Brighton-based duo WREX announce a 5 date tour for Independent Venue Week, taking them across the UK from 27th-31st January, finishing in Portsmouth where they headline The Loft Stage at Icebreaker Festival.

WREX make electro-charged alternative rock to turbocharge heartbeats, snap necks and fill both dance floors and mosh pits. Shades of punk, nu-metal, pop and trance collide and coalesce but never clash; a wild explosion of riffs and synths that pulls from influences as diverse as While She Sleeps, Faithless and Linkin Park.

When George Donoghue and Mae Seaton met as perfect strangers on a night out, neither of them could have known how much they needed one another. But WREX, the band born of the pair’s chance connection some years later, has come to be exactly that: not simply a creative outlet but a need, an urge, a calling, a pure expression.

This is the WREX blueprint: a fierce, all-enveloping wall of sound with little time for music’s outdated boundaries or conventions; creativity, joy and emotion unbound.

“Working with someone that has as much excitement for making music as Mae is invigorating and inspiring for me,” Donoghue says. “Neither of us has any sort of ego when it comes to making music. No idea is ever off the table. A big part of the WREX ethos is never asking permission–that cuts to the core of both our sound and our DIY sentiment. WREX is ultimately about making art for the sheer joy of creating, and we want to convey that excitement on record and in our live show.”

The band will be coming to York on 28 January 2026, playing at The Fulford Arms.

All dates:

27/01 – Nottingham – Mist Rolling Inn

28/01 – York – The Fulford Arms

29/01 – Stoke-on-Trent – The Artisan Tap

30/01 – Banbury – The Apothecary Tap

31/01 – Portsmouth – Icebreaker Festival

Tickets are available on the band’s website.