Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark self-titled debut album with an epic world tour including a September 2025 show at The Button Factory, Dublin.

The 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will be commemorated with a limited-edition vinyl LP next year on the band’s own label via Secretly Distribution. The celebration gets underway with the release of the original 2004 version of the fan favourite, “Heavy Metal,” the newly remixed and mastered track was recently discovered among the original project files and captures what Clap Your Hands Say Yeah founder and frontman Alec Ounsworth calls “a special moment in time – a young group of guys all piling into one hotel room to wake up and go to a real studio (!) to try to come up with something special just for the fun of it.”  

“At the time, “Heavy Metal” was meant to appear alongside a small collection of songs to be used for an EP to be shopped around to labels,” Ounsworth says. “We never thought that an album was possible at the time.  Later, during the mixing of the EP, a decision was made to add other songs.  This final collection of songs went on to be the first album. 

“I guess I didn’t think this original version of ‘Heavy Metal’ sat very well on the album once we started recording some of the later songs so I decided the song should be changed even though the original had always worked.  Now that I listen to the original ‘Heavy Metal’ remixed and mastered, I realize it very well could have been on the album itself. 

“I really like both versions of ‘Heavy Metal’ but 20 years later I think I’ve come to appreciate this one a little more. The rest of the album has this excitement too of course but the earliest songs speak even more to a certain innocence around that time which I try hard not to forget.”

Clap your Hands Say Yeah at Button Factory for 16th September 2025. Tickets €27.00 are available from singularartists.ie on Friday, 22nd November at 10am