THE WANTON BISHOPS – Share Lyric Video For Single “Gonna Be Fine”; Headline European Tour Starts This Week With Supporting Act Dubinski

Beirut Blues The Wanton Bishops, the vision of  Beirut native Nader Mansour, will bring their latest album “Under the Sun”, a homage to Beirut and exploration of its identity, to Europe with an extensive headline tour which starts this week in Haarlem. The Wanton Bishops are joined by the rock quartet Dubinski, which fuses elements of Franz Ferdinand, Parquet Courts, The Clash, Maximo Park, and even Paul Simon. Full dates available below.

Nader speaks on the tour: “The level of excitement for this tour is only equaled by the level of fear! The fear or getting back at it after a long forced hiatus, the fear of whether our “fans” are still out there and if they’ll show up, and the fear of not delivering to our own expectations – it’s exhilarating, to be sure”

Ahead of the first show, The Wanton Bishops are releasing the lyric video for their lead single “Gonna Be Fine”, a truly satirical track with lazy sarcastic vocals. With a heavy hip hop beat and riffing guitars, this jam delves into the world of internet healers and motivational figures preying upon people’s anxieties of war to sell anything for a ‘like’, a ‘share’, or a ‘comment’.

Vocalist Nader Mansour speaks on the track, “We’ve been led to believe that the anxious inadequacy we’re feeling is a personal problem and a personal responsibility, that the world is all ok, and it’s up to us to get our shit together: meditate, repeat a mantra, go to therapy, take anti-depressants, consume, have sex… Big business, politics, big pharma, and the wellbeing industry are all in on it. “Gonna be fine” is the sarcastic realisation that contrary to popular belief: it is the world that’s fucked up, and we’re genuinely doing the best we can! What’s a bloody mantra gonna do to someone living in a war torn country? Zilch, nothing”.

The Wanton Bishops, though a band by every definition of the word, is primarily the vision of one eclectic man – Nader Mansour. A cultural anomaly, considering the fact that he was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Nader as lead singer is the very epitome of a howling blues man.

Following the release of debut album ‘Sleep With The Lights On’, a Delta blues record inspired by the likes of RL Burnside and Muddy Waters, Nader journeyed to America’s deep south to experience the roots of Mississippi blues. The experience spawned a musical epiphany, as he returned home to Lebanon a changed man with a newly inspired musical vision. Nader’s music slowly emerged from the Delta swamps into the Lebanese mountains.

Full Dates HERE. Listen to “Under The Sun” HERE.

The music of The Wanton Bishops reflects Nader’s homeland, his people, and his personal journey. To quote Nader: “I’m finally getting to the core of the music I want to create, and that core is scarily confused, yet uniquely special, much like our own identity as Lebanese people living in Beirut, that eternal cultural crossroad”.
THE WANTON BISHOPS 2025 EUROPEAN TOUR

January 15th – Patronaat (Haarlem, NL)
January 17th – 4AD (Diksmuide, BE)
January 19th – Nochtspeicher (Hamburg, DE)
January 21st – Café V lese (Prague, CZ)
January 22nd – Durer Kert (Budapest, HU)
January 23rd – Arena (Vienna, AT)
January 25th – Privatclub (Berlin, DE)
January 26th – Helios 37 (Cologne, DE)
January 27th – Import/Export (Munich, DE)
January 31st – Papiersaal (Zurich, CH)
February 1st – Café Bar Mokka (Thun, CH)