Dinosaur Pile-Up

On Saturday, July 18th, 2026 the Community Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present Dinosaur Pile-Up and untitled at the WOW Hall.
Overcoming life-threatening illness and finding fresh perspective on true priorities, English alt. rock supremos Dinosaur Pile-Up roar back from the brink with defiant fifth album I’ve Felt Better…
‘I’ve felt better…’ started as a makeshift mantra. Unwilling to sift through the layers of trauma with every friend who checked-in to see how he was doing – indeed, often unable to speak through a mouth filled with centimetre-wide sores – Matt found himself defaulting to that wry, understated three-word response. After four years of repetition and rattling around his head, those words are reclaimed as the title to Dinosaur Pile-Up’s defiant fifth album: 12 songs to draw a line under a half-decade of sickness and struggle, a distillation of his agonising uncertainty and self-analysis.
Ultimately, this album seeing the light of day is a huge part of Matt’s happily ever after. Having relocated with Karen to St Leonards on England’s south-east coast and transitioned from a reliance on steroids and biologics to an effective herbal alternative, Matt is more focused on work, home and life’s simple pleasures than he’s ever been. And all that has underlined why music matters.
“This feels like a ‘Fuck it, I’m here!’ kind of a record,” he signs-off. “It’s not about whether I might get to be rich and famous any more. It’s about being excited for people to get to hear my songs. I want to be free of the bullshit of how people perceive me – or us – and what it means to be a ‘cool band’. I’m proud that we’re still here as a band at all. I’m proud that I’m still here as a person. And I’m just so stoked that I’m still able to make music. That’s what I want to do. That’s why I’m here...”