British Sea Power single and live dates

British Sea Power release new single Please Stand Up on 23 May. Taken from the Top 15 album Open Season, the track is an irreducibly melodic meditation on melting streets, motorways and occultation of the sun.

Please Stand Up will be available on CD, enhanced CD and seven-inch vinyl. All formats will feature new unreleased B-sides, each sung by human voice. The enhanced CD will also feature the sumptuous Please Stand Up video, directed by Nick Wickham. Variously, the video evokes the dawn breaking, the night falling and selfless young men sequestered on a Norwegian hillside, ready to swoop down and rid the world of every last malignancy.

“Please Stand Up is maybe our take on classical rock, “ says BSP frontman Yan. “It's got all these lovely guitar lines, but it's kind of based on Pachelbel's Canon In D Major. That's the classical piece that‘s been used on loads of great pop songs - by everyone from Kylie to the KLF. It's difficult to go too far wrong with Pachelbel's Canon, so fingers crossed for Top Of The Pops and Last Night At The Proms.”

The release of Please Stand Up will be accompanied by three British BSP shows.

Dates are:

Tues 24 May Newcastle University.
Venue: 0191 239 3926
Tickets: 0191 2330444 / 0191 2612606 / 0191 2635000 / www.seetickets.com /
www.ticketline.co.uk

Weds 25 May London Scala.
Venue: 020 7833 2022
Tickets: 0870 1432210

Thurs 27 May London Electrowerkz
Tickets: Rough Trade Covent Garden (tel: 020 7240 0105) / The Lock Tavern,
Camden (tel 020 7482 7163) / www.ticketweb.co.uk

The Newcastle show is part of the Orange Evolution festival. The Scala show is part of the Bud Rising series of concerts and also features Ed Harcourt. The Electrowerkz show is a club night hosted by the Adventures In The Beetroot Fields gang. It will feature full live sets from BSP and Brakes, plus a DJ set from BSP. There will also be live performances and DJ sets from many further glee boyz.

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