Following the close of her debut solo headline run,
Hayley Williams has opened up about the experience in a new journal entry, describing how time on the road reshaped her sense of self.
The
Paramore vocalist recently brought a string of North American dates to a close in Los Angeles before heading to Salt Lake City for an appearance at
Kilby Block Party 2026. The shows are in support of her 2025 record '
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party', and a UK and European leg is set to follow, taking in two nights at London's
Roundhouse among other stops.
Posting to her Substack 'Live Journal', Williams wrote: "Tour turned me back into a night owl. Back into a teenaged dreamer with dark circles. But tour had me up every morning at 8:45, no alarm. On show days and other days too."
She went on: "I've not been this hungry for my days in quite some time. Nor my nights. Gorging on future memories while they're hot and ready. Practicing hyper-presence. Swimming in a spiral, in a familiar fishbowl, back around to lessons I didn't learn the first or fifty-leventh time. Hopefully my brain is stitching all this together."
"There are so many funerals and weddings to attend in our minds over the course of one lifetime. There's only so many life-death-life cycles one can take before the body will finally request a coma."
Turning to her routine since coming off the road, she said: "I've been waking up in my own bed around noon every morning for the last couple days. It felt so good to come home. But it felt so good to be out there too."
"I've tried on occasion, over the last 2 months, to make myself work out in writing what current growing pains and pleasure feel like. What I would want to remember most about these days."
"Björk said something once in an interview about how language and communicating was like trying to put the ocean through a straw. I think I am the ocean."
Photographs from her travels accompanied the post, taking in venue interiors, meals and snapshots of her downtime. Williams signed off the entry with the line: "No, fuck it, I'm the ocean."
A further 2026 run across North America and Latin America has also been announced under the title 'The Hayley Williams Show', promising solo material alongside "exciting surprises".
The dates for the UK and European tour are as follows:
JUNE
5 Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
8 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
11 Live Music Hall, Cologne, Germany
15
Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
16 Poolen, Copenhagen, Denmark
19 Roundhouse, London, UK
20 Roundhouse, London, UK
22 Academy, Manchester, UK
23 Academy, Manchester, UK
26 O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK
27 O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK
29
National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
30 National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland
