The Joy Formidable will be the headline act on this years NME Radar tour.  Taking place in September and October, support with come from Chapel Club. Having this weekend opened The Other Stage at Glastonbury, and supported Paul McCartney at the Millenium Stadium, the band will release details of their debut album soon.

Dates and ticket details are as follows

27-September Birmingham O2 Academy2

28-September Norwich Waterfront

30-September Nottingham Rescue Rooms

01-October Glasgow King Tuts

02- October Aberdeen Tunnels

04- October Manchester Academy 3

05- October Newcastle O2 Academy2

06- October Leeds Cockpit

07- October Stoke Sugarmill

08- October Cardiff Millennium Music Hall

10- October Oxford O2 Academy2

11- October Brighton Concorde 2

13- October Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

14- October London KOKO

‘Growing Pains’, the debut album from Leeds trio Dinosaur Pile-Up, will be released via Friends Vs Records this September.

Led by the single ‘Birds And Planes’, released on digital download and limited-edition 7” vinyl, available just prior to the album on July 26, ‘Growing Pains’ is the sound of a one of the UKs most exciting bands hitting their stride. It comes, following a handful of introductory independent releases over the past year and a bit, after which the band’s frontman and creative force Matt Bigland entered Bridlington’s Lodge Studios with producer James Kenosha to record the debut, taking place over January and February this year. The result is a storming rock powerhouse of big pop songs driven by the kind of wall shaking undercurrent only a three piece can muster.

Bigland says of the album: “I know it sounds bent but I liked the idea of people to be able to sing along to the songs, even if they were singing about being hated or upset. I wanted to make a record that kicks people in the face whilst getting stuck in their head.”

Their career to date was led by the January 2009 debut 7″ single ‘My Rock N Roll’, followed by a second single ‘Traynor’, and last year’s summer release, modestly titled ‘The Most Powerful EP In The Universe’ – which spawned songs such as ‘Summer Hit Single’, ‘Beach Bug’ and ‘Cat Attack’.

Their live plot to date has seen them tour with a rich cast of bands including a UK/European jaunt with the Pixies in December, and a French tour with Violens for the coveted Les Inrocks tour last Spring. On the festival circuit the band has shared stages with Them Crooked Vultures on the Radio One tent at last year’s Reading and Leeds festivals, and they headlined NME’s Halloween spectacular at Koko last October. Elsewhere they have performed alongside Future Of The Left, Pulled Apart By Horses and The Automatic, and last summer stormed the festival circuit performing at Bestival, Oxegen, T In The Park, and aforementioned Reading and Leeds festivals.

They will return to the live stage this September with a headline run ahead of the album’s release. ‘Growing Pains’ will be available digitally and on CD / Vinyl.

Dinosaur Pile-Up on tour:

Sep 13^th York Stereo

Sep 14^th Manchester Ruby Lounge

Sep 15^th Notts Bodega Social Club

Sep 16^th Bristol Cooler

Sep 17^th London KCLSU

Sep 19^th Exeter Timepiece

Sep 20^th Birmingham Hare & Hounds

Sep 21^nd Liverpool Masque

Sep 22^nd Edinburgh Electric Circus

Sep 23^rd Glasgow King Tuts

Sep 24^th Leeds Cockpit

Sep 27^th Stoke Sugarmill

Sep 28^th Brighton Coalition

Sep 29^th Cambridge Haymakers

Sep 30^th Sheffield Plug

Oct 1^st Crewe The Box

Record Label: Madfish/The Orchard

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Our Rating:

Cheery London boys The Holloways had some success back in 2006 and were even hotly tipped by the NME at one point. This, their second album, is chock full of bright, exuberant pop-rock, as the cheeky chappies ramble merrily through tropical melodies and dubious lyrics. Beneath the happy-go-lucky exterior though, something rotten lurks. Listen carefully to the ska-tinged anti-chav anthem ‘On The Bus’, and you’ll possibly hear the sound of the lyrical barrel being scrapped. Meanwhile, ‘Under A Cloud’, which deals with the clearly burning issue that is the overuse of computers, manages to sound almost offensively trite on the very first listening. The album as a whole smacks of jubilant jauntiness—you’d have a tough time not cracking a smile to breezy tracks like ‘Public Service Broadcast’—but unfortunately the melding of calypso and indie The Holloways churn out is as much irritating as it is exciting. While it’s not all bad—album closer ‘Knock Me Down’, a more reflective number which ushers in a slight change of pace (too late, lads) is ironically probably the best offering here—it’s an album that’s likely to initially amuse, but bore on repeated listens.