Movements bring Happier Now to The NorVa on Halloween

Two months after their Will Yip–produced album, the band plays Norfolk tomorrow night with Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS on a stacked all-ages bill.

Some people will spend Halloween at a house party. A good chunk of Hampton Roads' emo and post-hardcore crowd will spend it on Monticello Avenue, because Movements play The NorVa tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 31.

Doors are at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. It's all ages, tickets are through AXS, and the bill is deep: Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS all play before the headliner. If you're the kind of person who skips openers, this isn't the night to do it.

The reason for the tour is Happier Now, the album Movements released on Sept. 4 through Fearless Records. They made it with producer Will Yip, whose credits include Turnstile, Title Fight, Nothing and Quicksand, and you can hear that lineage on it. The single "Separate" came out in July, ahead of the album, and the album name doubles as the tour name: the Happier Now USA Tour.

Norfolk sits near the end of the East Coast leg. The run has already been through Denver, Pittsburgh, New York's Terminal 5, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C., where they played Wednesday. After us the tour keeps heading south and west through November, and the band has already announced a UK and European run for February and March 2027, with Gouge Away supporting on the British dates. So this is Hampton Roads' shot at hearing Happier Now live this year.

If you're the kind of person who skips openers, this isn't the night to do it.

The support slots deserve their own sentence. Balance and Composure, Midrift and NIIS make this a four-band night.

The NorVa is the right place for it. At 1,500 capacity, it's big enough to feel like an event. A crowd that knows every word, a band two months into a new record, and a room that's hosted touring bands like this one for years: that's a good Halloween, costume or not.

Plan for a long night, since four bands starting at 7:30 means a late finish. Eat before you go, check AXS for what's left, and if you do show up in costume, pick one you can mosh in.

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