Following a #3 chart position for their critically acclaimed new album ‘What Went Down’ which commanded a Top 20 chart position for four weeks, Foals can now confirm details of their first UK and Ireland arena tour including the band’s biggest headline show to date at OVO Arena Wembley:

Tickets for the show at, OVO Arena Wembley, will be available from 9am Friday October 9th through www.ssearena.co.uk & www.axs.com. Everything Everything have been confirmed as main support.

Foals’ thrillingly visceral return with the single also titled ‘What Went Down’ earned a flurry of Radio 1 support (Hottest Record in the World, Tune of the Week and Track of the Day) as it accelerated past 2.4 million views at YouTube.

That sense of Foals ascending to new creative peaks was intensified with the reaction that greeted the follow-up single ‘Mountain At My Gates’ and its ground-breaking GoPro interactive video which was directed by Nabil, as well as with ‘A Knife In The Ocean’ which received a World Record premiere on Beats 1 courtesy of Zane Lowe.

‘What Went Down’ is Foals’ fourth album after ‘Antidotes’ (2007, #3), ‘Total Life Forever’ (2010, #8) and ‘Holy Fire’ (2013, #2).

By the close of the year, the band’s critical reception had also continued to soar with a plethora of major honours including Best Live Act at the Q Awards, Best Single for ‘Inhaler’ at the NME Awards and Best Live Act at The Sun Bizarre Awards. As with ‘Total Life Forever’, ‘Holy Fire’ again earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination.

Foals consists of Yannis Philippakis (vocals/guitar), Jimmy Smith (guitar/keys), Walter Gervers (bass), Jack Bevan (drums) and Edwin Congreave (keys)

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