The Blow Monkeys To Release Thirteenth Studio Album Ahead of UK Tour

British pop-soul group The Blow Monkeys have announced they will release their 13^th studio album ‘Birdsong’ on 15^th August 2025, followed by a ten-date UK tour in October.

The album’s release will be the first since the group signed to Creation Youth, the British independent record label launched by Alan McGee – the Creation Records founder who famously signed artists like Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine – and producer and Killing Joke bassist Martin ‘Youth’ Glover.

Recorded at Paul Weller’s Black Barn Studios in Surrey, the album was produced by The Blow Monkeys’ lead singer Robert Howard (aka Dr Robert), who is backed throughout Birdsong’s ten-tracks by fellow founding members Neville Henry (sax), Mick Anker (bass), with Crispin Taylor on drums and additional musicians Mick Talbot, Gina Foster and Steve Sidelnyk.

Speaking about the catalyst for the new album, Dr Robert said, “Youth is one of our closest neighbours up in the mountains near Granada, close to where I live, and I often pop in for a cup of tea. One time I was up there and I bumped into Alan McGee. I was sitting strumming an acoustic guitar and he asked if I could play Buick McKane, the old T Rex number. I did, which I think sealed the deal! Alan asked me to write and record a “brilliant Blow Monkeys records”. I knew what he meant. The songs just poured out, almost without effort, which is always a good sign. It’s a very ‘up’ album, and deliberately so.”

McGee added, “The album they’ve just recorded for Creation Youth at Paul Weller’s studio is as good as anything Dr Robert did back in the day. It’s the original line-up bar the drummer, so it has that unique sound that’s unmistakably The Blow Monkeys. I love this band!”

The release of Birdsong will be preceded by the release of its title track as a single on 2^nd May 2025.

After making their debut over 40 years ago, The Blow Monkeys became household names when classic singles ‘Digging Your Scene’ and ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way’ became worldwide hits and their cover of Leslie Gore’s 1963 song ‘You Don’t Own Me’ featured on the biggest selling soundtrack of all time, ‘Dirty Dancing’.

But there was always so much more going on with these soulful troubadours, with them possessing a relentless desire to move forward, collaborate, to be socially engaged and to have something to contribute.

Back in the ‘80s they worked with people as varied as Curtis Mayfield, Paul Weller, Cheb Khaled and even Jamaican Toaster EEK-a-Mouse. Dr Robert even took time out to release one of the UK’s first home grown House records with ‘Wait’, his top 5 duet with Chicago soul diva Kym Maselle.

‘Birdsong’ Album Track listing:

01 – The Penny Drops

02 – Birdsong

03 – Walk On, Nothing Is Lost

04 – Long Lost Child

05 – Giving Up The Ghost

06 – Shadowplay

07 – Rivers To The Soul

08 – All At Sea

09 – Running From Love

10 – This Fleeting House

The Blow Monkeys will follow the release of Birdsong on 15^th August 2025 with a ten-date co-headline UK tour with The Christians. Tickets are available from www.theblowmonkeys.com.

 The full list of tour dates is as follow:

Oct 11^{th –} Gateshead, The Glasshouse

Oct 13^{th –} Glasgow, Clyde Theatre

Oct 14^{th –} Edinburgh, Queen’s Hall

Oct 16^{th –} Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall

Oct 18^{th –} Manchester, RNCM Theatre

Oct 19^{th –} Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall

Oct 21^{st –} Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion

Oct 22^{nd –} Watford, Colosseum

Oct 23^{rd –} London, Shepherds Bush Empire

Oct 24^{th –} Fareham, Live Theatre

Feature Image Photo Credit: Michele Siedner

The Blow Monkeys new album ‘Birdsong’ is released on 15th August 2025. 

For more information visit: https://www.theblowmonkeys.com/