The Wombats have announced new UK and Irish tour dates set for December.

The band will come to Newcastle, Dublin and Belfast beginning on December 5. Pre-sale kicks off on March 26 at 9 a.m., with general sales starting on the 28th. They released their sixth studio album Oh! The Ocean in February. Their UK and European tour begins on March 28.

“The album offers up some internal questions like: why are my head and body disconnected all the time?” said vocalist Matthew Murphy. “Why am I incapable at times of seeing any form of beauty in the world or in others? Why do I expect the world to conform to my will? Why do I never stop and smell the flowers? How am I conscious?”

The three-piece will also appear at festivals over the summer like Kendal Calling, Neighbourhood Weekender, Y Not? festival, The Big Feastival and Boardmasters. They created their most recent album in 2024 with producer John Congleton of St. Vincent, Wallows and Death Cab for Cutie. The title is inspired by a beach vacation Murphy took with his family.

“I’ve been to many beaches and seas and coasts over the years but for some reason it felt like the first time I had ever seen it and was truly present,” he said. “There was this revelation that I had been living a life caught up in my own head, or in some kind of racing helmet or with blinkers on. It was really a potent experience. I felt like I saw everything new for the first time, and was aware that I had been so selfish to not take in how crazy the world and life is. I’d been caught up in my own BS for way too long.”

Tickets for The Womabat’s new tour dates are available here.