British Sea Power live dates

Mercury Prize Nominees; British Sea Power have announced a brand new UK tour for February 2011 in conjunction with the release of their fourth album 'Valhalla Dancehall'.

BSP's fourth studio album, Valhalla Dancehall, was written and recorded on Skye and in a remote farmhouse, near Selmeston in East Sussex. The title hints at some wild internationalist daydream ' a mix of glowery Norse mythos and jam-happy Jamaican discos. The album has a glorious scope, moving from the windswept nine-minute meditation of Once More Now to the neat electronic pop of Living Is So Easy. Recordings were made during Britain's coldest winter for 30 years.

BSP's inventive live shows have become a latterday rock institution. BSP have been acknowledged by the great institutions: David Bowie, the National Maritime Museum, Jarvis Cocker, the British Horseracing Authority. They are a band who tour giant American stadiums with old pals The Killers, but a band who also make singles with ancient West Country hitmakers The Wurzels.

BSP are a band who play forests and giant rock halls as specially requested guests of The Flaming Lips, The Strokes and Pulp. But they're also a band who stage their album launch parties in remote Sussex pubs where their own special guests are The Copper Family, a clan of Sussex folk singers who've been going for 200 years. No other band did this. Most likely no other band could. To See British Sea Power live:

February 2011
Monday 7th Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 0292 023 2199*
Tuesday 8th Bristol Thekla 0870 444 4400*
Wednesday 9th Birmingham HMV Institute 0844 248 5037*
Thursday 10th Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Saturday 12th Leeds Met University
Sunday 13th Glasgow Arches
Monday 14th Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Tuesday 15th Manchester Ritz 0161 832 1111*
Thursday 17th Dublin Academy
Friday 18th Belfast Spring and Airbrake
Saturday 19th Liverpool Stanley Theatre
Sunday 20th Cambridge Junction
Monday 21st Norwich Waterfront 01603 508 050*
Wednesday 23rd Brighton Komedia
Friday 25th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Sunday 27th London HMV Forum 0844 847 2405*

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