Maximo Park single and tour dates

After scoring their first Top 20 Hit single in February with Apply Some Pressure, Maximo Park release a new single Graffiti, through Warp Records on May 2nd. The bands debut album A Certain Trigger, is released two weeks later on May 16th and contains all the bands singles including their debut limited edition release The Coast Is Always Changing / The Night I Lost My Head.

To support the release the band have announced an eleven date UK tour, five dates on the NME New Music Tour and a show in Sunderland as part of Radio One's Big Weekend:

April
Mon 25th Newcastle Stage 2 (SOLD OUT)
Wed 27th Preston 53 Degrees
Thu 28th Colchester Essex University
Fri 29th Stoke Sugarmill
Sat 30th Oxford Zodiac

May
Sun 1st Manchester Jabezz Clegg
Mon 2nd Glasgow King Tuts
Wed 4th Leeds Cockpit
Thu 5th Birmingham Academy 2
Fri 6th London ULU (SOLD OUT)
Sat 7th London ULU
Sun 8th Sunderland Herrington Country Park (Radio 1 Big weekend)

The NME New Music tour:
Wed 18th Norwich Waterfront (with The Cribs & The Checks)
Thu 19th Portsmouth Wedgewood (with Nine Black Alps & The Checks)
Fri 20th Gloucester Guildhall (with Nine Black Alps & The Checks)
Sat 21st Hull Silhouettes (with The Cribs & Towers Of London)
Mon 23rd Northampton Roadmenders (with Nine Black Alps & The Rakes)

There will also be six in-store performances across the country on the week of the single release.

May
Sun 1st Manchester Piccadilly (1:00pm)
Mo 2nd Durham Concepts (12:00pm)
Tue 3rd Newcastle HMV (6:00pm)
Wed 4th Leeds HMV (5:00pm)
Thu 5th Birmingham HMV (5:00pm)
Fri 6th London Virgin (5:00pm)

Maximo Park have also been confirmed to play on The New Band Stage at Glastonbury on Friday 24th June. The band have just returned from their first American and Japanese tours, where they played with Bloc Party and the Kaiser Chiefs, they go back to Japan in July, where on their last visit they caused scenes close to that of Beatlmania, to play the main stage at the Fuji Rock Festival.

Maximo Park are: Paul Smith (Vocals), Duncan Lloyd (guitars), Lukas Wooller
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