MisterWives Will Be Gone ‘For a While’ After Next Tour: ‘This Isn’t Goodbye’

MisterWives will be taking a break. On Monday, the Mandy Lee-fronted quintet announced that the group will be pausing “for a while” following the conclusion of their upcoming Just For One Night tour .

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“It has been the biggest privilege of our lives to tour together for over a decade straight and while this isn’t goodbye, this is the last tour we will be doing for a while,” the band wrote in a letter to fans on Instagram.

The band — comprising Lee, Mike Murphy, Marc Campbell, William Hehir, and Etienne Bowler — asked their “MisterWifeys” to help select the songs on their tour’s setlist “to celebrate all the incomparable memories we’ve made and the eras we’ve shared together.”

“Thank you for letting our music into your world and forever changing ours,” the band wrote. “Can’t wait to see you in your tartan, loofahs, flowers, and as always, glitter.”

MisterWives will commence their upcoming tour on Oct. 6 at Austin City Limits, before stops in Nashville, Los Angeles, Boston, Philly, and Orlando through early November. “Before we say goodbye to the road for a while we want to know what songs you absolutely need to sing your hearts out to Just For One Night!” they captioned the post.

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The announcement of the break comes several weeks after the group dropped their reimagined album version of Nosebleeds , titled Encore , which heard the band revisit the songs on their album last year with special guests, including Pvris, Charlotte Sands, and Alice Merton.

The band spoke to Rolling Stone in 2023 about how they faced  “the perfect storm for how bands fall apart” before making Nosebleeds . Lee and drummer Etienne Bowler announced they’d be separating romantically but would continue in the group in 2020, trumpeter Jesse Blum revealed that he was leaving the band after eight years in 2021, and that same year, the group was dropped by their label, Fueled by Ramen.

“Still standing despite [all the obstacles], felt like a pretty big triumph and moment to allow ourselves to create our fourth record with no limitations and without feeling boxed into what others might expect from us,” Lee told Rolling Stone at the time. “Being kept high up in the Nosebleeds and on the outside of where you want to be has been a reoccurring dynamic in my life, especially in an industry that has profited off moving the goalpost.”

MisterWives formed in late 2012, and have released four studio albums through the years, including 2015’s Our Own House , 2017’s Connect the Dots , 2020’s Superbloom , and last year’s Nosebleeds . Their first album was preceded by their EP Reflections , which was led by their hit single of the same name.

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