The Enemy have announced a huge homecoming show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘We’ll Live And Die In These Towns’.
The band will be headlining at the 10,000-capacity indoor arena at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Saturday March 20, 2027, their biggest show since they sold out the venue in 2008.
They have strong connections with the city, and today (May 4) they headlined the promotion party for Coventry City’s return to the Premier League after a 25-year absence, having already played on the pitch earlier in the season.
Tickets for the show next year go on sale at 10am on Friday (May 8) and you will be able to get yours here.
The Enemy frontman Tom Clarke has said: “We’re all incredibly excited to return to Coventry Arena in March. Last time we headlined that space it was a great night, but this time with the added buzz around Coventry City FC we expect the atmosphere will be even more emotionally charged. It has all the ingredients for an unforgettable, once in lifetime event.”
‘We’ll Live And Die In These Towns’ was released in July 2007 and went straight in at Number One in the UK charts. It sold over 300,000 copies and included the band’s signature songs ‘Had Enough’, ‘Away From Here’ and ‘You’re Not Alone’. They went on to win the Best New Band prize at the NME Awards the following year.
They had split up in 2016, before reforming in 2022 and embarking on a comeback tour alongside The Subways and The Holloways.
They released their fifth album ‘Social Disguises’, and their first in 11 years, in February, and Clarke said they tried to make it “in the same frame of mind that we made our first, as though we were making the follow-up to it”.
NME gave ‘We’ll Live And Die In These Towns’ a strong review back in 2007, writing: “There’s a buzz around this band that can’t be bought with hype or any other corrupt currency you care to mention, and this album has delivered on it. Where they go from here is up to them; next time around, they’ll have left the mean streets of Cov, and with them, the things that made this album so startling and special. But that’s in the future; right now, The Enemy are the gloriously untrendy sound of old-fashioned British rock’n’roll. Be thankful that they left the day jobs.”
