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BAND NEWS: The Blinders instores, debut album out 21st September, Autumn Tour 2018

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THE BLINDERS have announced a run of intimate in-store appearances across the UK to coincide with the release of their eagerly awaited debut album: ‘Columbia’ this September.

Embarking on an intense six-day spree of record shops, the hotly tipped Doncaster trio now based in Manchester will perform live at the following venues and cities:

SEPTEMBER IN-STORE PERFORMANCES

21 – Manchester Fopp @ 4pm – TICKETS
22 – Preston Action Records – TICKETS
24 – Sheffield HMV – TICKETS
25 – Doncaster HMV – TICKETS
26 – Nottingham Rough Trade – TICKETS
27 – Leeds Jumbo Records – TICKETS

Please see individual events pages linked above for further details on each show.

Following their triumphant Reading & Leeds Festival appearances, the band now eye-up a headline set at the Tim Peaks stage at Festival No.6 on September 9th, and will undertake a 22-date UK headline tour throughout October and November.

The Blinders recently unveiled the video for current single ‘Brave New World’, a coruscating anthem about the distorting impact of hyper-capitalism, referencing everything from Trump’s Presidency to Aldous Huxley. ‘Brave New World’ is taken from The Blinders debut album ‘Columbia’, which will be released September 21st and is available to pre-order. The album also includes the singles ‘L’Etat C’Est Moi’, which was a Huw Stephens Tune Of The Week on Radio 1 and playlisted at 6Music, and ‘Gotta Get Through’, which spent five weeks at No.1 on Amazing Radio.

Loosely based around the concept of Columbia as “an alternate world informed by reality”, on the album The Blinders display a ferocious intelligence, as informed by history, literature and art as they are by Britain’s current political and economic woes. The striking cover of ‘Columbia’ pictures singer/guitarist Thomas Haywood in the tribal warpaint he wears for live shows, where he assumes the fearless persona of Johnny Dream. Produced by Gavin Monaghan (Editors, The Sherlocks, Goldblade), the album sees 21 year-old childhood friends Haywood (vocals, guitar), Charlie McGough (bass) and Matt Neale (drums) follow Johnny Dream on his spiritual awakening, from the coruscating swagger of the opening ‘Gotta Get Through’ to the raw, beautiful and ultimately redemptive finale ‘Orbit (Salmon Of Alaska)’.

The Blinders have been picking up specialist radio support since their first DIY releases from the likes of Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and Daniel P Carter, Radio X’s John Kennedy, and 6Music’s Chris Hawkins and Steve Lamacq, who recently had the band on his show for a BBC Music Introducing Session.

THE BLINDERS LIVE:

FESTIVAL SHOWS:

Sept 9 Festival No.6
Sept 29 Tenement Trail, Glasgow

HEADLINE TOUR:

OCTOBER 2018

Mon 15 Manchester Academy 2
Tues 16 Newcastle The Cluny
Thurs 18 Hull The Adelphi
Fri 19 Cardiff SWN Festival
Sat 20 Cardiff SWN Festival
Mon 22 Stoke-On-Trent The Sugarmill
Tues 23 Birmingham The Castle & Falcon
Weds 24 Nottingham Bodega
Thurs 25 Derby The Venue
Fri 26 Sheffield Plug
Sun 28 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Mon 29 Liverpool Buyers Club
Tues 30 Aberdeen, Drummonds

NOVEMBER

Thurs 1 Preston The Ferret
Fri 2 York The Crescent
Sat 3 Lincoln 2Q Festival
Mon 5 Oxford The Bullingdon
Tues 6 Cambridge The Portland Arms
Weds 7 London The Garage
Fri 9 Southampton Heartbreakers
Sat 10 Brighton The Haunt
Sun 11 Bristol Thekla

LIVE REVIEW: Todmorden Summer Orchestra, St Mary’s Church Todmorden, 1st September 2018

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This concert was given by a small string orchestra, with players from local orchestras, plus soloists Carisse White and Lily Morgan, with conductor Antony Brannick and leader Andrew Rostron. It opened, somewhat uncertainly, with Mozart’s “A little night music” (K525). Elgar’s “Serenade for String Orchestra”(op 20), an early piece but typically Elgar in its peaceful, spacious feel, followed.

J S Bach’s “Suite no 2 in B minor” (BWV 1067) featured Carisse White on the flute, which added spice to the strings of the orchestra. She shone in this often lively, intricate piece.
Local composer Tim Benjamin is on a roll. His beautiful “Summer’s End (Serenade for Tenor Horn and Strings)” had its world premiere after the break. The tenor horn, sensitively played by Lily Morgan, seemed to portray the warmth of summer, while the orchestra at times warned of winter to come.

The last piece, Grieg’s Holberg Suite, despite the composer’s own description of it as “in the old style” seems to this reviewer as fresh as paint and full of life and energy. The orchestra did it justice and a delighted audience got the Mozart as an encore.

The money raised goes towards fresh water and better sanitation for Nyabitocho, Tanzania, with which St Mary’s church is linked.

Will we hear this orchestra again? As the programme notes say, all traditions start with a one-off.

TOUR NEWS: HENGE dates October-December 2018

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HENGE 2018 – LIVE SIGHTINGS

Oct 31 – The Lost Arc, Rhayader
Nov 01 – Bierkeller, Exeter
Nov 02 – Old Market Assembly, Bristol
Nov 03 – Nos Da, Cardiff
Nov 08 – The Lexington, London
Nov 09 – Hope and Ruin, Brighton
Nov 15 – The Cluny, Newcastle
Nov 16 – The Warehouse, Penrith
Nov 17 – Yellow Arch, Sheffield
Nov 22 – HiFi Club, Leeds
Nov 23 – The Continental, Preston
Nov 24 – Kilmarnock Festival
Nov 25 – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
Nov 29 – The Bodega, Nottingham
Nov 30 – The Donkey, Leicester
Dec 1 – EBGBS, Liverpool
Dec 7 – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
Dec 8 – Gorilla , Manchester *** two shows – all ages matinee + evening show***

The band’s album ‘Attention Earth!’ is released 19th October.

‘Attention Earth!’ – Full Track Listing:

1. Mushroom One
2. Moon
3. Indigo Dust
4. In Praise of Water
5. Monolith
6. Machine Landscape
7. Demilitarise

TOUR NEWS: Lush Purr September 2018 dates

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Rising from the smouldering ashes of psychedelic indie punks The Yawns, Lush Purr owe their existence to Glasgow. Brothers Gavin (guitar/vocals) and Rikki Will (drums) came from a small fishing village near Aberdeen; Emma Smith (bass/vocals) grew up in Doune, near Stirling; and Andres Fazio (synths/guitar) moved to Glasgow from Santiago, Chile. All four chose the city to be their home, attracted by its famed music scene. Glasgow is the place where they met and Lush Purr was born.

Melancholy humour, dreamy lo-fi noise pop, meandering psychedelic fuzz are all signature elements of Lush Purr’s musical code. It’s unpredictable, fresh, melodic and at times very loud. And with song titles like ‘(I admit it) I’m a Gardener’ and ‘Jamiroquai at The Karaoke’ you’re left in no doubt about their strange, dark sense of humour.

Following the untimely demise of The Yawns, Gavin Will continued to make solo demos under the name Squirls. When former bandmates Rikki and Emma stepped in, they settled on the new name Lush Purr and started looking for a synth player. Pretty soon, Andres (formerly of Mirror Parties) responded to Gavin’s Facebook ad, making the current line up complete. Within a year, the band were releasing a debut on cassette via Fuzzkill/Electropapknit Records.

September 2018 dates

15th Leith Depot Edinburgh
16th The Eagle Inn Manchester
17th The Crofters Rights Bristol w/Terry(Upset The Rythm)
18th Cavern Exeter
19th The Library Oxford
20th The Birds Nest London
21st The Moon Cardiff
22nd Delicious Clam Sheffield
25th The Hug and Pint Glasgow

TOUR & ALBUM NEWS: The Vryll Society October 2018 dates, album ‘Course Of The Satellite’ out now

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Following the release of their debut album, “Course Of The Satellite” THE VRYLL SOCIETY have announced a string of live dates for October.

UK Tour Dates

October

10th – Heartbreakers, Southampton
11th – The Lexington, London
12th – Actress and Bishop, Birmingham
16th – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
17th – King Tuts, Glasgow
18th – The Brudenell, Leeds
19th – o2 Academy 2, Liverpool

Tickets on sale now – available here.

One thing The Vryll Society aren’t short of is admirers, Lauded at just about every turn by press and public alike, the release of their debut LP for Deltasonic Records was hotly anticipated thanks to the promise this band have shown through their live sets and recent single releases.

Discovered and nurtured by the late and much missed Deltasonic founder Alan Wills, they fitted the type for him perfectly. He instantly saw in them similar attributes he’d previously found in the early days of The Coral and The Zutons. The confident swagger, the solid union formed by their band-of-brothers gang mentality, their willingness to stand outside the conventional and often stifling jangly Liverpool scene, and the work ethic. Always the work ethic.

Wills instilled in The Vryll Society something which has become over the ensuing years a key element of what they are, what they’ve become, and of the music they produce. He gave them belief. A belief that hard work and determination will bring them to the place they wanted to reach.

“Alan taught us that all you need to conquer the world is a rehearsal room, your instruments, a good work ethic and a positive attitude and you’ll get there. He kind of taught us the rules and the attributes that you need to have to be successful so we’ve just continued on that path” says frontman Mike Ellis.

Ellis has stated that it was that attitude and that work ethic which got them through the subsequent tragic loss of their friend and manager in 2014, driving them forward through those times, propelling them to harder work, and bonding them even closer together as a unit.

That unit have spent the intervening time creating and honing their own brand new-psych sound, and building up a fanbase with their superlative live shows. Drawing from an eclectic palette of influence from deep funk to Krautrock, electronica and prog, they’ve created a heady, intoxicating, pin sharp, and tightly wound mellifluous groove, washed over with cyclical motifs, acres of effects laden guitar hooks, and shimmering, textural technicolour soundscapes. It is at once blissful, dizzying and madly infectious. It’s that eclecticism, that kaleidoscopic swirl of influences which brings together hip hop flavours, with the prog stylings of names such as Aphrodite’s Child and The Verve – pre Urban Hymns – when the drugs were still working. The dynamic leaps and folds through all these influences is where you find The Vryll Society’s own brand perfect pop. Its all there in the loops, in the hooks, the drive and the vibe of this unique band. But this isn’t frippery, these aren’t throwaway cheap thrills for our disposable times. No, this is heavier. This is music too feed your head.

Live too, The Vryll Society are a formidable force. That gang mentality binds them together over the ideas formed by spending long hours together in the rehearsal every day. Hotwiring these ideas into the heads of the crowd through extended psych jams and deep solid grooves gives a different show every time, and with each and every set, the offer gets better. Recent travels have seen them take SXSW 2017 by storm as guests of BBC Introducing as well as major festivals such as Glastonbury and Leeds/Reading.

The songs that fill the delicious grooves of Course Of The Satellite weren’t so much written as devised or developed, brought together organically over months in the band’s underground lair, or over weeks in Liverpool’s Parr Street Studios. Working closely with producers, Wills’ right hand man and Deltasonic brother-in-arms Joe Fearon and Tom Longworth, the album took shape organically, biding its time and finding its way. The result is a work of impressive confidence and stature. It’s a record that believes in itself, and for all the right reasons. This is an effortlessly cool album, the sort of record that makes friends easily. The world is ready, willing and more than able to take The Vryll Society even deeper to their heart. The path Alan Wills showed them awaits. It’s a path that leads to greatness.

THE VRYLL SOCIETY – DEBUT ALBUM “COURSE OF THE SATELLITE”
OUT NOW VIA DELTASONIC RECORDS

Order Here: http://www.deltasonicrecords.co.uk

TOUR & ALBUM NEWS: Karine Polwart Autumn 2018 dates, ‘Laws Of Motion’ out 19th October

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Multi-award winning songwriter and musician, theatre maker and published writer KARINE POLWART – six-time winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including 2018 Folk Singer of The Year – will release a new album, Laws of Motion, on October 19, 2018 via Hudson Records.

Polwart’s seventh release, Laws of Motion is the follow-up to 2017’s much-praised A Pocket of Wind Resistance, which earned Karine & co-writer Pippa Murphy a New Music Scotland Award for its innovative blend of folk music, spoken word & sound design, alongside a nomination for the Radio 2 Folk Album of The Year. The new album – recorded alongside long-term collaborators Inge Thomson (accordion) and brother Steven Polwart (guitars) – will arrive amidst a 13 date UK tour, including London’s Cadogan Hall on October 17, 2018.

A Pocket Of Wind Resistance used the migratory habits of geese to crack open universally human societal & ecological issues. Here, across Laws of Motion, Polwart coalesces the familial and the familiar effortlessly alongside the foreign, the frightening and the unknown, driven as ever by her gift for empathy and accessibility. Subject matter as disparate as Trump, WW2 & holocaust survivors are drawn together by the laws of the album’s title alongside the experiences of Japanese migrants and allegorical folk & children’s stories. Speaking about the album’s broad focus, Polwart says; “I didn’t set out to write songs on a unified theme – they’ve just landed that way. Perhaps that’s no surprise, given the times we’re in.”

Laws of Motion features amongst its track-listing a clutch songs which Polwart originally wrote with her friend (and Midlothian neighbour) Martin Green, of visionary folk trio Lau. Affecting ‘Suitcase’ and the smouldering, stirring album title track (which Polwart dedicates here to the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration Through Language & The Arts) were both recorded in different iterations (with vocals contributed by Becky Unthank and Aidan Moffatt) for Green’s 2016 multi-media project on social migration, ‘Flit’. The quietly urgent ‘Suitcase’ was written by Polwart as testament to all who used – and sustained – the Kindertransport, the underground network which smuggled mostly Jewish children out of Nazi Europe in the run up to WW2. Noting the track’s relevance to our present as well as the past, Polwart adds; “It’s also dedicated to all those who flee still, because they have to.”

Karine is at the height of her story-telling powers at the album’s vivid centre-piece, ‘Matsuo’s Welcome To Muckhart’, which articulates the stranger-than-fiction tale of the famous Japanese garden which has endured at the Clackmannashire home of global traveller & writer Isabella Christie since 1907. The garden was tended by a Japanese man called Shinzaburo Matsuo, who sailed 5,000 miles to Christie’s remote Scottish home, having lost his own family in Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923. Written again in collaboration with Martin Green, Karine wrote the transportive track when the story was brought to her attention by staff & children at the local primary school, with whom she was working on a community project. It’s the kind of dignifying of loss, resilience and hidden history in which Polwart revels.

Laws of Motion nods towards the spoken word elements of Wind Resistance on the powerful ‘I Burn But I am Not Consumed’, and album-closer ‘Cassiopeia’. The former takes the clan motto of Donald Trump’s maternal Scottish family as its title, deflating the POTUS’s blustery posturing in the process. In an age with no shortage of artists taking aim at The White House’s incumbent, Polwart is presumably the first – and perhaps the only – to do so via the voice of the ancient rock beneath the Isle of Lewis, birthplace of Trump’s mother, Mary Ann Macleod. It’s anything but twee – lamenting a wayward island son, “a broken boy”, Polwart skewers Trump’s narcissism with both precision and humour (“In the name of progress, profit and executive golf / He would pit himself against time & tide”), whilst retaining the vestiges of his humanity.

The album comes to a spine-tingling close with ‘Cassiopeia’, in which the unimaginable concept of nuclear warfare rubs uncomfortably against a young Karine’s fearful grasp of the wider world beyond her childhood perimeters – “When the siren sounds above the BP at Grangemouth / We’re gonna hide in the jam cupboard”. The track intersperses snippets from the Protect and Survive radio broadcasts issued by the Home Office during the Cold War with the fearful, unanswerable questions of a 9 year old – “How far is it from Leningrad to Bonnybridge?” – all delivered in the richly evocative speaking voice which gives Polwart’s music so much of its warmth.

Laws of Motion is the latest in an evolving series of collaborative projects across which Polwart has combined music & storytelling with politics & environmental-societal issues. Karine wrote A Pocket Of Wind Resistance (a Songlines & BBC Radio 3 Late Junction Album Of The Year as well as SAY Award short listed) as a musical companion to her critically acclaimed theatre debut Wind Resistance, now published via Faber & Faber and selected by Robert McFarlane as a Guardian Book of 2017. The production, which debuted at the Edinburgh International Festival with a residency at the Lyceum, was written, musically directed and performed by Polwart, winning her the Best Music and Sound Award at the 2017 CATS. Alongside three other nominations, it also placed Polwart on the shortlist for the Best Actor ‘Scottish Oscar’ in the Sunday Herald Culture Awards.

Over the last 3 years, Karine has also worked with indie composer RM Hubbert, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Greek Cypriot composer Alkinoos Ioannidis. She also co-directed the acclaimed Pilgrimer, novelist James Robertson’s ode to Joni Mitchell.

UK Tour Dates

17/10/18 – Cadogan Hall, LONDON
18/10/18 – Wedgewood Rooms, PORTSMOUTH
19/10/18 – The Arts Centre,PONTARDAWE
20/09/18 – RNCM, MANCHESTER
21/10/18 – The Phoenix, EXETER
22/10/18 – Komedia, BRIGHTON
23/10/18 – Junction, CAMBRIDGE
24/10/18 – City Varieties, LEEDS
31/10/18 – Walker Theatre, SHREWSBURY
01/11/18 – St Georges, BRISTOL
02/11/18 – Town Hall, BIRMINGHAM
03/11/18 – Brewery Arts Centre, KENDAL
04/11/18 – The Sage, GATESHEAD

TOUR NEWS: Camel begin their UK tour next week!

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Following the recent announcement that legendary prog-rock band Camel will bring their acclaimed live show to London’s Royal Albert Hall in Sept 2018, the band are happy to reveal that this will be preceded by an extensive run of UK tour dates.

During what will be a very special run of shows – performed by Andrew Latimer (guitar, flute, vocals), Colin Bass (bass guitar, vocals), Denis Clement (drums), Peter Jones (keyboards, vocals) – the band will be playing the entirety of their 1976 album “Moonmadness” plus plenty of other classic tracks. Upon release “Moonmadness” left its mark on the UK Top 20 albums chart, going on to become certified silver. In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album was included in its list of the best “40 Cosmic Rock Albums” and voted no. 58 in the Top 100 Prog Albums of All Time by readers of ‘Prog’ magazine in 2014.

The full run of UK dates is as follows.

Fri 07 Sep 2018 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sat 08 Sep 2018 Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle
Sun 09 Sep 2018 The Assembly, Leamington
Mon 10 Sep 2018 Friars Aylesbury at The Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
Wed 12 Sep 2018 O2 Guildhall, Southampton
Thu 13 Sep 2018 Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Fri 14 Sep 2018 Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham
Mon 17 Sep 2018 Royal Albert Hall, London

SINGLE, ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: SHE MAKES WAR single ‘Devastate Me’, album ‘Brace For Impact’ out 28th September, dates October/November 2018

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Bristol based multi-instrumentalist producer and visual artist SHE MAKES WAR has released her new single ‘Devastate Me’, taken from her upcoming album Brace For Impact. Pre order the album here.

A blend of raucous guitar and infectious vocals, ‘Devastate Me’ is an unrestrained commentary on the impact of our collective online presence on our lives, from stalker exes to the hysterical screeching of Twitter.

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She Makes War mastermind Laura Kidd comments “It’s about photography as a reflex, the way people overshare online and how when we die our online profiles just stay there. The internet is amazing – I’ve built my career using it, but it can be so awful.”

Simultaneously scintillating and scathing, the track is an infectious dose of punk-infused pop with a conscious message. The track is taken from her upcoming album, Brace For Impact, the follow up to 2016’s acclaimed Direction Of Travel.

On her new record, up steps a femme fatale who slays with words of passion over ruthless action. Embarking upon a voyage of self-discovery, her songs stay close to hand-crafted journals packed with stickers and photographs, sparks of lyrical imagination and inspirational notes, simultaneously slaying with killer riffs.

“After finding myself in a happy relationship after a long period of sadness, this record enabled me to ruminate and find ways of creating beauty where there was once pain.” Kidd says. “I’m the strongest I’ve ever been because of all I’ve been through.”

The album naming decision was as dramatic as the music itself, coming after she broke her foot moments before supporting The Brian Jonestown Massacre. With barely enough time to visit A&E, a face full of glitter and steely resolve, she performed a slew of summer festival sets and a BBC 6Music Marc Riley session sporting a fetching knee crutch.

“Having my mobility stolen from me was exhausting and depressing. I’d come up with the album title while driving on tour, daydreaming about what it must be like to be in a high-speed car crash”, she recalls. “After struggling through the summer with that phrase in my mind, then finding it written in the venue toilets at the end of a tour in Brighton, it just had to be the album title. It couldn’t have been more apt.”

She Makes War has built a strong following, having played over 600 shows in the UK and Europe and receiving extensive online acclaim plus support from BBC 6 Music. Her last album Direction Of Travel earned plays from Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson, Chris Hawkins, Lauren Laverne and Gideon Coe, as well as John Kennedy at Radio X and Alex Baker at Kerrang.

A fiercely devoted, independent DIY force, She Makes War has crafted her success from a close relationship with fans, placing importance on her music’s physical form and an emphasis on the live experience.

Equally at home playing heartbreaking pin-drop solo sets and fronting her explosive five piece band, she brings the experience back to its core by constantly finding new ways of communicating songs to people, striving to make art a part of the fabric of everyday life.

She Makes War will be heading out on a headline tour this October. Tickets available via shemakeswar.com. Full dates can be found below.

SHE MAKES WAR UK TOUR DATES

18/10 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
19/10 – Glasgow, Hug & Pint
20/10 – Manchester, Castle Hotel
23/10 – Leicester, Firebug
24/10 – Norwich, Epic Studios
26/10 – Sebright Arms, London
27/10 – Brighton, Hope & Ruin
31/10 – Birmingham. Hare & Hounds
1/11 – Oxford, Jericho Tavern
2/11 – Southampton, Heartbreakers
3/11 – Bristol, Thekla

BAND NEWS: Black Honey announce in-stores, share brand new single ‘Midnight’, dates October 2018

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Black Honey have announced three in-store performances in Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester.

  • Manchester HMV on 23rd September, for a full live set and to sign copies of the album
  • Sheffield Bear Tree Records on 24th September, for a full live set and to sign copies of the album
  • Leeds Crash Records on 25th September, for an acoustic set and to sign copies of the album

Last month, Black Honey announced their highly anticipated debut album which has been 3 years in the making. Sitting right at the heart of their self-professed ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’ of an album is new single ‘Midnight’ – an unashamed disco-pop Trojan horse that could only have been created by Black Honey. Fully-loaded with their signature drama and a juggernaut top line.

UK festival dates:

04/08 – Bestival, Dorset
18/08 – RIZE Festival, Chelmsford
30/08-01/09 Electric Fields, Dumfries
31/08-02/09 Bingley Music Live, Bingley

October UK headline tour:

13/10 Thekla – Bristol
14/10 Concorde 2 – Brighton
15/10 Academy 2 – Birmingham
16/10 Norwich Arts Centre – Norwich
18/10 Church – Leeds
19/10 Riverside – Newcastle
20/10 Stereo – Glasgow
21/10 Academy 2 – Manchester
23/10 Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
24/10 Electric Ballroom – London

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Bring Me The Horizon ‘amo’ out 11th January 2019, tour November 2018

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Sheffield based, multi-platinum selling Bring Me The Horizon are set to release a new album entitled ‘amo’ via RCA/Sony on 11th January 2019. View listen/see debut track, Mantra.

To tie in with this announcement tickets for a world tour go on sale Friday, 31st August here. A run of special UK shows kick off in November and include a two-night stint at Alexandra Palace, they last played this London venue in 2014.

Bring Me The Horizon have been on a rocket of a journey over the last few years, selling over 2 Million albums globally to date, playing sell out shows in over 40 countries, including two sold out nights at London’s O2 plus wowing a traditionally non rock crowd at Glastonbury Festival in 2016.

Poised now to release their sixth studio album, the band have spent the summer writing and recording in Los Angeles, with Oli Sykes and Jordan FIsh handling production. What has transpired is one of their most exhilarating, genre crossing albums to date.

Oli adds “amo is a love album that explores every aspect of that most powerful emotion. It deals with the good the bad and the ugly, and as a result we’ve created an album that’s more experimental, more varied, weird, and wonderful than anything we’ve done before.”

Whilst amo will have some surprises, it very much sticks to the bands successful fan pleasing formula of massive stadium bouncing rocks songs with huge singalong choruses. A sound that has earnt them five A list Radio 1 records to date.

UK TOUR – NOVEMBER

23rd– Birmingham Arena, Birmingham
24th – First Direct Arena, Leeds
25th – SSE Hydro, Glasgow
27th – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff
29th – Alexandra Palace, London
30th – Alexandra Palace, London

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