Boiler Shop
20 South Street
Liift presents
The Pale White
Boiler Shop, Newcastle
17 April 2026
This is the northeast calling, with songs of stillness, reflection, renewal, defiance, hope, classic melodies and, at certain perfectly judged moments, furniture-shifting riffs. With a powerful album shaped by pandemic-era loss and by the wins brought by what singer/songwriter/guitarist Adam Hope describes as a “weight lifted off my shoulders”. With a fresh, front-footed, fired-up approach that owes everything to a band (Adam and Jack Hope) returning to their roots in Wallsend and Newcastle – and, for the first time, making their music entirely on their own independent terms: self-produced and self-confident.
The Pale White recorded their first album and accompanying singles in studios in London and Kent, with an outside producer. But by the time they started working on their sophomore album The Big Sad, the collective mindset, according to Adam, was: “Stop chasing. Come home. Be at home. Be ourselves. Just see what happens. And we've gotten the best out of what we can be doing that. It was nice to have total freedom and put our own stamp on it.”
For these proud sons of the northeast, going home meant one more powerful burst of artistic expression. Writing and recording back on home turf in the northeast, the band embraced the freedom of being fully in charge. Now, The Pale White is gearing up for their biggest headline tour yet.
This is the sound of a band constantly evolving – without ever losing the chemistry that makes them. And they’re only getting louder.
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