Beginning at Carmarthen Lyric Theatre, Wet Wet Wet’s 2026 UK acoustic tour will take the band to places they’ve never played before during their 40+ year career.

‘An Intimate Acoustic Evening with Wet Wet Wet’ will see founding member Graeme Clark, long -standing guitarist Graeme Duffin, and lead singer Kevin Simm, who joined the band in 2018, perform a full set of reworked Wet Wet Wet classics, with the odd story and anecdote from the band’s history thrown in for good measure.

With 15 million record sales worldwide, and 20 platinum certifications, the band is also gearing up to release a brand-new album this autumn that sees them revisit their songs in a stripped back style.

The idea for the album and for taking this new show on the road has developed from the band’s recent run of hugely successful full band tours, which have seen them perform to over 75,000 people at their headline shows alone during the last couple of years, plus countless more at festivals around the world. Every night, the trio perform a short set of three songs acoustically, in what has become a fan-favourite highlight of their live show.

Bassist Graeme Clark said: “We love nothing more than performing our songs live, so to have the chance of presenting them in a slightly different way is very inspiring.”

Guitarist Graeme Duffin said: “The songs take on a very different character acoustically, presenting a unique opportunity to engage with the audience on a more personal level. When the music is much more exposed, there are far less places to hide!”

Lead singer Kevin Simm added “I’m really excited to be going out on this acoustic tour with Graeme and Graeme, performing these great songs in an intimate atmosphere which will be something different for us and also fans of the band. It’s been a lot of fun recording the songs in a stripped back style and I can’t wait to perform them live that way too. We’ll be playing the hits of course, but in a way that people won’t get the chance to see too often.”

This special acoustic tour will offer fans a chance to see and hear the trio play Wet Wet Wet’s most iconic songs – including Sweet Little Mystery, Angel Eyes, Temptation, Sweet Surrender, and the legendary Love Is All Around – in an intimate setting, as they’ve never been performed before.

Book ‘An Intimate Acoustic Evening with Wet Wet Wet’ on May 13, 2026. Tickets go on sale at Carmarthen Lyric Theatre from July 11. Call 0345 2263510 or visit www.theatrausirgar.co.uk .

The ‘Strings Attached’ album, which will be released on CD and limited-edition coloured vinyl on October 3, contains reimagined versions of Wet Wet Wet’s biggest songs, plus a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain . The songs have been rearranged and recorded in a stripped-back style for the release using guitar, bass, drums, double bass, accordion, mandolin, etc., along with a string section on certain tracks.