Frankie & The Heartstrings to support Kaiser Chiefs on their comeback

Sunderland's Frankie & The Heartstrings are to support Leeds pop kings Kaiser Chiefs on their comeback shows in Falmouth, as they continue their string of UK shows leading up to their own raft of festival dates.

The shows, on June 7th and 8th see F&TH follow up a show with label mates The Cribs tonight at Coventry's Kasbah. The band have also confirmed to play at Ireland's premier festival Oxygen in July. Further festival dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

F&TH have also revealed details for a London headline show on 23rd September at ULU where they will be supported by fellow North Easteners Little Comets, plus their return to Reading & Leeds festivals in August following their heartily received sets on the NME/Radio 1 stages last year.

Last week Frankie & the Heartstrings released single That Postcard, taken from F&TH' Top 40 debut album Hunger which 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:
20th May Coventry, Kasbah with The Cribs http://www.seetickets.com/Event/THE-CRIBS/Kasbah/555072

JUNE:
07 - Princess Pavilions, Falmouth ' with Kaiser Chiefs !NEW!
08 - Princess Pavilions, Falmouth ' with Kaiser Chiefs !NEW!
18 - Beach Break Live, South Wales

JULY:
02 - Hop Farm Festival, Kent
09 - Oxygen Festival, Ireland !NEW!
15 - Positivus Festival, Salacgriva, Latvia
16 - Hultsfred Festival, Sweden
20 - Boomtown Festival, Ghent, Belgium
23 - Deer Shed Festival, North Yorkshire
30 - Lulworth Castle, Camp Bestival

AUGUST:
05 - Underage Festival, London
12 - Beacons Festival, Skipton
26 - Reading Festival, Berkshire
27 - Leeds Festival, Yorkshire

SEPTEMBER:
09-11 - Isle of Wight, Bestival
23 - London, ULU http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/FRANKIE-THE-HEARTSTRINGS

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