Paramore singer Hayley Williams has announced her first-ever solo tour in support of her debut solo album, Petals For Armor. Williams will start her run in mid-May in Europe, followed by a North American tour kicking off on May 28th in Seattle, Washington. The trek will close out month later on June 29th in Nashville.
Williams wrote about the tour, “Wow. I am going on tour. Myself. It’s not Paramore and truthfully, it’s just a little terrifying. But if I know anything, it’s that there’s no safer place (besides at home with my dog) than to be in a room, on a stage, in front of the people who I’ve grown up singing my lungs out for. There was a time I thought I wouldn’t tour Petals For Armor. What a joke. I must.”
Williams noted that the shows will be more intimate than those she's played for years with Paramore, saying, “My brand-newly-formed band and I will be playing rooms that Paramore outgrew a decade ago. It’s going to be so satisfying to feel the energy of a crowd that close again, especially while performing songs that feel so vital for me.”
We asked Williams a while back how she prepares for a show: “The thing that I think about the most is what I'm gonna say. But no matter how much I prepare for it, I still kind of, I don't know if you could really call it screw it up. But it changes every night, 'cause I try not to plan it out too much, but I get nervous about it, so I definitely put a lot of thought into it. That's the main thing I think about. As far as just running around and looking like a fool, that's not really hard (laughs).”
Petals For Armor is due out May 8th. Williams has already shared five songs from the disc to form an EP called Petals For Armor 1.
Newly announced Hayley Williams tour dates (subject to change):
May 28 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
May 30 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
June 1 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
June 3 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
June 5 – Dallas, TX – HiFi
June 6 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
June 8 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues
June 10 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
June 15 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
June 17 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring
June 18 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
June 20 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
June 22 – Toronto, ON – Rebel
June 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
June 26 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
June 27 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
June 29 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
