Hayley Williams is Going on Tour Solo

On Thursday, March 5th, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams announced her first solo tour in support of debut album, Petals for Armor.

The singer released “Simmer,” the first single from the album on January 22nd, and the entire album is scheduled to drop on May 8 and is available for pre-order now. Her solo endeavor comes after Paramore, which formed in 2004, announced on September 4th that they were going on hiatus.

The tour kicks off on May 13 in Amsterdam, with North American dates slated to begin on May 28 with a show in Seattle. The outing is scheduled to wrap up on June 29 in Nashville, where the singer grew up; Arlo Parks will open the shows.

“Wow. I am going on tour. Myself. It’s not Paramore and truthfully, it’s just a little terrifying,” she said in a statement. “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, in front of the people who’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.”

“The first run of shows is going to be hot, sweaty, and intimate,” Williams explained. “My brand-newly-formed band 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; songs I have never performed before for an audience.”

Tickets for the Petals for Armour Tour go on sale March 13 at 10 a.m. local time. For fans who preorder the record by 10 p.m. local March 8, you’ll have access to resale tickets for U.S. dates beginning March 10 at 10 a.m. local, and ending March 12 at 10 p.m. local.

Check out Hayley’s solo tour dates below:

May 13 — Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max

May 15 — Brighton, UK @ The Beach

May 16 — London, UK @ Electric Brixton

May 19 — Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall

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

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