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BAND OF SKULLS ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES

March 20, 2016
Andy Cotterill.

Andy Cotterill

BAND OF SKULLS

Announce London Electric Ballroom headline show – May 19, 2016 and headline shows in Paris and Amsterdam

UK dates include The Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City and Cardiff City Stadium plus warm up shows in Guildford and Stoke

Forthcoming album By Default – May 27, 2016 / New single ‘Killer’ (Annie Mac)

Band Of Skulls has announced intimate album preview shows at London Electric Ballroom on May 19Paris Le Trabendo (May 24) and Amsterdam Paradiso (May 25), alongside warm-up shows at Guildford Boiler Room (April 28), Stoke Sugarmill (April 29). Tickets for these shows go on general sale at 10am, Friday March 19 and will be available here: https://bos.lnk.to/Live

 The dates are the latest to be added to a run of shows, which includes festival slots at the likes of The Great Escape, Live At Leeds and Liverpool Soundcity. The shows – for which the band will be joined by touring member, Portico Quartet’s Milo Fitzpatrick – will be the first airing of new material from their recently announced new album, By Default, their first to be released through BMG Recordings on May 27. Lead single ‘Killer’ was premiered on Radio 1 by Annie Mac and is streaming now and available as an instant grat upon album pre-order with iTunes. Listen to ‘Killer’ here: http://smarturl.it/KillerYT

 Produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith) and recorded in Rockfield Studios, By Default is the sound of a group on the sharpest form of their career, more engaged and focused than they’ve ever been. The follow up to 2014’s Himalayan, from the English trio –made up of Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals), Emma Richardson (bass, vocals) and Matt Hayward (drums) – the new record came about via a conscious decision from the band to take a step back from their relentless world-wide touring schedule, having never spent more than a month off the road in the last 2 years.

 “It’s definitely a new era,” says Russell Marsden. “The first three records were like a trilogy, a piece of work in of themselves. We wanted to do those things, and we did them all. We took a breath, took a look at what we’d done, and started from scratch again.”.

Upcoming shows:  

Apr 28                    Guildford               Boiler Room  

Apr 29                    Stoke                      Sugarmill                                        

Apr 30                    Leeds                     Live At Leeds

May 1                     Glasgow                 Stag & Dagger

May 19                   London                  Electric Ballroom

May 20                   Brighton                 The Great Escape (headlining Concorde 2)

May 24                   Paris                       Le Trabendo

May 25                   Amsterdam           Paradiso

May 28                   Liverpool                               Soundcity

June 4                    Cardiff                    Cardiff City Stadium (w/ Stereophonics & Vaccines)

July 14                    Dour, Belgium       Dour Festival

July 16                    Wiesen, Austria    Out Of The Woods Festival

July 22                    Huntingdon           Secret Garden Party Festival

July 31                    Kendal                    Kendal Calling Festival

Aug 5                      Tunbridge Wells   Forgotten Fields Festival

iTunes pre-order: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultIT

CD pre-order: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultCD

Vinyl pre-order: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultLP

Stream ‘Killer’ on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/KillerSpotify

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