Pins Await Wild Night in Newcastle

Manchester’s own PINS will embark on a highly anticipated UK tour this month to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their critically acclaimed album Wild Nights. As part of the run, the band will arrive at Think Tank in Newcastle on Sunday, 12th October.

Reflecting on the year so far, singer/guitarist Faith Vern said: “We are coming to the close of 2025, but it feels like for us we've only just got going because for the first part of 2025 our bass player was still away, and she went to Vietnam. So, we didn't see her. Then, when she came back, we just started hammering the recording and the rehearsals.”

Faith continues: “We managed to start our tour, which then got ground to a bit of a halt when our guitar player had to have some surgery that was unexpected. Finally, we get to this weekend, and we get to go to Liverpool, Leeds, and the mighty Newcastle.”

Released in 2015, Pins are presently celebrating the milestone tenth anniversary of their sophomore album. “In one way, it feels like it's so long ago and so much has happened since, but on the other hand, it just feels like, oh my god, how can that have been 10 years ago? The memories are still so fresh, and how can we be 10 years older?” reflects Faith. “I think the reason we wanted to celebrate it is because it is special, and it did change the course of our lives. With that album, we went all over America, and we've had so many great opportunities with the festivals we've played and the bands that we've been able to support. So, we just felt even for ourselves, even if the shows were silent and nobody came, we're like we have to do it for ourselves.”

The band’s memories of working on the album aren’t as vivid as perhaps they would like. “It was a bit of a hazy time, shall we say,” recalls Faith. “I remember it was a lot of fun, though. Being over in the desert, being in America, it felt like we were on another planet, like we'd just landed on Mars. We'd never seen anything like it in our lives. It was a very free-spirited place.”

Faith elaborates: “Fast forward 10 years later and I'm a mum now and Lois is a mum now and we've got these responsibilities that it is nice to reflect on a time that was a little bit crazier and wild and young and free.”

From reflecting on the past to looking to the future. And Pins recently released a new single titled I’ll Be Yours. “We got together with the intention of starting to write again together. We are going to do another album, so that was the intention behind it. But we were like, let's record a few songs and see how it sounds,” explains Faith. “We went to Holy Mountain Studio in London, and they've got a tape machine, because we wanted to try and do as much of it as analog as we could. That was fun, and we just recorded three songs there, and then we liked how one was sounding and decided we thought, let's put one out before the tour.”

Faith elaborates: “For me, it's like a bit of promo and for people to hear the direction that we're going in. But it was just a song that I wrote and brought it to the band, and it's just a weird one really. That's why we decided just to chuck it out. And sometimes our weird songs are the ones that do the best. We still play a song called Girls Like Us. The structure of it and everything is weird, but that's the one that gets everyone up at shows.”

The band has plans to finish the recording of their upcoming album soon. “We've booked in the studio time to record the rest, which is going to happen over winter between December and into January,” said Faith. “We would like to release it in autumn next year, but that's not set in stone because these things never are.

Pins are looking forward to returning to the North East. Faith recalls performing at Pop Recs in Sunderland many years back, and the hospitality of Frankie Francis from Frankie and the Heartstrings. “When we arrived, we were all a little bit worse for wear, and Frankie came over and gave us all a Gregg’s pasty. It made us feel better,” said Faith. “It's always been a warm welcome from the North East.”

Pins will perform at Think Tank in Newcastle on Sunday, 12th October. For ticket information and further details, please visit: https://www.thinktankncl.co.uk.

Words by Adam Kennedy