On Thursday, March 5th, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams announced her first solo tour in support of debut album, Petals for Armor.
The singer released “Simmer,” the first single from the album on January 22nd, and the entire album is scheduled to drop on May 8 and is available for pre-order now. Her solo endeavor comes after Paramore, which formed in 2004, announced on September 4th that they were going on hiatus.
The tour kicks off on May 13 in Amsterdam, with North American dates slated to begin on May 28 with a show in Seattle. The outing is scheduled to wrap up on June 29 in Nashville, where the singer grew up; Arlo Parks will open the shows.
“Wow. I am going on tour. Myself. It’s not Paramore and truthfully, it’s just a little terrifying,” she said in a statement. “But if I know anything, it’s that there’s no safer place (besides at home with my dog) than to be in a room, in front of the people who’ve grown up singing my lungs out for. There was a time I thought I wouldn’t tour Petals for Armor. What a joke. I must.”
“The first run of shows is going to be hot, sweaty, and intimate,” Williams explained. “My brand-newly-formed band I will be playing rooms that Paramore outgrew a decade ago. It’s going to be so satisfying to feel the energy of a crowd that close again, especially while performing songs that feel so vital for me; songs I have never performed before for an audience.”
Tickets for the Petals for Armour Tour go on sale March 13 at 10 a.m. local time. For fans who preorder the record by 10 p.m. local March 8, you’ll have access to resale tickets for U.S. dates beginning March 10 at 10 a.m. local, and ending March 12 at 10 p.m. local.
Check out Hayley’s solo tour dates below:
May 13 — Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max
May 15 — Brighton, UK @ The Beach
May 16 — London, UK @ Electric Brixton
May 19 — Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall
May 28 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
May 30 — San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
June 1 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
June 3 — Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
June 5 — Dallas, TX @ HiFi
June 6 — Houston, TX @ House of Blues
June 8 — Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
June 10 — Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
June 15 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
June 17 — Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
June 18 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia
June 20 — Boston, MA @ House of Blues
June 22 — Toronto, ON @ Rebel
June 24 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
June 26 — Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
June 27 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
June 29 — Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
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