Squeeze - Trixies

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MOJO “Trixies sits comfortably beside Squeeze’s finest works of the late ’70s. It might even be better” ★★★★★

  Classic Pop ★★★★

  Record Collector ★★★★

Uncut 8/10

  LouderThanWar ★★★★  

Daily Express ★★★★

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Album launch show at KOKO, March 11, 2026

More than 50 years after it was written Trixies, the new album by Squeeze, is now released,

One of 2026’s most anticipated albums Trixies is the band’s first album in eight years but the first they ever wrote. A collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies, the album was written by the band’s teenage founders Chris Difford (19) and Glenn Tilbrook (16) at the very start of their songwriting partnership. Now more than fifty years on, Squeeze have completed the circle and realised the vision the precocious teens had for the songs that, as the Guardian wrote, show that “all the Squeeze hallmarks of melody, romance and storytelling were there from the beginning.”

“A record imagined in youth, realised in maturity and vibrating with the thrill of possibility” Classic Rock

“Imaginative, impressive and, most importantly, fun” – PopMatters

“A surprising and impressive release” The Wire

Before the sky-high classics such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Tempted’, ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Another Nail In My Heart’ and ‘Labelled With Love’, before the 2008 Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, the Mojo Icon award, the quintessential Cradle To The Grave, the world tours and festival highlight sets, and before 2017’s celebrated The Knowledge, there was Trixies.

The only problem with these songs – crime scene vignettes like ‘The Place We Call Mars’ and ‘Don’t Go Out In The Dark’; the riotous come-hither rapacity of ‘Why Don’t You’; and the evocative acoustic scene setter ‘You Get The Feeling’ – was that, back in 1974, the musical vision of the young creators exceeded their virtuosity. “We fully committed ourselves to songwriting but this was three or four years before we even got to make our first record. Long story short, these were songs that we just didn’t have enough musical experience to record properly” explains Difford.

Fifty years on, and having rediscovered the original cassette, that problem no longer exists for the band whose live shows are legendary and who have played more than 600 shows since reuniting in 2007. So what better way to mark 50 years of Squeeze than to complete the circle and realise the vision they had for Trixies? “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. These are very much the same songs that we wrote then,” says Tilbrook, “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!”

Now this precocious opening volley of songs – under the guiding production hand of Squeeze’s bassist Owen Biddle (The Roots, John Legend, Al Green) – finally gets to enjoy its moment in the spotlight.

And by returning Difford and Tilbrook to the birth of their creative partnership, Trixies has acted as the catalyst to a latter-day songwriting surge. On the heels of Trixies, an album of brand new Squeeze songs – recorded concurrently with Trixies – is finished and set to follow in the future. “The act of revisiting the Trixies songs had me in tears,” smiles Tilbrook, “partly because they’re so good, but also because I’m aware of all the stuff that I’ve still yet to hear and write.” The sentiments are echoed by Difford: “It really fills me with joy that at my age we can discover that we wrote such great songs when we were teenagers. I’m very proud of that.”

This autumn Squeeze will be embarking on the most ambitious UK tour of their career, one that will also support the anti-poverty charity Trussell and Grassroots Music Venues. The 16-date Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour in 2026, starting at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on November 12, and ending at the Brighton Centre on December 5, will see Squeeze headline several arenas for the first time – including a hometown show at London’s O2 Arena just 3 miles from where the band started. Joining Squeeze on the tour as Very Special Guest will be singer, songwriter and activist Billy Bragg. Ahead of the UK tour Squeeze will take to the stage at the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 19 alongside special guests Adam Ant and The English Beat, followed by an appearance at the Bourbon & Beyond Festival in Louisville, KY on September 26.

Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour 2026 dates – see www.squeezeofficial.com for ticket links

Thursday 12 November              Glasgow OVO Hydro

Friday 13 November                    Blackpool Opera House

Saturday 14 November              Nottingham Motorpoint Arena

Monday 16 November                Newcastle O2 City Hall

Tuesday 17 November                Stockton Globe

Thursday 19 November              Hull Connexin Live

Friday 20 November                    Leeds First Direct Bank Arena

Saturday 21 November              Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

Monday 23 November                Manchester O2 Apollo

Thursday 26 November              London The O2

Friday 27 November                    Cardiff Utilita Arena

Saturday 28 November              Birmingham Utilita Arena

Monday 30 November                Swansea Building Society Arena

Tuesday 1 December                  Plymouth Pavilions

Friday 4 December                      Bournemouth International Centre

Saturday 5 December                 Brighton Centre

The band has also announced a short run of European shows and their only UK summer show:

Friday March 20                            Fabrik - Hamburg, Germany

Sunday March 22                         Debaser Hornstulls Strand - Stockholm, Sweden

Tuesday March 24                       Patronaat - Haarlem, Netherlands

Wednesday March 25                 Luxor - Köln, Germany

Friday March 27                            Santeria Toscana 31 - Milano, Italy

Saturday March 28                      Café de la Danse - Paris, France

Sunday June 27                            Retro C Trop - Tilloloy, France

Saturday July 4                             Gwyl Portmeirion Festival, Wales

Squeeze band:

Chris Difford – guitar & vocals

Glenn Tilbrook – guitar & vocals

Owen Biddle – bass

Melvin Duffy – pedal steel guitar

Steve Smith - percussion

Stephen Large - keyboard

Simon Hanson – drums

Danica Dora – backing vocals

Leon Tilbrook - guitar