Herbie May - Releases Debut Single - Bleeding/Shoelaces + Tours With Generation X In November

Herbie May

Releases debut double A side single Bleeding/Shoelaces - November 7th

Heads out on tour supporting Generation X throughout November

“It’s terrifying… but necessary.”

The Lounge Society guitarist Herbie May has announced a record and a series of solo gigs supporting XGENERATIONX as they tour the UK in November.

Herbie’s solo sound is stripped down, raw and emotionally intelligent - think Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett, but also older artists: ‘It’s Lou Reed meets Orange Juice!’ squealed someone, and they’re maybe not wrong. You can also hear influences as varied as The The, Gram Parsons and Jackson C Frank in the mix although this music is also completely its own thing. Herbie releases his debut double A side single Bleeding/Shoelaces (Produced by legendary producer of the Strokes Gordon Raphael) to coincide with the tour.

‘I’ve spent 18 months not drinking, not taking any substances, not going out very much. Just reading and thinking and trying to make sense of the way we’re forced to exist now. These songs are the first results of that process. And then I got this chance to play them live. And it’s a terrifying idea but also absolutely necessary.”

Herbie is keen to stress that this is in no way the end of The Lounge Society.

“We’ve been writing and recording for a second album and have a couple of songs coming out more or less imminently. We’ve been recording with Jolyon Thomas at The Libertines studio (The Albion Rooms) and I think that as a band we’re tighter and that when we get back out there we’re going to blow a few minds. And the boys have been completely behind me doing my own stuff. I wouldn’t do it otherwise.”

The Lounge Society came to prominence during the pandemic with the single Generation Game which was followed by EP Silk for the Starving and the album Tired of Liberty all produced by the legendary Dan Carey and released on Carey’s label Speedy Wunderground.

The Herbie’s solo single is released on new label Red Licorice (distributed by Code 7) on November 7

The XGENERATIONX tour – a band led by original Generation X drummer Mark Laff and featuring Steve Norman from Spandau Ballet as well as Elizabeth Westwood on vocals – begins on Tuesday November 11.

The full XGENERATIONX tour dates with Herbie May as support are:

11/11/25 - Trades Club, Hebden Bridge

12/11/25 – Oran Mor, Glasgow

13/11/25 – The Cluny, Newcastle

18/11/25 – Social, Hull

19/11/25 – Future Yard, Birkenhead

20/11/25 – 100 Club, London

23/11/25 Arts Centre, Colchester

Tickets from venues or via www.xgenerationx.com