The Gig Cartel - Gig guide: Scarlet Rebels Newcastle The Cluny

Scarlet Rebels Newcastle The Cluny

(featuring Scarlet Rebels)

Venue: Newcastle The Cluny

Welsh rock band Scarlet Rebels have announced their first headline tour in three years, with the 2027 UK run kicking off on 11 February. The announcement comes alongside the release of their brand-new single and video, ‘Chains’, the third track to be taken from their forthcoming album Flawed By Design, due for release on 13 November 2026 via Earache Records.
 
The video for ‘Chains’ was filmed at Scarlet Rebels’ biggest headline show to date at Chepstow Castle, capturing a landmark night for the band in front of a huge home crowd.
 
“We loved the idea of capturing a night of huge importance to the band on camera professionally. We’re thrilled with how it’s turned out and that it’ll serve as a reminder of the evening forever,” says frontman Wayne Doyle.
 
The Chepstow show was a major moment for the band, with Musipedia of Metal describing the performance as a defining night for Scarlet Rebels:
“Scarlet Rebels just confirmed to everyone here tonight why they should be playing big arenas around the globe often. The more chance people get to witness the best pure rock band Wales has to offer, the better.”
 
‘Chains’ follows the release of ‘Don’t Look Down’, which has recently been added to the Planet Rock playlist, and the album’s first single, ‘This Is Happening Now’, which was selected for Classic Rock Magazine’s The Hot List.
 
Recorded with returning producer Chris Clancy, Flawed By Design continues the progression of Scarlet Rebels’ sound following their previous top 20 album Where The Colours Meet. The new record combines the band’s instinct for powerful rock songs with a more personal and introspective approach to songwriting.
 
‘Chains’ began unexpectedly, with the song coming together from a single idea at home. Wayne Doyle explains,
“This song dropped out of the blue, quite literally. I picked my acoustic guitar up at home, hit the first chord and sung ‘Set my soul on fire again’. It went from there. This was the first song we started to work on for the record.
The song speaks of my internal thoughts and anxieties, the over thinking and over analysing that can be overbearing and weigh you down, resulting in a pleading to be released from that burden or my ‘chains’ if you will.
I’m conscious that anyone reading this must think I’m constantly walking around being miserable, but like anything that takes any sort of art form, the point is exaggerated for the greater good.”