything to a band returning to their roots in Wallsend and Newcastle – and, for the first time, making their music entirely on their own independent terms: self-produced and self-confident.
This is the return of The Pale White with, in all its surging emotion and pitch-perfect songcraft, the 13-track triumph that is The Big Sad.
At the time devoid of fresh blood, Newcastle quickly became alight with buzz around The Pale White upon their formation in 2016. Brothers Adam and Jack Hope, then joined by Tom Booth, honed their skills as a ferocious three-piece and quickly settled into a rhythm of their own with a self-titled EP in 2017 and 2018’s hip-swaggering ‘Take Me to the Strange’ before releasing their debut 2021 album ‘Infinite Pleasure’.
Heads were quickly turning and with ongoing support from Radio 1, Radio X and Triple J, the band’s tunes were playing up and down the country. Highlighted as “one of the North East’s hottest groups” by NME and their tunes praised as “filthy, QOTSA-esque stoner rock” by The Independent in a 5-star live review, local hype soon translated into widespread acclaim, huge support slots and impressive festival appearances.
THE PALE WHITE – 2025 UK LIVE DATES
Supporting Frank Black:
06 February: Palladium, London
Headline Tour:
06 March: Deaf Institute, Manchester
07 March: King Tut’s, Glasgow
08 March: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
10 March: Dead Wax, Birmingham
11 March: Louisiana, Bristol [SOLD OUT]
13 March: Green Door Store, Brighton
14 March: Oslo, London
15 March: Northumbria Uni, Newcastle
22 March: Limelight 2, Belfast
