Photo Credit: Charlotte Patmore
Lauren Mayberry, the frontwoman for acclaimed electro-pop band CHVRCHES released her eagerly awaited debut solo album, Vicious Creature and announced a UK tour for March 2025.
Vicious Creature is both a startling new era in Mayberry’s artistry, and the culmination of two decades of life in a band that came before. Across its songs, she writes about sexuality and empowerment from a profoundly personal perspective for the very first time, reconnecting with the icons of her youth (Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey and Kathleen Hanna) as well as ‘90s British girl groups such as All Saints and Sugababes, whose music made a formative impact on her in the 2000s.
“So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition – something I really trained myself out of,” Mayberry says. “That's ultimately why you start making things – because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence, and recognise what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”
For her first full-length release outside of CHVRCHES, Mayberry sought freedom: from rules, expectations and preconceptions. Working with prolific producers like Greg Kurstin, Matthew Korma, Tobias Jesso Jr., Ethan Gruska and Dan McDougall, she accessed not only a new world of inspiration but the deep well of creativity she’s had within her all along.
Watch the video with Lauren to learn more about her favorite songs from the album, the UK tour, and what she listened to in 2024.
The tour kicked off with a hometown show at the legendary Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, before wrapping up at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Prior to the headline dates, Mayberry joined London Grammar for shows across the EU and UK before a major headline tour of North America in early 2025.
See all tour dates below.
North American headline tour 2025
1/28/25 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
1/29/25 - Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
1/31/25 - Soundwell - Salt Lake City, UT
2/1/25 - Gothic - Denver, CO
2/2/25 - Granada Theater - Lawrence, KS
2/3/25 - Fine Line - Minneapolis, MN
2/5/25 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL
2/7/25 - Concert Hall - Toronto, ON
2/8/25 - Electric City - Buffalo, NY
2/9/25 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
2/11/25 - Royale - Boston, MA
2/13/25 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
2/14/25 - Empire Live - Albany, NY
2/17/25 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
2/18/25 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
2/20/25 - Masquerade - Hell - Atlanta, GA
2/21/25 - The Underground - Charlotte, NC
2/22/25 - The Mil at Cannery Hall - Nashville, TN
2/24/25 - White Oak Downstairs - Houston, TX
2/25/25 - Granada - Dallas, TX
2/26/25 - Emo’s - Austin, TX
2/28/25 - Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ
3/2/25 - The Belasco - Los Angeles, CA
UK headline tour 2025
3/20/25 - Barrowland Ballroom - Glasgow, UK
3/21/25 - La Belle Angele - Edinburgh, UK
3/23/25 - 02 Academy 2 - Birmingham, UK
3/24/25 - Academy 2 - Manchester, UK
3/25/25 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK
3/26/25 - 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire - London, UK
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