Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album with an epic world tour and exclusive new reissue. The first leg of the global headline run gets underway with North American dates beginning March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC and then performing 20 more shows including a very special homecoming performance set for May 10 at Philadelphia, PA’s Union Transfer. September will see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah crossing the Atlantic for a series of European dates in Belgium, Ireland, France, and the United Kingdom including a two-night stand at London’s EartH (September 19-20). The tour then heads Down Under for dates in Australia and New Zealand beginning November 5 at Sydney’s Metro Theatre. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, November 22. Additional dates – including further European shows and visits to Japan, Central and South America – will be announced soon. For complete details and ticket information, please visit cyhsy.com/live.

The 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will further be commemorated with a special new reissue, arriving on limited-edition vinyl LP early next year on the band’s own label via Secretly Distribution, the defiantly independent home of Alec Ounsworth’s music for over two decades. The celebration officially gets underway with today’s premiere of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s original 2004 version of the fan favorite, “Heavy Metal,” available everywhere now. Recorded live at Pawtucket, RI’s Machines with Magnets Studios, the newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.” 

Tour Dates:

MARCH

31 – Washington DC – The Atlantis

APRIL

1 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle

2 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West

4 – Ft. Worth, TX – Tulip’s

5 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn

7 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom

8 – Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theater

9 – San Francisco, CA – Independent

11 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater

12 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café

13 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret

15 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge

16 – Denver, CO – Bluebird   

MAY

2 – St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Hall

3 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall

4 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme

6 – Toronto, ON – Great Hall

7 – Albany, NY – The Egg

8 – Somerville, MA – Crystal Ballroom

9 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

10 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer

SEPTEMBER

14 – Leffinge, BE – Leffingeleuren Festival †

16 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory

18 – Paris, FR – Gaité Lyrique

19 – London, UK – EartH

20 – London, UK – EartH

NOVEMBER

5 – Sydney, AU – Metro Theatre

7 – Melbourne, AU – Northcote Theatre

8 – Brisbane, AU – The Triffid

11 – Auckland, NZ – The Tuning Fork

† FESTIVAL APPEARANCE

Photo Credit: Matt Barrick

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11.20.2024