BELLA1720 // 23 October 2026
The Wow! Scenario is the project from comedian, actor and musician James Acaster and his lifelong friend Graeme Wicks.
The project formed in 2004 in Kettering, Northamptonshire. The sessions for their debut album began in 2007.
Stand in the Star. A Verse and a Chorus, the debut album by The Wow! Scenario will now be released in 2026.
Graeme Wicks and James Acaster had already decided to call it a day when they recorded all of their songs in December 2007 with producer Chris Hamilton - one of the few people who actually liked their music. Indeed, the band name itself came from a drunk audiencenmember trying to tell them they didn’t have ‘the X factor’ but repeatedly getting the term wrong, “you don’t have the wow scenario, guys. You need to get the wow scenario.”