Overview
Sunderland's Frankie & The Heartstrings release their new single That Postcard this week on PopSex Ltd / Wichita Recordings as they hit the road for a string of UK shows.
The band are pleased to announce a headline show for London on 23rd September at ULU, plus their return to Reading & Leeds festivals in August following their heartily received sets on the NME/Radio 1 stages last year. Three more UK festivals have been added: Deer Shed in North Yorkshire, Underage in London and Beacons in Skipton, with more European festival dates confirmed for July. All dates listed below.
That Postcard is taken from F&TH' Top 40 debut album Hunger and features producer Edwyn Collins on backing vocals. The bands' admiration for Collins and his former band Orange Juice is no secret and That Postcard tips its hat to the great man with a fond reference to his Channel 4 sitcom of yore West Heath Yard while the b-side to this digital only single is a cover of Collins' Searching For The Truth from his recent album Losing Sleep.
Frankie & The Heartstrings' album and single artwork images are by photographer Keith Pattison, from the series/book NO REDEMPTION THE 1984–85 MINERS' STRIKE IN THE DURHAM COALFIELD Photographs Keith Pattison Words David Peace
Live dates:
May
10 - Hare and Houns, Birmingham
12 - The Cellar, Oxford
13 - Underground, Stoke
14 - Hector's House, Brighton (Great Escape)
15 - The Watershed, Wimbledon
16 - Central Station, Wrexham
18 - Beach Break Live, South Wales
19 - Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool
20 - Kasbah, Coventry (w/ THE CRIBS!)
July
02 - Hop Farm Festival, Kent
15 - Positivus Festival, Salacgnva Lativa
16 - Hultsfred Festival, Sweden
20 - Boomtown Festival, Ghent Belgium
23 - Deer Shed Festival, N. Yorkshire
30 - Camp Bestival, Lulworth Castle
August
05 - Underage Festival, London
12 - Beacons Festival, Skipton
26 - Reading Festival, Reading
27 - Leeds Festival, Leeds
September
9-11 - Bestival, Isle of Wight
23 - ULU, London (NEW)
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