SHARE NEW SINGLE, “THE FALL OF HOME“:
SICK SCENES, RELEASED 24TH FEBRUARY 2017
UK AND NORTH AMERICAN TOURS
Owen Richards
Los Campesinos! share new single, “The Fall of Home”, the final song to be taken from their sixth studio album Sick Scenes before its worldwide release via Wichita Recordings, on 24th February.
Gareth says of the song, “This is an elegy to the home towns left behind. It’s about the villages too stifling to ever allow you or itself to flourish. About those who left to protect their mental health or to be the best version of themselves. To those who moved to the city and return “home” for Christmas and funerals, feeling like a tourist. For the lonely people in rented house shares with no idea what they’re doing. And it’s for those who didn’t want to or couldn’t leave, and are still hanging in there.
The lyrics for this song were written at 4am on the 24th June, 2016.”
The tail-end of 2016 saw Los Campesinos! mark their return with a handful of sold out shows, further live action follows when the band undertake a whistle-stop tour of North America in February and March followed by a run of UK shows – the full itinerary is:
February
20th Seattle, WA The Neptune Theatre*
21st Vancouver, BC The Imperial (19+)*
22nd Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge (+21)*
24th San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall*
25th Los Angeles, CA The Teragram Ballroom *
27th Denver, CO The Bluebird Theater*
March
1st Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club (18+)*
2nd Chicago, IL Metro (18+)*
3rd Detroit, MI El Club*
4th Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop*
5th Toronto, ON Velvet Underground*
6th Pittsburgh, PA Rex Theatre*
8th Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts*
9th Washington, DC 9:30 Club*
10th Brooklyn, NY Warsaw*
11th Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club*
April
27th Liverpool Arts Centre (14+)
28th Glasgow Stereo (14+) (SOLD OUT)
29th Sheffield Queens Social Club (14+)
30th Newcastle The Cluny (14+)
May
1st London Koko (14+)
5th Brighton The Haunt (14+)
6th Norwich Arts Centre (14+)
7th Birmingham Hare & Hounds (14+)
All shows are all ages unless stated.
* w/ special guests Crying
Sick Scenes, the band’s sixth album arriving after a recording hiatus of some three years is testament to their longevity and canny perception – coming into view amidst a backdrop of personal and social malaise, prescribed medication, the disintegration of local communities, non-league football and the minutiae of every-day life.
Sick Scenes will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally through Wichita Recordings. The album is available for pre-order now in limited bundle format:
https://kontraband.store/loscampesinos/
Sick Scenes Tracklisting
1. Renato Dall’Ara (2008)
2. Sad Suppers
3. I Broke Up In Amarante
4. A Slow, Slow Death
5. The Fall Of Home
6. 5 Flucloxacillin
7. Here’s To The Fourth Time!
8. For Whom The Belly Tolls
9. Got Stendhal’s
10. A Litany/Heart Swells
11. Hung Empty
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