The Clause smashed 2025, landing a UK #1 Independent Album and a Top 20 Official Album Chart place for their acclaimed debut ‘Victim of a Casual Thing’ before completing a sold-out UK headline tour which culminated with a 3000-capacity Birmingham’s O2 Academy. Now The Clause take that momentum flying into 2026 as they release the extended Deluxe Edition of the album.
The Deluxe Edition takes the big moments and fan favourites of the original (including ‘I Don’t Care’, ‘Nothing’s As It Seems’, ‘Element’ and ‘Tell Me What You Want’) and adds four brand new recordings. Yet these “new” tracks are also an essential part of The Clause’s story so far. ‘Shut Me Down’ was the very first song that they wrote together when they were just 17-years-old and, as with ‘Tokyo’ and ‘Comedown Conservations’, featured during early live shows – with fans now clamouring to hear full versions of each. It also adds a new version of ‘Never Ending Affair’, the closing song from their 2024 EP ‘Weekend Millionaire’, the opening verse of which features the lyric from which the album took its name.
Vocalist/guitarist Pearce Macca says, “When we started this band fresh out of school at 17, these were the first three songs we ever wrote together. Back then we were gigging around our hometown of Birmingham, playing covers of our favourite bands to rooms full of our mates. We had no clue what we were doing or even how to write a song, but we put pen to paper and ‘Shut Me Out’, ‘Comedown Conversations’ and ‘Tokyo’ were written
With no money to record properly, we made most of them in a makeshift studio above a kickboxing gym around the corner from where we lived, and they never really saw the light of day. When it came time to make our debut album, we took these songs back into the studio and re-recorded them exactly as they were when we first wrote them at 17.
These tracks mark the very beginning of this band and laid the foundations for everything that followed. To celebrate the release of our debut record, we’re proud to finally share them as part of the Deluxe Edition, capped off by the song that gave us the name of our record, ‘Never Ending Affair’.”
Appropriately, the Deluxe Edition emerges as The Clause step back onto more intimate venues next week with the sold-out Independent Venue Week tour. March and April then brings the second leg of their ‘Victim of a Casual Thing’ tour, this time covering Europe, Ireland and some of the UK cities they didn’t hit last time around. By the time that’s in the bag, festival season will be approaching. The Clause are already confirmed to headline their first two major festivals at This Feeling By The Sea and 110 Above, with In It Together, Tramlines, Together Again, Y NOT? and Victorious all on the calendar.
Tickets for the shows, listed below, are available HERE.
JANUARY – INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK TOUR
27th – York, Fulford Arms (SOLD OUT)
28th – Huddersfield, The Parish (SOLD OUT)
29th – Preston, The Ferret (SOLD OUT)
30th – Northampton, The Black Prince (SOLD OUT)
31st – Plymouth, The Junction (SOLD OUT)
FEBRUARY – INDEPENDENT VENUE WEEK TOUR
1st – Guildford, The Boileroom (SOLD OUT)
MARCH
5th – Belfast, Voodoo
6th – Dublin, Whelan’s (RUNNING LOW)
18th – Norwich, The Waterfront (RUNNING LOW)
19th – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms (RUNNING LOW)
21st – Berlin, Lark
22nd – Cologne, Gebaude 9
25th – Madrid, El Sol
26th – Barcelona, Sala Upload
27th – Bordeaux, Pulp
28th – Toulouse La Labo Des Arts
29th – Artez, Pingouin Alternatif
31st – Paris, Truskel (RUNNING LOW)
APRIL
1st – Rouen, Fury
2nd – Rotterdam, Rotown (RUNNING LOW)
9th – Cardiff, The Globe
10th – Coventry, The Empire
11th – Wrexham, The Rockin’ Chair
16th – Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
17th – Carlisle, The Old Fire Station
18th – Bridlington Spa, This Feeling By The Sea (HEADLINERS)
23rd – Liverpool, Hanger 34 (RUNNING LOW)
24th – Stockton, KU (RUNNING LOW)
MAY
22nd – Port Talbot, In It Together Festival
JUNE
24th – Sheffield, Tramlines
JULY
24th-26th – Chester, Together Again Festival
AUGUST
1st – Derbyshire, Y NOT? Festival
20th – Leicestershire, 110 Above Festival (HEADLINERS)
19th – Portsmouth, Victorious Festival
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