Squeeze is set to return with Trixies, the band’s first new album in eight years, on March 6th via BMG (pre-orders are ongoing). But it comes with a twist: the songs predate Squeeze’s 1978 self-titled debut. The announcement comes with the first single, “Trixies Part One.” Listen to it below.
Trixies was conceived by Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook when they were just teenagers, 19 and 16, respectively, at the very start of their musical partnership. Inspired by the rock operas and concept albums of the early 1970s, the songs are a collection of stories set in a fictional nightclub, Trixies. The grandeur of the project, however, was still beyond the burgeoning songwriters’ capabilities.
“We fully committed ourselves to songwriting, but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record,” Difford revealed in a press statement. “Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly.”
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Fifty years later, the pair returned to the original cassette tape to finally make Trixies a reality. “The songs that we wrote then astound me. I’m proud of them now, and I’m particularly proud that it was young us that did that,” Tilbrook explained. “These are very much the same songs that we wrote then. The only difference is that now I can teach the songs to the rest of the band. Back then, I didn’t even know what the names of the chords were!”
Squeeze fans will be happy to know that Trixies will be followed by another full-length album of brand new songs, recorded at the same time as Trixies, which is already finished and ready for release sometime in the future.
Before the arrival of Trixies, Squeeze is set to embark on a European arena tour as the special guests of Madness, which launches November 15th in Barcelona, Spain, with dates in Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and more before wrapping up at London’s O2 Arena on December 20th. See the full itinerary below, and get tickets here.
Sadly, Gilson Lavis, the classic drummer for Squeeze and later a member of Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, died earlier this month at the age of 74.
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<p><strong><em>Trixies</em> Tracklisting:</strong><br />01. What More Can I Say<br />02. You Get The Feeling<br />03. The Place We Call Mars<br />04. Hell On Earth<br />05. The Dancer<br />06. Good Riddance<br />07. Don’t Go Out In the Dark<br />08. Why Don’t You<br />09. Anything But Me<br />10. It’s Over<br />11. The Jaguars<br />12. Trixies Part One<br />13. Trixies Part Two</p>
<p><strong>Squeeze 2025 Tour Dates:</strong><br />11/15 – Barcelona, Spain @ Feroe*<br />11/30 – Deal, United Kingdom @ The Astor Community Theatre*<br />12/01 – Deal, United Kingdom @ The Astor Community Theatre*<br />12/04 – Sheffield, United Kingdom @ Utilita Arena Sheffield*<br />12/05 – Manchester, United Kingdom @ AO Arena*<br />12/06 – Glasgow, United Kingdom @ OVO Hydro*<br />12/07 – Old Aberdeen, United Kingdom @ P&J Live*<br />12/09 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom @ Utilita Arena Newcastle*<br />12/10 – Liverpool, United Kingdom @ M&S Bank Arena*<br />12/12 – Leeds, United Kingdom @ first direct bank arena*<br />12/13 – Nottingham, United Kingdom @ Motorpoint Arena*<br />12/14 – Brighton, United Kingdom @ The Brighton Centre*<br />12/16 – Bournemouth, United Kingdom @ Bournemouth International Centre, Windsor Hall*<br />12/18 – Cardiff, United Kingdom @ Utilita Arena Cardiff*<br />12/19 – Birmingham, United Kingdom @ Utilita Arena Birmingham*<br />12/20 – East London, United Kingdom @ The O2 Arena*</p>
<p>* = w/Madness</p>
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