Panic Shack announce 2025 UK and European tour with riotous new single 'Girl Band Starter Pack' – NME

The Cardiff band will play one of their biggest headline gigs to date at London’s Electric Brixton
Panic Shack have announced their 2025 UK and European tour with a riotous new single ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’.
The Cardiff band are currently on tour, and have announced a brand new leg from October to December this year.
Along with shows at Manchester Academy 2 and Brighton’s Chalk, the group will host one of their biggest headline shows at London’s Brixton Electric on December 4. Panic Shack will then round off their tour with a hometown gig at Cardiff’s Tramshed on December 5.
To announce their tour, the band released ‘Girl Band Starter Pack’, which they said was “the title of our inspiration playlist on Spotify when we first started the band.”
“It’s had many deaths and rebirths but has been with us since the start, so it’s quite special to us,” they said. “Not only because we’ve watched it morph into a certified banger (it was once named ‘Banger Potential’) but because it personifies our friendship and the electricity we feel when we’re together, whether that’s creating, playing or simply just grabbing a coffee … which as the song foretells, usually leads to a voddy.”
Pre-sale tickets are available now, and general sale will commence tomorrow (May 9) at 10am BST here. See the full run of Panic Shack dates below.

MAY
8 – The Castle & Falcon – Birmingham
9 – FOCUS Wales – Wrexham
10 – The Wardrobe – Leeds
11 – Cluny – Newcastle
13 – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow – SOLD OUT
14 – Yellow Arch Studios – Sheffield – SOLD OUT
15 – Arts Club – Liverpool
16 – Band on the Wall – Manchester – SOLD OUT
18 – The Bullingdon – Oxford
19 – Papillon – Southampton
20 – Craufurd Arms – Milton Keynes
22 – Thekla – Bristol – SOLD OUT
23 – In It Together Festival – Port Talbot
25 – Corn Exchange – Newport
28 – The Garage – London
JULY
10 – 2000 Trees Festival – Cheltenham
18 – Homestead Festival – Portishead
OCTOBER
9 – Where Else – Margate
10 – Chalk – Brighton
11 – New Shiny Festival – Cambridge
12 – SWX – Bristol
15 – Foundry – Sheffield
16 – Academy 2 – Manchester
17 – Garage – Glasgow
18 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
NOVEMBER
19 – Trix Bar – Antwerp, BE
20 – Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL
21 – Molotow – Hamburg, DE
22 – Yuca – Cologne, DE
24 – Lark – Berlin, DE
25 – Orange House – Munich, DE
28 – Festival Les Femmes S’en Mêlent – Paris, FR
30 – Wurlitzer – Madrid, ES
DECEMBER
1 – Upload – Barcelona, ES
4 – Electric Brixton – London
5 – Tramshed – Cardiff
We last spoke to Panic Shack back in 2023, where the band spoke to us about accusations made on TikTok that they were “cosplaying” their working-class background.
“I feel like the common denominator here is that people still show misogyny towards women making quirky, alternative music,” said bassist Emily Smith.
“Following the TikTok drama, there were moments where I was really doubting everything that we were doing as a band,” vocalist Sarah Harvey said, and guitarist Romi Lawrence told us “It really did put a seed of doubt in your mind. We’d never experienced hate like that before because we are like an echo chamber. We speak to an alternative audience, so the masses coming after us was quite scary.
“We are just here to have fun!”
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