Squeeze is set to headline the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 19, sharing the bill with Adam Ant and The English Beat, as the band tours behind its new album Trixies. The record is built from songs Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook first sketched out as teenagers in 1974, decades before they were rerecorded and released to the public.
The concert lineup was confirmed by the venue itself, according to hollywoodbowl.com, and further detailed by mnprmagazine.com, which reported that Squeeze will take the stage at the Bowl alongside Adam Ant and The English Beat. The show lands in the middle of a broader run of dates: per Squeeze's official website, the band is touring North America this fall with Adam Ant, Haircut 100 and Leon, and is also preparing a 16-date U.K. run this autumn, according to the mnprmagazine.com report, which named it the Tried, Tested and Trixies Tour and noted it includes a headline show at London's O2 Arena.
Teenage Sketches Become a Full Album
Trixies, released March 6, 2026, according to rockcellarmagazine.com, is drawn directly from material Difford and Tilbrook wrote as teenagers in 1974, as reported by NPR. Difford was 19 and Tilbrook was 16 at the time those songs were written, per kunr.org. NPR's report describes the band going back to those very first songs and rerecording them for the new record, which is set around a fictional nightclub, according to a Q&A published by justlistentothis.co.uk.
The album marks Squeeze's first collection of brand-new music in eight years, according to the band's own website. It was produced by Squeeze bassist Owen Biddle, per the mnprmagazine.com report. Tilbrook told NPR the music reflects influences spanning 1971 to 1974, name-checking David Bowie, Sparks, Roxy Music, Stevie Wonder, and Paul McCartney and Wings, and telling the outlet, “I can hear Sparks in there. I can hear Roxy Music.” Variety discusses the finished record as both timeless and frozen in time, according to Variety.
From Rejection Slips to a Nine-Member Band
Squeeze's origins trace to South London. The band's official website states it formed in 1973. Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford are founding members who have written together since their teens, and NPR reports the pair wrote songs together as teenagers. Squeeze was later signed by A&M, according to details drawn from the Los Angeles Times.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Squeeze has since grown into a lineup built gradually over the years and is known for its biggest hit, Tempted. The Times reports Squeeze has developed a reputation for strong singers delivering layered harmonies, a shift the paper attributes to the band leaning more heavily into vocal work over the years.
Producer's Push Led to a Long-Buried Album
Owen Biddle, described in the Times report as a producer, bassist and former member of The Roots, guided production of Trixies. The Times also notes that revisiting those decades-old songs led the band to record a companion album of entirely new material concurrently, which mnprmagazine.com reports is already finished, while classicpopmag.com's interview with the band suggests that companion record will follow at a future date.
Squeeze's back catalog includes The Knowledge, released in 2017, identified as the band's prior studio album. The band's biggest commercial success remains Tempted, which KUNR identifies as the band's biggest hit. The band's history is also discussed in the same Times report.
A Bowl Show Decades in the Making
Tilbrook told the paper he believes this year's headlining date is probably the band's biggest headlining gig in Los Angeles. The show arrives as Squeeze marks more than 50 years of music-making, with breaks along the way, according to the same report.
Despite decades of writing together, Difford and Tilbrook continue to write songs together and come together on stage. Difford, who was interviewed in Nashville for the piece while Tilbrook spoke from London, has said he draws inspiration from Damon Runyon's stories set in the 1930s and 1940s. Variety also reports that Tilbrook said he isn't aware of anything comparable to Squeeze's decision to revive and record an entire album of previously unheard teenage songs so many years later, telling the outlet, “I don't know of anything else that is even remotely like this.” The band has played more than 600 shows since reuniting in 2007, according to rockcellarmagazine.com, with Saturday's Hollywood Bowl date standing as one of the more prominent stops on that long road back.
