BLUAI Release New Single ‘Alive’
New Single ‘Alive’ Out Now on Unday Records
Announce October 2026 UK Dates With The Clockworks
Play London’s Scala October 16th
Following the release of ‘Sober’, their first new music in over two years earlier this year, Antwerp indie-pop trio BLUAI have released the second taste from their forthcoming sophomore record with new single ‘Alive’. The band has also announced a run of UK dates supporting The Clockworks in October 2026, including a date at London’s Scala on Friday October 16th. Listen to ‘Alive’ HERE & watch the video HERE.
‘Alive’, started with guilt. Songwriter and guitarist Catherine Smet wrote it in the shadow of her grandmothers’ deaths. Not just as an act of mourning, but as a reckoning with all the time she hadn’t taken. The visits deferred, the conversations half-had, the presence that was never quite fully given. “The question becomes,” the band reflects, “how many relationships, how many moments, slip through our fingers because we fail to live them fully, with the intensity they deserve?”
From that guilt came something less expected: a near-desperate urge to be here, fully, right now. ‘Alive’ moves between grief and appetite without resolving the distance between them. It’s a song about the particular kind of restlessness that follows loss. The realization that you’ve been living at a remove from your own life, and the determination, however ragged, to stop.
The song carries that tension without spelling it out. There’s room in it for different kinds of longing: the loss of someone gone, the loss of time wasted, the specific ache of queer heartbreak, and the band has kept that space open deliberately. What holds it together isn’t a single reading but a single feeling: the hunger to be alive in a way you weren’t before.
Following a slot at Pukkelpop Festival this August, the band will return to the UK for a run of UK shows with The Clockworks this October. Kicking off at Brudenel Social Club on October 9th, the five date run will also see the trio play a show at London’s Scala on Friday October 16th. More info HERE.
BLUAI play the following UK Dates with The Clockworks:
OCTOBER
Fri 9th Brudenel Social Club, Leeds
Sat 10th Mama Roux’s, Manchester
Sun 11th Oran Mor, Glasgow
Wed 14th Academy 3, Manchester
Fri 16th Scala, London
Since the release of their acclaimed debut album Save It For Later in 2024, BLUAI (Catherine Smet, Mo Govaerts and Caitlin Talbut) have steadily built a name for themselves at home and abroad. After winning Belgium’s three leading music contests, the band became a fixture on national airwaves and festival line-ups, with appearances at Rock Werchter, Pukkelpop, Cactus Festival, Lokerse Feesten and more.
Beyond Belgium, BLUAI have expanded their reach across Europe and the UK with standout performances at Hyde Park (UK), Lowlands (NL), Vida Festival (ES), Frequency Festival (AT), Dot to Dot (UK) and Live at Leeds (UK), while earning “band to watch” features in Rolling Stone UK and The Independent.