Martha Wainwright announces 2025 tour to mark 20 years of her debut album
She has also announced a vinyl release of the album for the first time ever.
Martha Wainwright has announced a 2025 tour to mark the 20th anniversary of her self-titled debut album, as well as the record’s first ever vinyl release.
The album will be released on a yet to be confirmed date next Spring and will feature unheard tracks, outtakes and “early material from that 10-year period of discovery that led to my first record”.
A tour which sees her play the record in full will then kick off at The Apex in Bury St Edmunds on May 27, 2025, before traversing the length of the UK and moving over to Ireland for a show at Dublin’s The Button Factory on June 7. You can check out the dates in full below.
MAY 2025
27 – Bury St Edmunds, The Apex
28 – Stroud, Subscription Rooms
29 – Worthing, Pavilion Theatre
30 – London, Union Chapel
31 – Manchester, New Century Hall
JUNE 2025
1 – Leeds, City Varieties Music Hall
3 – Sunderland, The Fire Station
4 – Edinburgh, The Queens Hall
6 – Belfast, Mandela Hall
7 – Dublin, The Button Factory
Wainwright said: “20 years ago my life as an artist took shape when my first record was released. In many ways that record defined me, as well as launched me into a now over 20 year long career that has made me who I am.
She continued: “It was after 10 years of playing in bars, making cassettes and EPs to sell at my shows, singing backup for my brother Rufus, falling in love and out of love, practising, writing, singing until I could barely sing anymore, partying, playing with musicians and listening to great artists, working with my ex-husband in the studio for 2 years, all that created this first record.”