CHVRCHES pick Spokane again: Knitting Factory on March 3, first time back since 2022

The Scottish synth-pop trio return to Sprague Avenue on a Wednesday in March with a new album, "All the King's Men," six weeks old.

Plenty of tours skip Spokane on the way from Boise to the coast. CHVRCHES haven't, twice now. The band last played here on Oct. 2, 2022, at the Knitting Factory Concert House, and they are coming back to the same room on Sprague Avenue next spring.

CHVRCHES play the Knitting Factory on Wednesday, March 3, 2027, at 8 p.m. The show was announced Oct. 21, and both the Ticketmaster listing and the band's own tour page carry it, with Spokane sitting between Boise on March 2 and Vancouver on March 5. A presale opened Tuesday, Oct. 27; TicketNews reported general sales for the North American run were set for today, Friday, Oct. 30. The Knitting Factory holds about 1,500, so this is a much closer look at the band than most cities on the tour will get.

The tour exists because of a record. *All the King's Men*, CHVRCHES' fifth studio album, is out Jan. 22, 2027, according to chvrch.es. It is their first full-length since 2021's *Screen Violence*, a gap of more than five years by the announcement coverage. It has 11 tracks, and the lead single, "Roses," arrived in September. By early March, Spokane will have had about six weeks with the whole thing.

The North American leg opens in Philadelphia on Feb. 13 and ends in Los Angeles on March 14, so Spokane lands late in the run, when a band has the new songs worked in and the set settled. After that, the band heads to the UK and Ireland in April and May. No other Inland Northwest date has been announced, which makes this the stop for anyone between the Cascades and western Montana.

It is worth saying what kind of room this is for a band like CHVRCHES. The Knitting Factory is a downtown general-admission hall, and at 1,500 it is roughly half the size of the theater they will play in Seattle three nights later. That changes the show. In a room this size, the synths and the low end land on the floor rather than floating up into a balcony, and the people in the back are still close enough to see faces.

A Wednesday also changes the crowd. Weeknight shows in Spokane tend to draw the people who really wanted to be there — the fans who have been waiting since that October 2022 night, plus the ones who found the band this fall through "Roses."

Spokane gets CHVRCHES at half the size of the Seattle room, three nights earlier.

If you are going, get tickets early; general admission at a room this size doesn't last long once a tour is on sale. Then give the new album a few spins in January. By March 3 the songs will be ready, and so will the room.

Sources: CHVRCHES – All the King's Men (official site, tour dates) (chvrch.es); Ticketmaster: CHVRCHES – Live 2027, Knitting Factory Spokane (ticketmaster.com); Knitting Factory Spokane (sp.knittingfactory.com); TicketNews: CHVRCHES announce 2027 North American tour and new album (ticketnews.com); Melodic Magazine: CHVRCHES announce new album All the King's Men and 2027 tour dates (melodicmag.com)