For no real reason other than the fun of it, Enter Shikari are filling some gaps in their already hectic schedule with a handful of more ‘intimate’ dates.

Within three days of returning from the gruelling Warped Tour in the USA, the band headline the small (but perfectly formed) Redfest festival in Redhill, Surrey as a warm-up for their slot on The Prodigy’s massive Milton Keynes Bowl show the following day. They then ‘warm down’ from that performance with a London show at the tiny (in comparison to the Hammersmith Apollo, which was scene of their last London headline show back in February) Camden Underworld.

The Camden show will be filmed / recorded (in some form or another) for a release (of some form or another) later in the year.

The band are currently chewing over ideas to make this show a little different to the usual. All will be revealed nearer the time.

In August, Enter Shikari find themselves in Preston and Bath for a pair of shows. The Preston show acts as a *sort of* make-up show for the cancelled Blackpool show back in Feb, and the Bath show for no other reason than that’s where the band’s booking agent lives so we can all go and make a mess of his house afterwards.

Tickets for London, Bath & Preston are on sale this coming Monday (14th June).

London tickets are ONLY available via www.entershikari.com.

Preston & Bath tickets are on general sale through all the usual suspects (AND www.entershikari.com of course).

Support for Preston & Bath will be the marvellous The King Blues.

The band enter the studio for a couple of days next week to record a brand new track that may (or may not) be released sometime during summer too.  But that’s another story…

Enter Shikari’s complete UK live commitments, as they stand so far, now look like this -

JULY

FRIDAY 23 – REDFEST (headline) – Redhill, Surrey

SATURDAY 24 – MILTON KEYNES – Bowl (with The Prodigy, Pendulum etc)

MONDAY 26 – LONDON – Camden Underworld

AUGUST

WEDNESDAY 18 – PRESTON – 53 Degrees (+ The King Blues)

THURSDAY 19 -  BATH – Pavillion (+ The King Blues)

FRIDAY 27 – LEEDS FESTIVAL (NME/Radio One Stage) – Leeds

SATURDAY 28 – READING FESTIVAL  (NME/Radio One Stage) – Reading

ticket links for all shows (with exception of Reading / Leeds, which is all sold out) can be sound at www.entershikari.com/gigs

It would be an understatement to say that 2010 has already been a landmark year for Twin Atlantic. From  a triumphant hometown show selling out the 1250-capacity Glasgow ABC, to a European stint with Enter Shikari and culminating an epic US tour, Twin Atlantic have already hit 17 countries this year and are becoming a truly world-beating band.

The evolution only continues, however, with the announcement that they have been personally invited to support Gaslight Anthem on their UK tour in June, in what will be Twin Atlantic’s biggest shows yet. The tour includes stops at Glasgow Academy on 23 June and London’s Brixton Academy on 29 June.

To celebrate these huge shows, an exclusive Innerpartysystem remix of the ‘Vivarium’ mini-album track live favourite ‘Human After All’ plus a brand new video will be available to download from 21 June.

Sam McTrusty (vocals, guitar) said, “Human After All is definitely the darkest track on ‘Vivarium’, and the video links in with the lyrical content – it was great to work with Hannah Lux Davis [director of the What is Light? Where is Laughter? video] again. This last year has been an amazing time for our band, but this is just the beginning – the best is yet to come.”

Twin Atlantic will also be appearing at a string of festivals across Europe this summer, including the main stage of Rockness on 13 June, the main stage of the 2000 Trees festival on 17 July, and headlining the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage of the Hevy Festival on 7 August.

The band also filmed a documentary for Scuzz TV in New York on their first US tour with Fall of Troy and Envy on the Coast. The hour-long show includes live footage of their show in Irving Plaza, and will first be broadcast on Scuzz TV in June.

Twin Atlantic live this summer:

13 June ROCKNESS FESTIVAL Inverness

22 June BIRMINGHAM Academy (with Gaslight Anthem)
23 June GLASGOW Academy (with Gaslight Anthem)
24 June MANCHESTER Academy (with Gaslight Anthem)
26 June LONDON Brixton Academy
29 June OXFORD Academy (with Gaslight Anthem)

1 July AMSTERDAM Melkweg (with Gaslight Anthem)
15 July SLOTTSFJELL FESTIVAL Tonsberg, Norway
17 July 2000 TREES FESTIVAL Cheltenham
23 July REDFEST Redhill, Surrey

6 August BELLADRUM FESTIVAL Inverness
7 August HEVY FESTIVAL Kent
20 August PUKKELPOP FESIVAL Hasselt-Kiewit, Belgium

Enter Shikari have invited St. Louis, Missouri post-hardcore quintet Story Of The Year along as main support on the band’s January 2010 European headline tour, and as openers on the UK dates in February 2010 (which feature The King Blues as main support). What’s more, Story Of The Year have accepted this invitation. Everyone is very pleased.

The tour starts in Denmark on the 8th Jan, and ends on the 12th Feb with a show at London’s 5,000 capacity Hammersmith Apollo. Unfortunately, due to commitments back in the USA, Story Of The Year will be unable to appear at the Hammersmith show. When we know what will happen instead, we will make an announcement of the London line-up.

There will be an Enter Shikari release to coincide with the UK dates. Details are still sketchy, but the release will definitely feature two brand new tracks recorded in November 2009 with ‘Common Dreads‘ producer Andy Gray on the Isle Of Wight prior to the band starting their current European tour as support on The Prodigy’s arena tour of Europe.

In a display of generosity, Enter Shikari offers to the world a free download of the previously unreleased ‘radio mix’ of album track ‘Wall‘. Originally remixed by ‘Common Dreads‘ producer Andy Gray specifically for radio promo use, the track was deemed too different and of interest to fans to remain locked away, but too similar to the original to have the cheek to charge cold hard cash for. So, instead, it’s being offered out as a free download for anyone that wants to take it. The track can be found here: www.musicglue.com/entershikari

Enter Shikari are proud as all hell to be able to announce the fantastic The King Blues as special guests for their UK tour in February 2010. The tour includes a date at Blackpool’s majestic Empress Ballroom and the band’s largest headline show of their career, London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

The full dates look like:

Saturday 6th Feb – BLACKPOOL – Empress Ballroom

Sunday 7th Feb – GLASGOW – Barrowlands

Tuesday 9th Feb – MIDDLESBROUGH – Empire

Thursday 11th Feb – BOURNEMOUTH – Academy

Friday 12th Feb – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo

All shows are 14+, any other act[s] are still TBC. You can grab tickets from www.crowdsurge.com/entershikari and a host of other ticket outlets.

Following their European Arena tour supporting The Prodigy – due to start next week (12th Nov in Finland) – Enter Shikari are honoured to find themselves invited to join The Prodigy again next year, this time for their biggest ever headline show.

The event takes place at Milton Keynes Bowl on July 24th 2010, and features a very impressive line-up that goes like this:

The Prodigy

Pendulum

Enter Shikari

Chase & Status

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Tickets are available from www.gigsandtours.com and all other reputable online agents.

Despite only just completing the first week of their largely sold out October UK jaunt (including a Camden Roundhouse this weekend having its roof well and truly blown off by the collective mayhem of a band and 3,000 revelers very much having the time of their lives), Enter Shikari have confirmed a short run of UK touring for early 2010, including shows at Blackpool’s prestigious Empress Ballroom and London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

Some form of release (details sketchy thus far) will accompany the dates.

Tickets for Blackpool and Hammersmith are on sale already, tickets for the remaining shows become available from Wednesday 14th October. All tickets are available from www.crowdsurge.com/entershikari

On the subject of the current October dates, footage filmed at the first night of the tour, in front of a packed out and highly frenzied Norwich UEA crowd, was taken away and edited as soon as the show ended. Exactly 48 hours later, a video for album track ‘Zzzonked‘ appeared. This can be viewed here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDse_2lEDA

On top of all this excitement and intense drama, drum’n'bass maestro High Contrast has put the finishing touches to his remix of ‘Common Dreads’ track ‘Wall‘.

The remaining tour dates are:

OCTOBER 2009:

MONDAY 12 – MANCHESTER – Academy SOLD OUT

TUESDAY 13 – BIRMINGHAM – Academy SOLD OUT

THURSDAY 15 – SHEFFIELD – Academy

FRIDAY 16 – DUNDEE – Fat Sams

SATURDAY 17 – GLASGOW – ABC SOLD OUT

SUNDAY 18 – ABERDEEN – Music Hall

TUESDAY 20 – NEWCASTLE – Academy

WEDNESDAY 21 – NOTTINGHAM – Rock City SOLD OUT

THURSDAY 22 – LIVERPOOL – Academy

FEBRUARY 2010 -

SATURDAY 6 – BLACKPOOL – Empress Ballroom

SUNDAY 7 – GLASGOW – Barrowlands

TUESDAY 9 – MIDDLEBROUGH – Empire

THURSDAY 11 – BOURNEMOUTH – O2 Academy

FRIDAY 12 – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo

With more than half of the venues on the upcoming October UK tour now totally sold out, and the rest of the shows down to their last handful of tickets, Enter Shikari are announcing their largest UK shows to date to follow their European headline run in January. Those dates are:

SATURDAY 6^th FEB – BLACKPOOL – Empress Ballroom

FRIDAY 12^th FEB – LONDON – Hammersmith Apollo

In support of the UK tour the band will be releasing a remix of ‘Wall’ from Drum n Bass kingpin High Contrast at the end of October.

These shows will be the culmination of a whirlwind eight months which will have found the the band:

• Releasing their second album, Common Dreads.

·         Blowing the roof off of the Reading Festival main stage (and – probably – breaking the world

crowd-surfing record in the process), and many main stages around continental Europe – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjChDPHWIfU

·         Having two singles A-listed by ‘the nation’s favourite’ BBC Radio One.

• Embarking out a 17 date UK headline tour (largely sold out at time of typing this and no doubt moreso by

the time you read it).

·         Touring the USA twice.

·         Touring the arenas of mainland Europe as special guests of The Prodigy.

·         Being nominated for two Kerrang! awards (not winning them, but when you’re up against

the likes of SlipKnot and Metallica, it’s the taking part that counts. That’s what we tell ourselves this end anyway).

·         Experiencing not one, but TWO earthquakes in Japan.

Following these shows, Enter Shikari will be off to Australia for the Soundwave festival, followed by a short tour of Japan, and then it’s back to the USA for God knows how long.

For more information please contact James Sherry [print] on james@divisionpromotions.com or Sam Hesketh [online] on sam@divisionpromotions.com or 0208 962 8282

Record Label: Ambush Reality

Download Album: Common Dreads

Our Rating:

Did we ever expect such a mutant of a second record by St Albans myriad metal-heads? Of course we did, these unconventional scamps, know no different. You only have to exposure your ears to opening track ’Solidarity’ and immediately it’s apparent the abrasive genre-bending intent of the quartet. Scurrying along through screamo, trance, fluorescent rave beats, nihilistic metal and nu-rave- Enter Shikari’s schizophrenic attempt sees Rou Reynolds sounding all too often like Mike Skinner when he’s not tearing his larynx to its limits with incessant screams. And like most, with their feet under the table, Enter Shikari have started to throw their caps into fighting against the derisory politics of this world. None more vocal in sonic single ‘Juggernaut’ Reynolds screams “Thou shall not pass” a sarcastic yell towards the city bank elite. And from that dance laden spree, Reynolds and co pound into the drum and bass, part Slipknot, part The Streets rollercoaster bulge of ‘The Jester’. “Everything we stand for is rather unstable, right now” Reynolds jokes in but in reality this is where Enter Shikari are right now as rudderless at our government. In it’s entirety it represents a spew of sounds that may well have been better if kept in that blurted out in a sea of shit. Confusing, muddled and completely disappointing.