Provoker announce UK & EU tour in August
Today, Provoker announce their UK and EU headline tour in August. Bringing the macabre delights of their new album Mausoleum to life released earlier this year on YEAR0001, the tour is a seven-date run across strongholds including Moth Club in London and Berlin’s Kantine Am Berghain. Provoker will be supported by Irish rising star Dove Ellis across the UK, Ireland and France, following on from a triumphant tour across North America joined by RIP Swirl and Faerybabyy.
The new album from the Los Angeles-based trio sharpens the signature darkness of their discography, embedding vivid, otherworldly musings into distinctly human experiences. Mausoleum is one of the most communal and collaborative projects the band has been part of, executive produced by esteemed producer Kenneth Blume, fka Kenny Beats. The band’s Christian Crow Petty, Jonathon Lopez and Wil Palacios workshopped ideas together in studio sessions, born out of Petty’s thoughts of hauntings while holed up in an Echo Park attic. The album also enlists additional production from accomplished friends like Elliot Kozell (Yves Tumor, SZA), Simon Christensen (Gunna, Young Thug), Mikey Freedom Hart (Blood Orange, Lana Del Rey) and Zach Fogarty (Jean Dawson, Eyedress).
On Mausoleum, the shadowy entity of Provoker has grown even bolder, sharpened and synthesized with the addition of Blume’s production and other outside perspectives. Petty and Lopez’s songwriting partnership delves deeper on the album, shifting the focus from supernatural creatures and the sci-fi of their cinematic influences to a world more rooted in our own reality and the hauntings of our own personal struggles. Those revelations are couched in the band’s characteristically vivid imagery of grotesquerie but capture all-too-familiar feelings of the struggles of self-worth, relationships and redemption.
Mausoleum encompasses the various immersive stories of the visuals that accompanied their singles “Another Boy,” “Pantomime,” “Germaphobe” and “Tears in the Club,” – the latter two emerging as a double-feature video directed by Sean Stout.
For the uninitiated, Provoker began as a solo effort from musician Jonathon Lopez to create scores for horror and sci-fi films. After joining forces with vocalist and songwriter Christian Crow Petty and bassist Wil Palacios, Provoker released their debut full-length album as a trio with Body Jumper in 2021 and followed up with their 2023 release Demon Compass, which Alternative Press described as “uniquely emotional and addicting.” The band has toured alongside the likes of Viagra Boys, Beach Fossils, Turnover, glaive, TR/ST and spent 2024 touring across North America, including festival sets at Sound & Fury, Viva PHX and Substance Fest. See full UK and EU tour itinerary below.
PROVOKER UK & EU TOUR – AUGUST 2025
WITH SUPPORT FROM DOVE ELLIS
*= Support TBA
August 19 – Dublin, IE – Bello Bar
August 20 – Glasgow, UK – Stereo
August 21 – Manchester, UK – Yes (The Basement)
August 22 – London, UK – Moth Club
August 24 – Paris, FR – Rock En Seine
August 26 – Berlin, DE – Kantine Am Berghain *
August 27 – Stockholm, SE – Pelago *
Mausoleum tracklist
1. ‘Swarm of Flies’
2. ‘Tears In The Club’
3. ‘Prisoner of Love’
4. ‘Pantomime’
5. ‘Germaphobe’
6. ‘Another Boy’
7. ‘Gun2MyHead’
8. ‘Glow In The Dark’
9. ‘Mausoleum’
10. ‘Singing Gun’
11. ‘Replay’
