The Pains of Being Pure at Heart reforming for tour celebrating their debut album’s 15th anniversary

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are reforming for a 2025 tour that celebrates the 15th anniversary of their debut album. The lineup will be Kip Berman, Peggy Wang, Christoph Hochheim, and Kurt Feldman, which will be that specific lineup’s first shows together since 2012. (Also joining them will be Eddy Marshall, who plays in Kip’s solo project, The Natvral, and is filing in for bassist Alex Naidus, who can’t make the tour.) The last TPOBPAH show of any kind was in 2018.

Kip says: “To celebrate the 15 year anniversary of our debut album, we’ll be touring Spain + Portugal in February/March 2025. Yeah, we know it’ll actually be 16 years by then, but… The Pains of Being Bad at Math.”

So far, those are the only dates. “I don’t know if we’ll be doing more (or less) of this in the future,” says Kip. “But for right now, we’re all excited to get this chance to be together and play these songs that, quite literally, changed our lives.” Surely they’ll play some US shows too? NYC warm-up? Stay tuned.

Tickets for the Spain and Portugal shows go on sale Tuesday, August 20. All dates are listed below.

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