Teenage Fanclub

The guitars are getting tuned, the harmonies are warming up and Teenage Fanclub are heading back to Spain — with a particularly tasty stop at Sala Moon in València on October 16.

The Scottish indie legends arrive in the middle of an extensive Spanish tour that sees them travelling from San Fernando to Barcelona, bringing with them a new album, a career stacked with classic songs and a rather brilliant addition to the travelling party: Euros Childs.

For fans of Teenage Fanclub, Childs is hardly a random support act. The Welsh musician is currently a fully fledged member of the band, contributing keyboards and vocals, touring alongside them and appearing on their three most recent studio albums. This tour, however, gives Valencian audiences the chance to see him step out from behind the keyboards and showcase his own considerable songwriting talents. And that makes the Moon date particularly appealing.

Childs first made his mark as the frontman of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, one of the strangest and most charming bands to emerge from the Welsh scene during the 1990s. Since launching his solo career with Chops in 2006, he has pursued an astonishingly prolific path, releasing music through his own National Elf label and accumulating an impressive 21-album catalogue.

His recent run — Thrips (2023), Beehive Beach (2024) and A-Pop (2025) — underlines just how fertile that creative brain remains. Seeing him open for a band he now plays with is a neat bit of musical circularity.

But Teenage Fanclub have their own new chapter arriving at almost exactly the same time.

Their new album Do Not Dare To Dream lands on October 9 via Merge Records, just days into the Spanish run. The timing couldn't be better for the València show, with new material landing fresh while the band take a deep dive into the catalogue that made them one of alternative rock's most enduring melodic forces.

The early evidence is already promising. Singles ‘Day In The Sun’ and ‘There Was You’ suggest that the band's trademark combination of ringing guitars, beautifully worn-in harmonies and deceptively simple songwriting remains firmly intact. And that's the thing about Teenage Fanclub: they never needed to shout.

Since Bandwagonesque arrived in 1991, followed by landmarks including Grand Prix and Songs From Northern Britain, the Glasgow band have built a catalogue that understands the power of a great melody without ever treating melody as something lightweight. Their music carries echoes of Big Star, Badfinger and The Byrds, but their particular blend of guitar pop, folk-rock warmth and alternative cool is unmistakably their own.

For València, October 16 at Moon offers something more than another date on a nostalgia-heavy reunion circuit. Teenage Fanclub are arriving with new music, a rejuvenated creative streak and Euros Childs along for the ride, while still carrying decades of songs that have become touchstones for generations of guitar-pop obsessives.

And with the Oviedo show already sold out, the message from elsewhere in Spain is pretty clear: this tour is moving fast. This could be one of those October nights when guitar music feels exactly right again.

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