Fan’s of one of Vancouver’s best indie pop bands are rejoicing, as Peach Pit announces its 2025 Long Hair, Long Life tour with Briston Maroney. The tour has over 60 stops in it’s run, both across Canada and international borders. And, most importantly, the band stops right here in Burnaby, at Deer Lake Park.
The tour was announced in wake of Peach Pit’s latest album, Magpie. Released last month, the Album was extremely well received. With some absolute gems like Am I Your Girl and Outta Here, fans are calling it their best album yet. Neil Smith, the band’s lead singer, described it as “a record like that that has many different [genres] on it…” and ”that was something we were paying attention to when we were making the record. I was like, ‘let’s try to make something that isn’t samey all the way through’… we’ve got heavy songs, we’ve got folk songs, we’ve got poppier songs,”
And now, Smith is ecstatic for the future. “We couldn’t be more excited for this upcoming 2025 NA tour with our good friend Briston Maroney. It’s our biggest tour ever, and we’re playing some really crazy venues, places like Red Rocks in Colorado that I honestly never really thought were in the cards for us,” He explains. “It freaks me out that we somehow managed to go from rehearsing in Chris’ bedroom 10 years ago to venues like The Greek in LA and Pier 17 in New York.” And, highlighting how far they’ve come, he ended by saying “2014 Peach Pit would be tripping out right now.”
Peach Pit was formed in 2016, only 8 years ago, but the band has been playing together for even longer than that. Since 2014, in fact. Smith says “[He’d] write a song, [they’d] come together and [they’d] figure out the song in a very rudimentary sort of way… [They] kind of put it together like puzzle pieces. So [the band] started when [they] were really young,” That connection between the members is what has driven Peach Pit so far, and sparked their dedicated fanbase.
The band’s tour brings them to Deer Lake Park, right outside BCIT’s doorstep, on June 6th, 2025. Or, if you can’t wait, they’ll be in Royal Theatre in Victoria February 4th and 5th. But, either way, make sure you check out their biggest tour yet. You can buy your tickets right now, so don’t wait around!