The trio have a packed touring schedule that includes a sold out night at London Electric Ballroom (May 19) and other intimate warm up shows across the UK and Europe and festival slots at the likes of Glastonbury, Benicassim and the Great Escape. The band will then play a full album tour this autumn with UK dates already announced culminating with a night at Camden Roundhouse on October 26. A full list of current tour dates is below.
By Default, their fourth album, was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith) and recorded in Rockfield Studios. It 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. The upcoming live 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 By Default.
“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.”
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Upcoming shows:
Apr 28 Guildford Boiler Room (SOLD OUT)
Apr 29 Stoke Sugarmill (SOLD OUT)
Apr 30 Leeds Live At Leeds
May 1 Glasgow Stag & Dagger
May 19 London Electric Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
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)
June 22- 26 Glastonbury Glastonbury Festival
July 14 Dour, Belgium Dour Festival
July 15 Benicassim, Spain Benicassim Festival
July 16 Wiesen, Austria Out Of The Woods Festival
July 22 Huntingdon Secret Garden Party Festival
July 29 Cornwall Leopallooza Festival
July 30 Derbyshire Y Not Festival
July 31 Kendal Kendal Calling Festival
Aug 5 Tunbridge Wells Forgotten Fields Festival
Oct 20 Leeds Stylus
Oct 21 Manchester Albert Hall
Oct 22 Newcastle Northumbria Uni
Oct 24 Bristol SWX
Oct 25 Nottingham Rock City
Oct 26 London Roundhouse
Nov 17 Southampton Engine Rooms
Tickets available via https://bos.lnk.to/BoSTickets
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