Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are set to celebrate 20 years of its self-titled debut album with a world tour and a reissue campaign.
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In 2025, the band – now the solo project of Alec Ounsworth – commemorates the release of ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’, which launched the band into indie rock stardom in 2005 with singles ‘Is This Love?’ and ‘In This Home On Ice’. The album was released a year later in the UK via Wichita Recordings.
Since then, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have amassed a cult following through the 2010s and beyond, with their last album being 2021’s ‘New Fragility’.
In a press release, it’s revealed that the band’s world tour will begin at the end of March in Washington, DC, followed by multiple dates that include a homecoming set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The tour will also include dates in Europe – notably, a two-night engagement at EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) in London – along with Australia and New Zealand. Dates in other countries will be announced by the band soon.
The 20th anniversary of ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’ will be issued independently by the band via Secretly Distribution – it comes with a previously unreleased version of ‘Heavy Metal’ recorded in 2004, and it’s now available on streaming platforms. See tour dates below.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah in 2006. CREDIT: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images
The tour dates for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s album anniversary tour are:
MARCH
31 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
APRIL
1 – Carrboro, North Carolina – Cat’s Cradle
2 – Atlanta, Georgia – Terminal West
4 – Ft. Worth, Texas – Tulip’s
5 – Austin, Texas – Scoot Inn
7 – Phoenix, Arizona – Crescent Ballroom
8 – Los Angeles, California – Regent Theater
9 – San Francisco, California – Independent
11 – Portland, Oregon – Aladdin Theater
12 – Seattle, Washington – Crocodile Café
13 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
15 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Urban Lounge
16 – Denver, Colorado – Bluebird
MAY
2 – St. Paul, Minnesota – Amsterdam Bar and Hall
3 – Chicago, Illinois – Thalia Hall
4 – Grand Rapids, Michigan – Pyramid Scheme
6 – Toronto, Ontario – Great Hall
7 – Albany, New York – The Egg
8 – Somerville, Massachusetts – Crystal Ballroom
9 – New York, New York – Webster Hall
10 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Union Transfer
SEPTEMBER
14 – Leffinge, Belgium – Leffingeleuren Festival †
16 – Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
18 – Paris, France – Gaité Lyrique
19 – London, UK – EartH
20 – London, UK – EartH
NOVEMBER
5 – Sydney, Australia – Metro Theatre
7 – Melbourne, Australia – Northcote Theatre
8 – Brisbane, Australia – The Triffid
11 – Auckland, New Zealand – The Tuning Fork
On ‘Heavy Metal’, Ounsworth says in a press statement: “I didn’t think this original version of ‘Heavy Metal’ sat very well on the album once we started recording some of the later songs (‘The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth,’ ‘Is This Love?,’ etc.) so I decided the song should be changed even though the original (as a standalone single) had always worked. Now that I listen to the original ‘Heavy Metal’ remixed and mastered, I realize it very well could (should?) have been on the album itself.
“I really like both versions of ‘Heavy Metal’ but 20 years later I think I’ve come to appreciate this one a little more. The rest of the album has this excitement too of course but the earliest songs speak even more to a certain innocence around that time which I try hard not to forget.”
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