British grunge-rock-metal trio Dinosaur Pile-Up play The Drill on their UK headline tour, marking their biggest UK shows yet.
Dinosaur Pile-Up play The Drill on Wednesday 24 March, part of a UK headline tour around their latest album, I've Felt Better. It's a British grunge-rock-metal trio fronted by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matt Bigland, who took the band's name from a scene in Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong where dinosaurs literally pile up.
Bigland, from west Yorkshire, draws on the melodic fuzz of early Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins and Rage Against The Machine, and played every instrument on many of the band's recordings. After 2010's Growing Pains and 2013's Nature Nurture, the line-up settled with drummer Mike Sheils and bassist Jim Cratchley, and they released 2015's Eleven Eleven, which they consider their strongest album to date. A Parlophone deal brought 2019's Celebrity Mansions, heavy rock dipped in sugar, closing with 'Long Way Down', a song about the father who died in a plane crash when Bigland was eight.
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The band returned from a brief hiatus following Bigland's health struggles and released a fifth album, I've Felt Better, in August 2025. These March 2027 dates are billed as their biggest UK headline shows yet, and the set will be built around that new record. Standing tickets are £22.00 including fees, and doors open at 19:00 at The Drill on Free School Lane.
