UK Tour Supports
- Feb 28, 2025
- 1 min read
We are mega stoked to have INME as special guests for our UK tour in May! Hard, heavy as balls and proper road warriors...
Opening the show we have our brothers in AIRSTRIKE - pure swagger rock n' roll just how mamma used to make...
It's an honour to have these dudes and their crew on the road with us, if you are new to them make sure you get down and show them how the MW family rolls.
This is a brand new show for 2025, unplayed songs from Earth To Grace plus some classics, we're warning ya now, it's gonna hit HARD.
Team MW x
(Leeds and Newcastle are heading for sellout soon...)
Coming back to this announcement after sharing it with my rock music network this week — the response has been exactly what you'd expect from a fanbase that has been waiting for exactly this kind of tour. The combination of Massive Wagons at the top of their game, INME returning to the road, and AIRSTRIKE bringing fresh energy to the bill has produced a level of genuine excitement that most tour announcements don't generate. For the complete remaining toolkit that supports this kind of active live music lifestyle — a Slime RNG guide and a Mini War reference are both bookmarked for the younger fans in my circle who are coming to their first proper rock shows on this tour. A camping…
Reading this announcement and thinking about the Earth To Grace album as a live proposition — the record has a real arc to it that suggests the band has thought carefully about how a setlist built around it would flow, and that kind of structural thinking tends to produce shows with a genuine dramatic shape rather than just a collection of songs played in sequence. The best live shows feel like they're telling a story across the full running time, and Massive Wagons have the catalog depth now to construct something genuinely compelling around the new material. Adding INME and AIRSTRIKE to that structure means the evening has a proper three-act shape before the headliner even takes the stage. For…
The venue selection for this tour deserves a specific mention because whoever is routing this run clearly understands the geography of the UK rock fanbase — the mix of cities covers the regional scenes that have historically supported all three of these bands rather than just hitting the obvious London and Manchester anchors. Newcastle in particular has a rock audience that punches well above its weight for a city its size, and any band that plays there with genuine energy will be rewarded with one of the best crowd responses on the entire tour. The regional UK rock scene is one of the most underappreciated live music ecosystems in the world and this tour is going to remind people of…
AIRSTRIKE as the opening act is a choice that rewards people who arrive early, which is something that more tour promoters should think about — when the opening act is genuinely worth seeing, it changes the whole atmosphere of the evening because the room fills up properly before the headliner rather than having a half-empty venue for the first two acts. I've seen too many shows where the support acts played to a near-empty room because the audience treated them as background noise, and this lineup feels like it's been designed to prevent exactly that. All three bands deserve a full room and I hope audiences show up accordingly. For the creative and documentation side of following a tour as…
The timing of this tour in relation to the Earth To Grace album cycle is interesting from a music industry perspective — touring in support of a record that has had time to settle with the fanbase rather than going out immediately on release means the audience arrives already knowing the songs, which produces a completely different energy in the room. Massive Wagons have always seemed to understand the relationship between recorded music and live performance better than most bands at their level, and the decision to build this tour around a bill that feels like an event rather than just a promotional exercise reflects that understanding. For the social and community side of the UK rock live music scene,…