Sister Ray Davies - Announce First Ever UK Tour - April 2026
- Desh Kapur
- Feb 25
- 2 min read
SISTER RAY DAVIES
Announce first ever UK tour
The Muscle Shoals shoegaze duo announce their first ever UK tour
They play headline shows and support slots with Chapterhouse and Acid Mothers Temple in April..
Debut album Holy Island is out now via Sonic Cathedral and Well Kept Secret
Alabama duo Sister Ray Davies have announced a UK tour.
They follow the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album Holy Island with a series of headline shows in April 2026, as well as supports with reformed shoegaze legends Chapterhouse and Japanese psych trailblazers Acid Mothers Temple.
Sister Ray Davies play the following shows:
April 17 – Nottingham – Billy Bootleggers (with Swallowtail)
April 18 – Coventry – Just Dropped In (free entry show)
April 19 – Todmorden – The Golden Lion
April 21 – Newcastle – The Cluny 2 (supporting Acid Mothers Temple)
April 22 – Leeds – Headrow House
April 23 – Glasgow – Classic Grand (supporting Chapterhouse)
April 24 – Wendover – Real Magic Music at The Legion
April 25 – Manchester – YES (supporting Chapterhouse)
April 26 – Bedford – Esquires
April 27 – Oxford – The Library
April 28 – London – The Social (co-headline with The Dreaming Spires)
April 29 – London – Islington Assembly Hall (supporting Chapterhouse)
April 30 – Brighton – Alphabe
All shows are on sale now and tickets are available here.
Sister Ray Davies is Adam Morrow and Jamie Sego.
They met when Adam played on sessions at Jamie’s Portside Sound studio (the former Muscle Shoals Sound Studio B) for artists such as John Paul White, Belle Adair and Donnie Fritts and they realised they had much in common, both personally and musically. “We were mixing other work and always joked, ‘Well, if this was a shoegaze song we’d do this’,” reveals Adam. “It all felt so intuitive.”
Jamie says how the shoegaze DNA run through many of his formative musical experiences – “buying a Starflyer 59 CD as an adolescent in the Bible Belt, being thrilled by the chainsaw guitars and girl group melodies of the Ramones, being enamoured with fuzz, tremolo and reverb of ’60s psych compilations” – while Adam points to the likes of Slowdive, Ride, Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo and Talk Talk.
“It finally dawned on us,” says Adam, “why don’t we lean into the kind of music we love listening to? How many times do we have to blast Souvlaki on the studio monitors before it clicks? We actually made the record before we had a band name.”
That name – a mix of The Velvet Underground song and The Kinks’ frontman, which originated on a list of tongue-in-cheek monikers Sego had drawn up with an old roommate – is actually a great signifier of the duo’s mix of Americanness and Anglophilia.
Their debut album Holy Island – a vibes-based concept album about the island off the coast of Northumberland – was released on November 14 via Sonic Cathedral and Well Kept Secret. It’s currently riding high in the Official Charts’ Independent Albums Breakers and Album Downloads charts and the reviews have been very positive.
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