The Pains of Being Pure at Heart seem to be playing NYC tonight as a warm-up for 2025 reunion tour

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will play their first official show in seven years on Wednesday night in Porto, Portugal which is the start of their 2025 reunion tour. But it looks like they’re warming up tonight in the city that birthed them, NYC.

Sunday night, the band posted a flyer on their instagram for a show tonight (2/17) at Trans Pecos in Ridgewood with Lightheaded, Trinket and someone called Men With Ven (which is a deep cut Peep Show reference). Their note reads “come to @trans.pecos MONDAY NIGHT 2.17. @lightheadedband + @triiinket + a band that wants to make sure they still know how to play their songs.” The second slide of the post was a poster with their Portugal/Spain tour dates. Meanwhile, the ghostofcakeshop (Cake Shop was where TPOBPAH played their first show) instagram posted this note:

Pop Friends of a certain age, read between the very obvious lines here, and buy a ticket for tomorrow night at Trans Pecos!

This Monday at Trans Pecos…
Hey Parents : Maybe you wanna get away from all that ‘young adult friction’ on Monday? Maybe pre-game and arrive ‘higher than the stars’, feel like a ‘teenager in love’ again?

‘Come Saturday’ er, Monday, for some love that is fucking…. jangly

Wear Kurt Cobains Cardigan, your Side Ponytail, to be a Contender

For this show at Trans Pecos .. back where you ‘Belong’.

Etc Etc Etc. Etc etc etc etc etc.

The pic with the Instagram is clearly from Pains’ 2011 NYC Popfest show at Cake Shop with Kip Berman’s face covered with a picture of kipper snacks, Kurt Feldman’s face replace with Kurt Vonnegut’s and Peggy Wang’s face covered with a clothespin (which are called clothes pegs in the UK).

Tickets are still available to tonight’s Trans-Pecos show and the first band is on at 7 PM.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart playing the NYC edition of Nothing’s Slide Away festival at Brooklyn Paramount on April 26 with Swervedriver, and more. The band are also playing Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party in May but there’s been no official North American tour announcement. Yet, at least. All dates are listed below.

Pains had a few lineup changes over the years but this tour, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of their debut album, features original members Kip Berman, Peggy Wang a Kurt Feldman, plus longtime member Christoph Hochheim and Eddy Marshall who’s filling in for original bassist and new dad Alex Naidus.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – 2025 Tour Dates
Feb. 19, 2025 – Hotel Mouco – Porto, Portugal
Feb. 20, 2025 – Garufa Club – A Coruña, Spain
Feb. 21, 2025 – Kuivi Pop Up – Oviedo, Spain
Feb. 22, 2025 – Sala Zero – Tarragona, Spain
Feb. 23, 2025 – Lula Club – Madrid, Spain
Feb. 24, 2025 – Sala X – Sevilla, Spain
Feb. 26, 2025 – Sala Rem – Murcia, Spain
Feb. 27, 2025 – 16 TONELADAS | ROCK CLUB – València, Spain
Feb. 28, 2025 – Razzmatazz 2 – Barcelona, Spain
Mar. 1, 2025 – Espacio Las Armas – Zaragoza, Spain
Mar. 2, 2025 – Dabadaba – Donostia-san Sebastián, Spain
Apr. 26, 2025 – Slide Away Festival – Brooklyn, NY
Apr. 27, 2025 – Slide Away – Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
May. 18, 2025 – Kilby Block Party – Salt Lake City, UT
May. 23, 2025 – MI AMI IDROSCALO – Segrate, Italy
May. 24, 2025 – MI AMI Festival 2025 – Segrate, Italy
Nov. 14, 2025 – Arts Club – Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nov. 15, 2025 – Stereo – Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nov. 16, 2025 – Band on the Wall – Manchester, United Kingdom
Nov. 17, 2025 – old woollen – Leeds, United Kingdom
Nov. 18, 2025 – Metronome – Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nov. 19, 2025 – Esquires – Bedford, United Kingdom
Nov. 20, 2025 – Thekla – Bristol, United Kingdom
Nov. 21, 2025 – Concorde 2 – Brighton, United Kingdom
Nov. 22, 2025 – The Garage – London, United Kingdom