THE HAILS ON TOUR
Following the release of their Fall 2023 debut album What's Your Motive, The Hails have been out on the road bringing their music to longtime and new fans alike. Ramping up for 2024, The Hails are out on leg two of their headline debut album tour. The upcoming tour dates will see support from California garage rock band Foxtide and Georgia indie-pop outfit Hotel Fiction. Shows in Austin, Los Angeles and San Diego are already sold out, with many others with low ticket warnings — see all upcoming dates here and below.
To kick this busy season off, The Hails released the expanded version of their debut album, What’s Your Motive (Deluxe) and their official live video for “Stay.” Further waxing their penchant for well-polished experimentation and all-consuming storytelling the deluxe album features two new tracks, fan-favorite “Stay,” and a remix of “Fiona” with Magic City Hippies. Other recent news includes that The Hails will team up with their longtime friends in flipturn for a couple Florida shows in April, and then make their Governors Ball debut in June.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
February 7 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar ^
February 8 - San Diego, CA - Voodoo Room at House of Blues ^ (SOLD OUT)
February 9 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge ^ (SOLD OUT)
February 11 - San Francisco, CA - Brick and Mortar ^
February 13 - Portland, OR - Mission Theater ^
February 14 - Seattle, WA - Barboza ^
February 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^
February 17 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake ^
February 20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry &
February 21- Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club &
February 23 - Indianapolis, IN - Hi Fi &
February 24 - Columbus, OH - The Basement &
February 27 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room &
April 13 - Jacksonville, FL - on sale Friday
April 25 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Revolution Live #
April 26 - St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Live #
June 4 - Charleston, SC - on sale Friday
June 5 - Charlotte, NC - on sale Friday
June 6 - Washington, DC - on sale Friday
June 9 - Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY - Governors Ball
^ with support from Foxtide
* with support from Hotel Fiction
# supporting flipturn
ABOUT THE HAILS
Regardless of whichever omnipresent puller-of-strings you subscribe to, it’s undeniable that some force was always working to ensure the inevitability of The Hails. From two of the band members both calling the same third floor apartment home at different parts of their then separate childhoods — the very building they’d later meet their bassist in — to a fateful University of Florida dining hall encounter years later that set things in motion. There has always been a strange air about the sequence of events meant to unite Robbie Kingsley, Franco Solari, Dylan McCue, Andre Escobar and Zach Levy, that begs the question, is anything ever truly up to chance?
Despite first playing in an insular Miami high school music scene, the band officially formed at UF, finding their moniker in the college’s alma mater — “All hail, Florida, hail.” The Hails banded together through a slew of long nights and wild house shows in their living room — the only option in the basement-less state of Florida. Ironically, from the tattered carpeting and the beer bottle lined shelves of their shitty college house arose a distinct, refined sound that is now synonymous with the band’s name.
With shimmering early singles like “Younger” and “Stay,” and their EPs He Seems Upset (2020) and Alive in Strange Ways (2021), The Hails came to represent an edgy sort of sleekness that can only be attributed to the cities they cut their teeth in — Gainesville and Miami. Mirrored in the band’s sound, there’s an underlying grit that comes from Gainesville’s affinity toward DIY; where the band played countless shows at the infamous High Dive over the years and hijacked the community spirit of an entire college town. But within everything the band does, you can hear Miami’s quality of perfectly riding the line between the cutting edge and the neon-laced nostalgia of yesteryears. Fusing their varying cultures, upbringings and influences, comes a sound that's unmistakably singular.
Firing the starting pistol of their current chapter, The Hails began rolling out singles from their debut album in October 2022. Recent highlights of the road include holding court at festivals like III Points, WonderStruck and Okeechobee, interspersed between sold-out shows across the state of Florida, and tour support for WILLIS, The Happy Fits, The Beaches and the moss. Now with their debut album What’s Your Motive out in the world, The Hails will bring their new music to the road on their first ever headline tour.
The keys to that third-floor apartment have traded hands to another family, and a new wave of orange-and-blue-clad underclassmen shuffle into the dining hall to grab their heat-lamp-warmed meals. But even in the same settings, no string of occurrences will ever happen again to create a band quite like The Hails.
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