Nottingham will play a central role in Saves The Day’s long‑awaited UK return this November, as the New Jersey emo pioneers celebrate 25 years of Stay What You Are.
The anniversary tour kicks off 17 November in Bristol before rolling through London and Glasgow, with the Nottingham date penned in for Thursday, November 19 where they play Palais.
The tour wraps in Liverpool, where Saves The Day will headline the inaugural Loud & Clear Festival.
Released in 2001 via Vagrant Records, Stay What You Are was an unlikely crossover moment — a record that found mainstream attention without losing the raw nerve that made Saves The Day so vital. Chris Conley’s lyrics were a revelation: tender, grotesque, hyper‑specific and strangely universal, delivered with a literary edge that set the band apart from their peers.
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With Conley joined by Bryan Newman, Eben D’Amico, David Soloway and Ted Alexander — plus Rob Schnapf behind the desk — the album became a blueprint for the next generation. Its fingerprints are everywhere: Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Fall Out Boy, Paramore and countless others carried its DNA into the mid‑2000s explosion.
The five‑date UK run will see Saves The Day perform the album in full. Artist presale opens Tuesday 30 June at 10am BST, with general sale following Wednesday 1 July at the same time.
You can buy tickets direct from www.savestheday.com
