Trash Boat have announced their first ever headline show at London’s KOKO, celebrating the 10th anniversary of debut album Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through.
Released in 2016, the album arrived as British alternative music was shifting toward something more emotionally open and ambitious, and for many fans it became the entry point into Trash Boat’s world of deeply personal songs delivered with real vulnerability. A decade on, those themes still sit at the core of the band’s identity even as their sound has travelled far from those early years.
The St Albans band have steadily carved their own path through modern rock since, from the breakthrough of ‘Don’t You Feel Amazing?‘ and ‘Crown Shyness‘ to the darker, more expansive Heaven Can Wait in 2024 and this year’s EP Even If I Never Get There. Along the way they’ve toured the UK, Europe and the US alongside Enter Shikari, Don Broco, I Prevail and The Offspring, earning support from BBC Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio and SiriusXM, plus festival appearances at Slam Dunk, Download, Warped Tour and 2000trees.
The KOKO show carries particular weight after the cancellation of the band’s 2025 tour and the subsequent 2026 film Getting There, which documents the challenges they’ve faced. The film premiered at The Rio Cinema in April and arrives on YouTube in late September.
Ten years on from that debut, the show stands as both a look back at where Trash Boat started and a snapshot of where they are now, still evolving, still pushing forward and still connecting with audiences in the deeply human way that first resonated. Given everything the band have been through, it feels like a moment genuinely worth celebrating, and we’ll be glad to see it.
Trash Boat headline London’s KOKO on Friday 2 October.
