Lightspeed Champion UK dates

Lightspeed Champion has just announced details of his first UK shows since the release of his second album, Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You. Dev Hynes and his band will perform a ten date tour which starts in Leeds on May 1st and calls at Heaven in London on May 10th.

To coincide with the tour, the wonderful Madame Van Damme will be released as a single on May 10th.

Dev Hynes and some friends recently took time out to record a 'TV show trailer' . The trailer features a medley of Lightspeed Champion hits and popular b-side 69 Année Erotique, a cover of the Serge Gainsbourg classic (still from the trailer above).

Tickets for the tour are available from Tuesday 23rd February, ticket links to follow.

Full tour dates are:

1 May UK Leeds Live at Leeds at Stylus
3 May UK Nottingham Bodega
5 May UK Glasgow King Tuts
6 May UK Manchester Deaf Institute
7 May UK Newcastle Cluny
9 May UK Birmingham O2 Academy 3
10 May UK London Heaven
11 May UK Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
13 May UK Norwich Arts Centre
14 May UK Bristol Academy 2
15 May UK Cambridge Haymakers