After an incredible 2008 including a debut album, two full headline tours and tours with Idlewild, Los Campesinos, Young Knives, Blood Red Shoes, The Subways, Forward Russia and the Futureheads, including appearances at SXSW, The Great Escape, Lounge on the Farm, Truck, Lovebox, Lattitude, Standon Calling, Hurricane & Southside (Germany), T in the Park, Summersonic (Japan), Reading and Leeds, CMJ (Fader Party NYC) Offset and Sugarhill festivals...
Johnny Foreigner start the onslaught all over again (as if they ever stopped).
2009 has already seen the band tour Europe, record their second album with producer extraordinaire Alex Newport (Death Cab, Rival Schools, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta) in NYC and a UK tour with Hundred Reasons. All this and it's only April…new Single 'Feels Like Summer' to be release in June.
The London show on 18th May will be an invite-only fan show at the soon-to-be-opened Flowerpot in Kentish Town. The drinking establishment/venue has been set up by the guys behind Nambucca/FROG, opening on the 1st May, and throughout the month they're putting on 30 free gigs!
See http://www.myspace.com/flowerpotlondon for more details.
More info on how to get invited coming very soon!
And support on the 'FEELS LIKE SUMMER' TOUR comes from the wonderful Calories, Tubelord, Copy Haho amongst others.
Dates are:
MAY
07 - Sheffield, Fuzz Club + Tubelord
08 - Derby, Rockhouse + Tubelord
09 - Hull, Club NME @ Welly + Tubelord
11 - Bristol, Cooler + Tubelord + Oxygen Thief
12 - Southampton, Joiners + Calories + Copy Haho
13 - Birmingham, Victoria + Calories + Copy Haho
14 - Kingston, New Slang + Supertennis + Youves
15 - Leicester, Sumo + Tubelord +Copy Haho
16 - Brighton, The Great Escape
17 - Manchester, The Deaf Institute + Calories + Copy Haho
18 - Flowerpot, Kentish Town, London
20 - Sound City @ Barfly, Liverpool w/ Hot Club De Paris + Tubelord + Calories
21 - York, Fibbers + Calories + Copy Haho
22 - Wakefield, Escobar + Copy Haho
23 - Newport, Meze Lounge + Calories + Copy Haho
24 - Northampton, Roadmenders 3 + Calories + Copy Haho