Name: Willy Mason + Tenderness
Start: 2025-11-14T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Band on the Wall

Willy Mason is returning on tour to Europe in 2025. Since 2020 Willy has been touring with increasing regularity, steadily honing his live sound and playing.
His band includes Charlotte Anne Dole on drums (Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hammydown, Cult Objects, Empty Country) and Farley Glavin on bass (The Lemonheads, Killer Motorcycle). The trio have a tight and dynamic sound that allow them to easily move between all phases of Willy’s catalogue faithfully, with high energy and care. Willy has been steadily adding new songs to his shows. He is currently in the studio working on new recordings for an album.
Willy’s dark yet uplifting songs have endured and evolved for two decades. He is in yet another new phase, emboldened and galvanized by experience. This tour and accompanying album will be a culmination of his post pandemic work.
‘I want to provide people with places where they can emote and move freely, in safety,’ says Willy. ‘To feel connected with each other and experience the strength in that. Performance allows me to create and inhabit these places.
‘A lot of my new songs seem to be about love and perseverance. I’ve come to realise that songs can have the ability to conjure things, so I think this is a good thing.’
Tour support comes from Tenderness. Tenderness is the first solo music from Katy Beth Young (Peggy Sue, Deep Throat Choir). Her strange love songs take inspiration from country heroine Patsy Cline, the intricate noise of Yo La Tengo and Big Thief, and the opaque romance of digital technology.
The debut EP Heat Wave Love Song – made in the sun-drenched aftermath of a doomed romance – captures the beauty and cutting clarity of heartbreak. These are sad songs with flickers of desire and a little bit of side-eye. Across the three tracks, Young draws together all of her influences and past selves. Heat Wave Love Song was produced by Euan Hinshelwood (Younghusband, Cate Le Bon) at his VacantTV studio in South London, and features friends and collaborators including drummer Marian Li-Pino (La Luz), pedal steel player Harry Bohay (Aldous Harding, Sylvie), Clay Slade (Peggy Sue) on electric guitar and Hinshelwood on bass and synths.
This is a 10+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Price: £17 adv
Info/tickets: https://www.heymanchester.com/willy-mason-2#info