They're due to perform their 2011 debut album 'What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?' in full as part of their 15th anniversary celebrations
By Laura Molloy 28th November 2025
The Vaccines. Credit: Wrenne Evans
Tileyard North have announced the first headliners for the inaugural edition of their ‘Live At Tileyard North’ series.
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‘Live At Tileyard North’ will be a new outdoor concert series in Wakefield, taking place over Summer 2026.
AdvertisementEarlier this week, they revealed that The Vaccines would be the series’ first-ever headliners. They’re due to perform their 2011 debut album ‘What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?’ in full as part of their ongoing 15th anniversary celebrations.
Wakefield residents with WF1, WF2, WF3, WF4, WF5 and WF6 postcodes were given exclusive first access to tickets, ahead of general sale commencing today (November 28) at 10am. Tickets are available here.
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First released on March 11, 2011, the band’s debut album entered the UK Albums Chart at Number Four and spawned six singles: ‘Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’, ‘Post Break-Up Sex’, ‘If You Wanna’, ‘All In White’, ‘Nørgaard’ and ‘Wetsuit’.
They’ll begin celebrations with a UK tour next year, which kicks off in March.
RecommendedIn other news, the band released their last album, ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’, last year. In a three-star review of the record, NME wrote that while “it might not offer anything new”, the band are “good at what they do, even if it’s nothing particularly groundbreaking.”
The year before, The Vaccines spoke to NME about the “hopeful and euphoric” ten-track offering, with frontman Justin Young saying the record felt “nostalgic” to them.
“Something I’ve said about our music so many times is there’s euphoria and melancholia in equal measure,” he said. “I don’t think this is a sad or depressing record – I actually think it’s quite hopeful and euphoric – but I do think it has these melancholic undertones.”
He continued: “It’s more cohesive than most [of our] records in terms of songs, but sound as well. It feels like we achieved what we set out to achieve.
Advertisement“There’s this brief love affair that you get to have with the album you’ve made between finishing it and everybody else hearing it, and before people telling you it’s not pretty enough or clever enough, or whatever it may be. I’ve really enjoyed that period – I’ve played the album to death and it’s given me a lot of joy, so hopefully it’ll give other people joy too.”
