This autumn, Wunderhorse headline shows will see them step into bigger, iconic venues on their newly-announced UK tour, which include a stop at London’s O2 Academy Brixton and a sold out gig at Southampton’s 1865 on October 7th.
Debut album ‘Cub’ has taken on a life of its own since release, with sprawling, psychedelic numbers and sharp grunge refrains alike igniting Wunderhorse’s ever-growing audience. ‘Cub’’s campaign and the months following saw the four-piece graduate from playing in basements and pubs to filling Glastonbury’s Woodsies tent and selling out O2 Forum Kentish Town months in advance.
Across the mammoth tour leading up to and following ‘Cub’’s release, Slater and his bandmates – guitarist Harry Fowler, drummer Jamie Staples and bassist Peter Woodin – gradually and naturally became a fully-formed band and left the solo era of Wunderhorse behind.
As their crowds have grown exponentially in both scale and ardency, and ‘Cub’’s tracks have reached the status of cultural reference points within the younger contingents of their fanbase, it seems harder than ever to recall a time when frontman Jacob Slater believed that his career was over before his twenties had even begun.
Having burned himself out as the teenage frontman of the much-hyped but ultimately ill-fated punk outfit Dead Pretties, Jacob retired to Cornwall to repair the damage that he had caused himself.
It was whilst working as a surf instructor on the UK’s south western perimeter that Jacob rekindled his love of songwriting: this time spinning introspective, considered compositions which transcended his younger years and went on to form the foundations of Wunderhorse.
In the summer Wunderhorse took to the stage at Reading + Leeds, hot on the heels of a Cornwall homecoming for Jacob at Boardmasters festival. Earlier in 2024, the band shared a co-headline spot alongside Mercury-nominated duo Jockstrap at Dot to Dot festival.
Tickets for Wunderhorse at The 1865 are sold out. Check here for returns.
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