The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

On Friday, November 20, 2026, the London band The Howlers play Wishlist Club in Rome for the release of their second album, Heavy: doors open at 21:00, opening band at 21:45, The Howlers on stage at 22:30. The club is at Via dei Volsci 126/b, in San Lorenzo, about a kilometer and a half as the crow flies from Termini station, where metro lines A and B meet: from there you can walk or take surface transportation, to be checked on the ATAC journey planner. The ticket costs 13.50 euros on the presale circuit indicated by Wishlist, which presents the evening. The event is for over-18s only.

The Howlers at Wishlist: date, times and tickets

The Howlers concert at Wishlist Club is scheduled for Friday, November 20, 2026, with doors at 21:00. The club's presentation announces the highly acclaimed Londoners live in Rome for the release of their second album, Heavy.

The evening's schedule

The sales page publishes a precise schedule: doors at 21:00, opening band at 21:45, The Howlers at 22:30. The name of the opening band isn't given. If you only want to see the main concert, you can arrive around 22:15. If you want a spot near the stage, arrive when doors open.

The ticket

The ticket costs 13.50 euros on the presale circuit indicated by Wishlist, which is also the party presenting the event. It's a club price, in line with the size of the hall. The circuit keeps tickets in digital format, in its app: arrive with a charged battery and the circuit's app already open, so you don't hold up the line at the entrance.

Adults only

The evening is listed as an event for over-18s. Bring an ID: in a small club checks at the entrance are quick, but you may be asked for it.

Heavy, The Howlers' second album

Heavy is The Howlers' second studio album, released on October 9, 2026, on Frontiers Label Group. It arrives six weeks before the Rome concert: Wishlist will hear it live when the record is just out.

The 12 tracks

The tracklist published by record stores has 12 songs: Cold Sweat, Late Nights, Viper, L.A Morning, Once In A Lifetime, Night Crawling, D.R.I.V.E, Heavy, You Can Be So Cruel, White Heat, Change My Name and Goodbye. Night Crawling and You Can Be So Cruel are the two comeback singles, released in 2025. Viper is the single that announced the album, released together with a video.

A record made remotely

The label's presentation describes an unusual working method. The singer and songwriter Adam Young and the producer Chris Ostler, of Black Honey, a longtime collaborator, decided to avoid the recording studio as much as possible: they recorded a series of songs by exchanging files over video call platforms, working remotely for months. Only at the end did they go into the two bands' rehearsal rooms, to record Toby Richards' drums.

The theme of being modern

In the same presentation Adam Young tells of an executive at a major label who, after a rehearsal, had dismissed the band as not very modern. The word stuck in his head, and the new album also grew from the challenge of making a record that stayed true to the band but sounded contemporary, moving away from traditional methods and instruments.

The editions

Heavy comes out on CD and vinyl, with colored editions: a transparent blue vinyl and, for independent stores, a crystal vinyl with an inverted cover. If you collect records, the concert will give you a chance to buy a copy, if there's a merch table.

Who are The Howlers: the band's story

The Howlers are a rock band from London. Their official website presents them as East London desert rockers. The name coincides with the project of the singer and songwriter Adam Young, who since 2025 has carried it on as a duo with the drummer Toby Richards.

The first album

At the end of 2024 the band independently released its debut album, What You've Got To Lose To Win It All, written and conceived by Adam Young to express the emotional weight of a personal loss. According to the label's presentation, the record was very well received by critics in Europe, and the shows on the tour that followed sold out.

The 2024 crisis

Behind the success, though, the lineup had cracked. The presentation of Heavy says the weight of an independent release had fallen almost entirely on Adam Young, and that the new songs the singer wanted to play on tour had met resistance within the band, only to become among the audience's favorites. In November 2024, a few days after the end of a sold-out tour, all the other members left the band.

The rebirth as a duo

The management and staff, the same source says, asked the singer what had really changed, since the band had always been him. With the new year Adam Young rebuilt The Howlers as a duo, together with the drummer Toby Richards, and recorded the singles of the rebirth, Night Crawling and You Can Be So Cruel, choosing the first for the comeback.

The 2025 European tour

Night Crawling came out shortly before the band's European tour, which according to the label sold out in eight countries. It was the testing ground for the new songs and the new lineup: Adam Young has said that playing as a duo gave him back the joy of the stage.

The FLG deal

After the comeback the band signed with Frontiers Label Group, an independent label, which releases Heavy. The album was announced in May 2026 together with the single Viper.

What you'll hear at a Howlers concert

At a Howlers concert you'll hear guitar rock, with imagery the official website sums up in the formula of East London desert rockers: warm guitars, street rhythms, nocturnal atmospheres. The band's most played song on the sales page is Viper.

The setlist

The setlist hasn't been published. It's reasonable to expect many songs from Heavy, just released, and some tracks from the debut album, but only the evening will tell which. The two comeback singles, Night Crawling and You Can Be So Cruel, were played live on the 2025 European tour.

The live lineup

Sources present The Howlers as a duo, with Adam Young on vocals and guitar and Toby Richards on drums. The label's presentation doesn't say if the duo is joined by other musicians live.

The album title

Heavy is a title that lends itself to two readings: the sound, weightier, and the baggage of experiences the album comes from. The label's presentation stresses the second: a record shaped by its author's experiences, a confident return for a band built around a songwriter who has been through many difficulties.

Adam Young, the songwriter behind The Howlers

Adam Young is the singer and songwriter of The Howlers, and according to the presentation of Heavy he's the real center of the project: he wrote and conceived the first album, carried almost alone the weight of its independent release and, after the 2024 split, rebuilt the band.

A record born of grief

What You've Got To Lose To Win It All, the 2024 debut, came from Adam Young's need to express and share the emotional weight of a personal loss. It's a fact that also helps to read Heavy: the new album, the presentation says, is once again shaped by its author's experiences, but this time written by a musician energized by his newfound independence.

The stage regained

In the label's presentation Adam Young says that playing as a duo, the way the band was rebuilt, changed his perspective on his career and gave him back something that had been taken from him. It's a statement that says a lot about the spirit in which The Howlers arrive on tour: not as the old band cut in half, but as a project that has found a new form.

The staff's support

The same source reports that, after the split, manager, agent and the whole staff sided with the singer. For Adam Young, he says, it was a confirmation: the band had always been him, and it could go on being him.

Why see them in a club

A band touring a just-released record, in a hall like Wishlist, offers the most direct listening possible: no distance between stage and audience, no screens, the sound of the guitar and drums arriving unfiltered. For a project the presentation describes as reborn on stage, during the 2025 European tour, it's in our opinion the setting in which the new songs are best understood. It's also the situation in which the audience can exchange a few words with the musicians at the end of the evening, something impossible in big venues.

A curious fact about The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

The most unusual curious fact concerns the way Heavy was made. A rock album, a genre that lives on rehearsal rooms and amplifiers, was built for months over video call platforms, with the singer and the producer exchanging recordings to mix and reshape. The stated goal was to avoid the studio as much as possible. On November 20, at Wishlist, those songs born remotely will be played a few meters from the audience: the contrast between their origin and the stage is the most interesting part of the evening.

The second curious fact concerns the producer. Chris Ostler plays in Black Honey, a band from Brighton, and is described as a longtime collaborator of Adam Young. The presentation says it was he who challenged the singer to write better at every step.

The third concerns the jacket. The video for Viper, the single that announced the album, shows Adam Young in a fringed leather jacket: a detail the music press noticed and that says a lot about the band's desert rock imagery.

Wishlist Club, the concert venue

Wishlist Club is at Via dei Volsci 126/b, in San Lorenzo. The tourism portal of Roma Capitale describes it as an eclectic club for indie rock: a small hall, with the stage a few meters from the front rows.

A street of clubs

Via dei Volsci is one of San Lorenzo's music streets: a few dozen meters from Wishlist there are other spaces, like Zweigstelle Capitain at number 128, Props at 133 and Esc Atelier at 159. For a rock band touring European clubs it's the ideal size: no barriers, no big screens, the sound coming straight at you.

Contacts and program

For information the club gives the number 349 7494659 and the address wishlistclub@libero.it. The calendar is published on its social channels. This autumn Wishlist has hosted very different nights, from Crocodiles to Piano Quinquennale and The Pischellis. For the full profile there's the Wishlist Club page.

Something nobody tells you about The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

What's rarely said is that the band coming to Rome isn't the same one that released the first album. In November 2024 all the members except the singer left The Howlers. The band rebuilt itself as a duo, with a new drummer, and Heavy is the first record by this lineup. If you got to know the band with What You've Got To Lose To Win It All, at Wishlist you'll find a renewed project, with a sound the presentation describes as more modern.

The second rarely mentioned thing concerns the schedule. Doors open at 21:00, but The Howlers take the stage at 22:30, after the opening band at 21:45. In a club this size, though, the front rows are decided in the first half hour: if you want to see up close, arrive early and listen to the opening band too.

The third is practical: the concert is for adults only, and in San Lorenzo Friday night is the busiest night of the week. The streets around Via dei Volsci are full of students and club crowds: arrive on foot or by public transportation, not by car.

My advice for attending The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

My advice is to listen to Heavy in the weeks between its release, on October 9, and the concert. A 12-track record can be heard in full in one evening, and arriving at Wishlist knowing Viper, Night Crawling and You Can Be So Cruel changes the experience: in a small club the audience singing is part of the concert.

Second point: treat the evening as a neighborhood night out. Dinner in San Lorenzo around 20:00, into Wishlist around 21:30, the opening band, then The Howlers at 22:30. The after-show, on the sidewalk of Via dei Volsci or in a neighborhood beer hall, is part of the evening.

Third point: plan your trip back in advance. By the end of the concert it'll be past midnight, and surface service switches to the night lines. The simplest solution is to walk back to Termini, a busy route on Friday night, or take a taxi on Via Tiburtina.

How to get to Wishlist Club

Wishlist Club is at Via dei Volsci 126/b, in San Lorenzo, about a kilometer and a half as the crow flies from Termini station.

On foot from Termini

Termini is the hub where metro lines A and B meet and where the trains arrive. From there you walk east, beyond the Aurelian Walls, to San Lorenzo: it's the simplest option if you're coming from another part of the city, and the route is busy on Friday night.

By surface transportation

San Lorenzo is crossed by Via Tiburtina and served by tram and bus lines linking it to Termini and the east side. Check lines, stops and evening times before going out with the ATAC journey planner. After midnight service switches to the night lines.

By car and taxi

Parking in San Lorenzo on a Friday night is very hard: narrow streets, few spaces, many residents' cars. For the trip back a taxi is the most convenient solution. Roma Capitale's radio taxi answers at 060609.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that many bands are born and die within a few years, and that the departure of almost all the members usually marks the end of a project. The opposite case is told less often: a band that survives its own split because its core was, from the start, a single person. That's the story of The Howlers according to the presentation of Heavy: the name stays, the singer and songwriter stays, and the project starts again with a new drummer and a new working method.

The second rarely mentioned fact concerns independence. The band's first album was self-produced and released without a label, and the organizational weight of that choice was one of the reasons for the 2024 crisis. Heavy instead comes out on a structured independent label, Frontiers Label Group: a step many bands on the independent scene know well.

The third concerns the place. Via dei Volsci, Wishlist's street, has a history of music and politics: in the years of the protest movement it housed the headquarters of the Comitati autonomi operai, and it was the street of the marble workers who worked for the nearby Verano cemetery. Today it's one of San Lorenzo's club streets, where foreign bands on tour find an attentive audience.

The right photo to take at The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

The right photo of a rock concert in a small club is the one that holds stage and audience together: from the back of the hall, phone raised, the heads of the front rows backlit and, on stage, Adam Young's guitar and Toby Richards' drums lit up. In a duo the musicians are few and close together: it's one of the rare chances to frame the whole band in a single shot.

Flash, in a club, is disruptive and flattens everything: better to lock the exposure on the stage lights and shoot in burst. The best moment is the start of a song, when the lights change. Two or three photos are enough. The rest of the concert should be lived without a screen in front of you.

The second photo is taken outside: Via dei Volsci at night, with the Wishlist entrance and the crowd on the sidewalk after the concert, is the image of San Lorenzo as a music neighborhood. If you buy the record, the cover of Heavy next to your ticket for the evening is the simplest souvenir.

Some important events that happened here in history

San Lorenzo has one of Rome's most intense 20th-century histories. The neighborhood was born in the late 19th century around the 1865 freight yard and the housing built between 1884 and 1888 for workers and railwaymen. Its streets, according to an 1887 street-naming resolution, are dedicated to the Italic peoples, and Via dei Volsci is one of them. In 1907 Maria Montessori opened the first Casa dei Bambini here.

On October 30, 1922, in the days of the March on Rome, Fascist squads attacked the neighborhood, which had a strong socialist and communist presence: by the end of the day eight people were dead. On July 19, 1943, at 11:03, came the first Allied bombing of Rome: the target was the freight yard, hundreds of bombers hit the neighborhood and nearby areas and the victims numbered about 3,000. Pope Pius XII went in person among the rubble.

In the years of the protest movement Via dei Volsci housed the headquarters of the Comitati autonomi operai. From the 1980s the neighborhood, close to the university, filled with students, artists and bars, and the street became one of the live music streets. On November 20, 2026, on this street, a London band reborn as a duo presents its second album.

Who has passed through The Howlers at Wishlist Club, November 20, 2026

The Howlers' story has seen, first of all, Adam Young, singer and writer of all the songs, and Toby Richards, the drummer of the new lineup. Behind the record is Chris Ostler, producer and longtime collaborator, who plays in Black Honey. From the band's first lineup, which broke up in November 2024, came the musicians who played on the first album and the tour that followed.

The Wishlist stage has seen, this autumn alone, very different bands and artists: Crocodiles, Piano Quinquennale, The Pischellis with their Britpop in Roman dialect. It's a program that alternates foreign guests and the Roman scene, and that makes the club one of San Lorenzo's reference points for independent rock.

The streets around Via dei Volsci have seen figures who shaped the city's history: Maria Montessori in 1907, Pius XII among the rubble of 1943, the activists of Autonomia operaia, generations of Sapienza students. On November 20 two East London musicians join them.

Around Wishlist: what to see in San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo is worth a walk before the concert if you arrive in the afternoon: within a few hundred meters there's an early Christian basilica, the city's great monumental cemetery and the university campus.

San Lorenzo fuori le Mura

The basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, on Piazzale del Verano, stands over the tomb of the martyr Lawrence. In late November it gets dark early: visit in the early afternoon.

Verano

Next to the basilica lies the Verano cemetery, Rome's monumental cemetery, also linked to Via dei Volsci by the historic work of the marble workers.

Toward Villa Torlonia

If you have a whole afternoon, you can go as far as Villa Torlonia, on Via Nomentana, and come back toward San Lorenzo for dinner.

San Lorenzo, Wishlist's neighborhood

San Lorenzo is an area of Rome's Municipio II, east of Termini station, squeezed between the Aurelian Walls, the rail yard and the Verano. It's one of the most distinctive neighborhoods in the city, and one of the centers of student nightlife.

A neighborhood born with the railway

The neighborhood was born in the late 19th century, with the 1865 freight yard and, in 1879, the tramway to Tivoli. Between 1884 and 1888 housing for workers and railwaymen was built. In 1887 a street-naming resolution dedicated the streets to the peoples of ancient Italy. Via dei Volsci, Wishlist's street, bears the name of one of these peoples.

The students' neighborhood

Its closeness to the Sapienza university campus has made San Lorenzo, since the postwar years, the students' neighborhood. Low-rent shops, workshops, cheap trattorias and then bars and clubs turned the working-class streets into one of Rome's live music hubs.

A step from Termini

Termini station is about a kilometer and a half as the crow flies from Wishlist. If you're coming from outside Rome, or staying near the station, the concert is easy to reach on foot.

How to plan The Howlers evening

A Friday concert with doors at 21:00 and the headliner at 22:30 lends itself to a whole evening in San Lorenzo.

The afternoon

If you have time, you can spend the early afternoon at the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura and the Verano, while there's still light, then stop at one of the neighborhood's cafés before dinner.

Dinner and the concert

Dinner around 20:00, into Wishlist around 21:30 for the opening band, then The Howlers at 22:30. The length of the evening hasn't been published.

Getting back

After the concert you can head back on foot toward Termini, by taxi from Via Tiburtina or on the night lines. If you're coming from outside Rome by train, check the last useful connection in advance: after midnight there are few departures from Termini.

Where to eat in San Lorenzo before the concert

San Lorenzo is the students' neighborhood, and you can eat well for little. With doors at 21:00 and The Howlers on stage at 22:30, there's plenty of time for a sit-down dinner: pizzerias and Roman trattorias, bakeries and pizza-by-the-slice shops for a quick meal, cuisines from other countries. On Friday night places fill up early: book or sit down by 20:00. After the concert the neighborhood's beer halls, many devoted to craft beer, are the natural destination if you want to stretch the evening.

Accessibility and practical tips

The published information doesn't specify access conditions at Wishlist for people with motor disabilities. If you use a wheelchair, contact the club before the evening, at 349 7494659, to find out about entrances and spaces.

What to bring

An ID, since the event is for adults only, a jacket to keep handy for the wait at the entrance, earplugs if you're up front. A big backpack, in a small hall, bothers everyone.

Late November in San Lorenzo

In late November university classes are in full swing, the clubs have resumed their programs and on Friday night the neighborhood's streets are packed. With standard time, darkness comes early and evenings are cool, often rainy: a folding umbrella is the right choice, because in a small club there's no room for big ones.

Frequently asked questions about The Howlers in Rome

When do The Howlers play in Rome?

The Howlers play in Rome on Friday, November 20, 2026, at Wishlist Club, at Via dei Volsci 126/b in San Lorenzo. Doors open at 21:00, the opening band plays at 21:45 and The Howlers take the stage at 22:30.

How much is a ticket for The Howlers at Wishlist?

A ticket for The Howlers at Wishlist Club costs 13.50 euros on the presale circuit indicated by the club, which presents the evening. The event is for over-18s only.

Who are The Howlers?

The Howlers are a rock band from London led by the singer and songwriter Adam Young. After the 2024 debut album and the departure of the other members, the band rebuilt itself as a duo with the drummer Toby Richards and releases its second album, Heavy.

When does Heavy, The Howlers' new album, come out?

Heavy, The Howlers' second album, came out on October 9, 2026, on Frontiers Label Group. It has 12 tracks, including the singles Night Crawling, You Can Be So Cruel and Viper, and was produced with Chris Ostler.

How do you get to Wishlist Club?

Wishlist Club, at Via dei Volsci 126/b, is in San Lorenzo, about a kilometer and a half as the crow flies from Termini station, served by metro lines A and B. From Termini continue on foot or by surface transportation, to be checked on the ATAC journey planner.

Who opens for The Howlers?

The listing for The Howlers concert at Wishlist Club gives an opening band at 21:45, but doesn't publish its name. The Howlers play at 22:30.

Is The Howlers concert suitable if you don't know the band?

Yes: The Howlers concert at Wishlist Club is a good chance to discover the band, because the ticket costs 13.50 euros and the club is small. If you're starting from scratch, listen first to the singles Viper and Night Crawling.

Who produced The Howlers' new album?

The Howlers' new album, Heavy, was recorded by Adam Young with the producer Chris Ostler, of Black Honey, a longtime collaborator of the band. The two worked remotely for months, going into a rehearsal room only to record Toby Richards' drums.

What's near Wishlist Club?

Wishlist Club is in San Lorenzo's nightlife area, near the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, the Verano cemetery and the Sapienza university campus. On Via dei Volsci there are also other clubs and art spaces.

Final advice on The Howlers at Wishlist

A London band reborn as a duo, a second album made remotely and just released, a San Lorenzo club with the stage a few meters from the front row and a 13.50-euro ticket: in our opinion it's one of the most interesting rock concerts of a late-November Friday in Rome. Listen to Heavy in the weeks before, have dinner in San Lorenzo, get in on time for the opening band and walk back toward Termini talking over the evening.

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