Hard-Fi are making their long-awaited return with their first studio album in 15 years, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever, set for release on June 19th via V2 Records. Alongside the new record, the Staines quartet have announced a trio of huge December UK headline shows and a busy schedule of 2026 summer festival appearances.
Fans can already listen to the comeback’s first single, ‘They Ain’t Your Friends’, which is out now and targets the fake allegiances of the online world and modern music industry hypocrisies. The band will be taking their fresh material to major outdoor events throughout the year, including a headline slot at Stockton Calling, plus performances at Kendal Calling, Y Not Festival, and Victorious.
The December headline tour will see the band taking to some of the country’s biggest indoor stages. Tickets will go on general sale on Friday, March 13th at 10.00am, while fans who pre-order the album via the band’s official store can access a pre-sale beginning on Wednesday, March 11th at 10.00am.
UK Headline Tour Dates
- Thursday 3rd December – London, O2 Academy Brixton
- Friday 4th December – Birmingham, O2 Institute
- Saturday 5th December – Manchester, O2 Ritz
2026 Festival Dates
- Saturday 4th April – Stockton Calling (Headliner)
- Saturday 25th July – Kirkstall Abbey Leeds
- Thursday 30th July – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
- Friday 31st July – Kendal Calling, Cumbria
- Friday 28th August – Victorious, Portsmouth
- Saturday 29th August – Camper Calling, Warwickshire
Hard-Fi’s festival schedule promises a packed summer for the band, kicking off with a major headline slot at Stockton Calling in April. As the warmer months arrive, they will bring their revitalised sound and classic anthems to some of the UK’s most beloved outdoor events, including a late-July double-header at Y Not Festival and Cumbria’s Kendal Calling. The festival run continues through August, culminating in highly anticipated appearances at Victorious in Portsmouth and Warwickshire’s Camper Calling, giving fans across the country ample opportunity to catch their dynamic live show.
Written and recorded throughout 2025 at their ex-taxi-office-turned studio, Cherry Lips, the new album was produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White. The lead single actually owes its existence to Archer’s tech-savvy 10-year-old son, who stitched together two old demos on his laptop. According to Archer, the differing tempos initially sounded like chaos until the band polished the idea into the fresh track it is today.
The album title is inspired by an El Salvador saying about avoiding ego-based battles, reflecting a band unburdened and playing together again purely for the joy of it. The record spans emotive tracks like ‘You Rule My Heart’ featuring Olivier Award-nominated singer Krysten Cummings, to the Cumbia-inspired ‘Digo Nada’ featuring UK-based Colombian rapper Mike Kalle.
Following a reunion sparked by a lockdown livestream and a subsequent lightning-fast sellout at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, the band is fully recharged. Physical copies of the album will be available on CD and various vinyl editions, including a turquoise vinyl exclusive to the band’s store and a red, black, and white spattered edition exclusive to indie record stores.
Sweating Someone Else’s Fever – Tracklisting
- They Ain’t Your Friends
- Digo Nada (feat. Mike Kalle)
- You Rule My Heart (When The Summer’s Gone)
- Humpback Whale
- Looking For Fun
- A Rose Electric (feat. Krysten Cummings)
- Always and Forever (Remastered)
- Arise
- Ain’t Going Out Tonight (feat. Krysten Cummings)
- Now and Then
- Don’t Go Making Plans (Remastered)
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