Recharged and looking sharply at a world gone sideways, Staines’ finest Hard-Fi today take a stunning left turn and unveil brand new Latin-inspired single ‘Digo Nada’, taken from their long-awaited new studio album Sweating Someone Else’s Fever, their first in 15 years, out on June 19th via V2 Records.
‘Digo Nada’ – Spanish for ‘I Say Nothing’ – finds frontman Richard Archer bringing in his love of Cumbia music, recruiting UK-based Colombian rapper Mike Kalle for a Gorillaz-nodding moment of unexpected excitement. “My wife’s from Central America and I got into Cumbia music because of Joe Strummer, then going out to El Salvador with her and hearing more tunes and getting into stuff like Manu Chao – I liked it and it felt quite punk rock,” he explains. Listen here.
The music video, shot in Comuna 13, Medellín, Colombia, also nods to the wider cultural backdrop where football is a major part of everyday life, with anticipation already building ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicking off later this month. It features freestyle champions Juliana Jaramillo & Sebastian Peña Fs – watch here.
Written and recorded throughout 2025 in their synonymous ex-taxi-office-turned studio Cherry Lips, and produced by frontman Richard Archer alongside longtime collaborator Wolsey White, the forthcoming album looks outside the window to the fractured present, and paints it in bold musical strokes, with the same sharp-eyed social commentary that powered their classic debut Stars of CCTV, but with fresh perspective, new sounds and hard-earned freedom. Named after an El Salvador saying about not fighting other people’s ego-based battles, Sweating Someone Else’s Fever represents Hard-Fi unburdened: playing together again, free from pressure, making music for the joy of it.
The album follows the band’s reunion sparked during lockdown, when Archer livestreamed Stars of CCTV and was stunned by the warmth of the response. A comeback show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town sold out in minutes, reminding the quartet why they started. From there came 2024’s Don’t Go Making Plans EP, and then, naturally, new music.
And with that, the band have announced a run of in-store shows to coincide with the album’s release, before heading into festival season and taking on three huge headline dates in December – London, O2 Academy Brixton, O2 Institute Birmingham & O2 Ritz Manchester, seeing them back where they belong, on the country’s biggest indoor stages.
IN-STORES (Tickets HERE)
June
Thu 18th Kingston-upon-Thames, Banquet Records (6pm)
& The Fighting Cocks (9pm) SOLD OUT
Fri 19th London, Rough Trade East (7pm)
Sat 20th Southampton, Vinilo Record Store (6pm)
Sun 21st Brighton, Resident Music (6:30pm)
Mon 22nd Glasgow, Assai Records (1pm) & Edinburgh, Assai Records (5pm)
Tue 23rd Dundee, Assai Records (1pm) & Aberdeen, Assai Records (5pm)
Thu 25th Liverpool, Jacaranda Baltic (7pm)
FESTIVAL DATES
July
Sat 11th Fix Fest, Northampton
Sat 18th We Are Wirral, Birkenhead
Sat 25th Kirkstall Abbey Leeds
Thu 30th Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
Fri 31st Kendal Calling, Cumbria
August
Sun 9th The Great Fete, Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire,
Fri 28th Victorious, Portsmouth
Sat 29th Camper Calling, Warwickshire
November
Sat 14th Shiiine On, Minehead
UK HEADLINE DATES
December
Thu 3rd London, O2 Academy Brixton
Fri 4th O2 Institute Birmingham
Sat 5th O2 Ritz Manchester
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