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SHAME ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR & RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO, “QUIET LIFE”

Posted on 07/08/2025

 

“‘Cutthroat’ is an in-your-face introduction to the what’s to come. It’s steeped in attitude, with blown out yell-sing vocals from Steen.” — Paste

 

Today, shame announce a 2026 North American tour and release “Quiet Life,” the second single/video from their new album Cutthroat, out September 5th via Dead Oceans. Following an EU/UK tour kicking off in September, the band will bring their legendary live show to North American in January, making stops in Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more. A full list of dates is below, and tickets go on sale Friday, July 11th at 10am local time.

On the heels of title track, “Cutthroat,” praised by Brooklyn Vegan as “a fun, in-your-face riff rock banger,” “Quiet Life,” is a snarling rockabilly track in the vein of The Gun Club and The Cramps. Of the track, vocalist Charlie Steen says: “‘Quiet Life’ is about someone in a shitty relationship. It’s about the judgment they receive and the struggle that they have to go through, trying to understand the conflict they face, of wanting a better life… but being stuck.” In the song’s opening lines, Steen sings, “Spent too much time on my knees. / Round here nothing’s good for me, / But I still can’t make the choice to leave.” The video, directed by Pedro Takahashi and produced by FRIEND, features the band and friends venting their pent-up frustrations in a run-down office building.

WATCH THE “QUIET LIFE” VIDEO

Cutthroat is shame at their blistering best; an unapologetic new album made with Grammy winning producer John Congleton at the helm. “It’s about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites,” says Steen. “Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now.”

Still in their twenties and having proved themselves several times over since their 2018 debut, Songs of Praise, the five childhood friends – singer Charlie Steen, guitarists Sean Coyle-Smith and Eddie Green, bassist Josh Finerty and drummer Charlie Forbes – went into Cutthroat ready to create a new Ground Zero. Stamped throughout with shame’s trademark sense of humour, the album takes on the big issues of today and gleefully toys with them. Holed up in Salvation Studios in Brighton, they cast a merciless eye on themes of conflict and corruption; hunger and desire; lust, envy and the omnipresent shadow of cowardice.

Musically, too, the record plays with visceral new ideas. Making electronic music on tour for fun, Coyle-Smith had previously seen the loops he was crafting as a separate entity to the things he wrote for shame. Then, he realised, maybe they didn’t have to be. “This time, anything could go if it sounded good and you got it right,” he says. This cheeky self-awareness, too, is important. The result is an album that revels in the idiosyncrasies of life, raising an eyebrow and asking the ugly questions that so often get tactfully brushed over. But the one answer that Cutthroat gives with a resounding flourish is that, right now, shame have never sounded better.

 

Shame Cutthroat U.S. & Canadian Tour Poster

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WATCH THE “CUTTHROAT” VIDEO

SHAME TOUR DATES

Sun. Sept. 28 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale

Mon. Sept. 29 – Antwerp, BE @ TRIX

Tue. Sept. 30 – Cologne, DE Gebäude 9

Thu. Oct. 2 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg

Fri. Oct. 3 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje

Sat. Oct. 4 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust

Mon. Oct. 6 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumphuset

Tue. Oct. 7- Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret AS

Wed. Oct. 8 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan

Fri. Oct. 10 – Helsinki, FI @ Korjaamo

Sat. Oct. 11 – Tallinn, EE @ Paavli Kultuurivabrik

Sun. Oct. 12 – Riga, LV @ Palladium

Tue. Oct. 14 – Vilnius, LT @ Kultūra

Wed. Oct. 15 – Warsaw, PL @ NIEBO

Thu. Oct. 16 – Berlin, DE @ SO36

Sat. Oct. 18 – Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory

Sun. Oct. 19 – Bratislava Nov. a, SK @ CverNov. ka

Mon. Oct. 20 – Vienna, AU @ Chelsea

Wed. Oct. 22 – Zagreb, HR @ Club Mochvara

Thu. Oct. 23 – Belgrade, RS @ Zappa Baza

Fri. Oct. 24 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5

Sun. Oct. 26 – Istanbul, TK @ Blind

Tue. Oct. 28 – Bucharest, RO Control

Wed. Oct. 29 – Cluj, RO @ Atelier

Thu. Oct. 30 – Budapest, HU A38

Fri. Oct. 31 – Munich, DE @ Strom

Sun. Nov. 2 – Zurich, CH @ Plaza

Mon. Nov. 3 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali

Wed. Nov. 5 – Lyon, FR @ L’Epicerie Moderne

Thu. Nov. 6 – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie

Fri. Nov. 7 – Lille, FR @ L’Aeronef

Sun. Nov. 9 – Southampton, UK @ 1865

Mon. Nov. 10 – Leeds, UK @ Project House

Wed. Nov. 12 – Dublin, IE @ National Stadium

Thu. Nov. 13 – Cork, IE @ Cypress Avenue

Sat. Nov. 15 – Manchester, UK @ New Century

Sun. Nov. 16 – Glasgow, UK @ The Garage

Mon. Nov. 17 – Bristol, UK @ SWX

Wed. Nov. 19 – Brighton, UK @ Chalk

Thu. Nov. 20 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

Thu. Jan. 15 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar

Fri. Jan. 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church

Sat. Jan. 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

Mon. Jan. 19 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

Tue-Jan. 20 – Portsmouth, NH @ The Press Room

Wed. Jan. 21 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda

Fri. Jan. 23 – Toronto, ON @Phoenix Concert Theatre

Sat. Jan. 24 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch

Sun. Jan. 25 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

Tue. Jan. 27 – St. Paul, MN @Turf Club

Thu. Jan. 29 – Oklahoma City, OK @Beer City Music Hall

Fri. Jan. 30 – Dallas, TX @Sons of Hermann Hall

Sat. Jan. 31 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk

Tue. Feb. 3 – Tucson, AZ @ La Rosa

Thu. Feb. 5 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah

Fri. Feb. 6 – Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room

Sat. Feb. 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Belasco Theatre

Tue. Feb. 10 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

Thu. Feb. 12 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

Fri. Feb. 13 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos

Sat. Feb. 14 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl