This Spring, Glass Animals announced a mammoth 44-date tour, taking the four-piece band across North America, Europe and UK, kicking off in the USA this August and concluding at London’s 20,000-capacity O2 Arena on 7 November 2024. But Glass Animals wanted super fans to hear the record for the first time live and last month embarked on a global pop-up tour, playing intimate venues in Mexico, Indonesia, California and Australia. The band have since announced a London pop up show at EartH in Hackney, taking place on 11 June, where they will play new songs for the first time. Revealing first single ‘Creatures in Heaven’ earlier this Spring, the song was a first glimpse into a sublime record telling ten intimate love stories, set against the backdrop of the vast universe.
I Love You So F***ing Much is the follow-up to 2020’s critically revered Dreamland, which sold over 12 million copies globally and gave life to ‘Heat Waves’, the record-breaking song that became the biggest international hit from a British band in almost 30 years and is now Diamond Certified in the United States. It was the first song to reach No.1 with a single writer and producer since Pharrell’s ‘Happy,’ and led to the pop world’s biggest acts, including Florence Welch, all wanting to work with Dave. But the birth of I Love You So F***ing Much was rooted in an existential crisis. Dave found himself struggling to make sense of this newfound global stardom, having watched it all happen while the world was in lockdown. “Life can change dramatically, but sometimes you aren’t able to change as quickly on a personal level. You end up feeling like a spectator. And then you are asked and expected to be a certain type of person, a different person. But…I wasn’t sure how. It confused me to the point of not knowing who I was or if anything was real.” It took being stranded on a cliff in a wooden house on stilts during one of California’s biggest storms in history to push that feeling into a full existential crisis. In forced isolation, watching trees tumble down mountains and assuming “death was coming,” Dave began asking questions of himself, of the universe and of the human experience: namely, love. As he came to accept himself as an introvert, Dave realised that “human connection and the love between us is much bigger, more important, and more complex than anything else”
1 November – Glasgow – OVO Hydro
2 November – Manchester – Co-Op Live
3 November – Nottingham – Motorpoint Arena
5 November – Cardiff – Utilita Arena
7 November – London – The O2 Arena
