The Music announce new single

The Music have announced details of their new single, Drugs, which will be released through Yes Please / Polydor on October 13th 2008.

A dancefloor favourite and the third single from their top twenty album, their first in four years, Strength In Numbers, which was released in June and produced by Flood (Killers / U2) and Paul Hartnoll (ex Orbital)

The band have also announced some Scottish headline shows and a gig at London's legendary Roundhouse venue on October 29th to coincide with the single.

"It's brilliant to be playing such an historic venue as The Roundhouse," commented lead-singer Robert Harvey. "The list of bands that have played there is amazing, it's an honour to be joining them and I hope we can make our gig there just as memorable. It's going to be a special night."

These dates follow the bands recent sold-out UK headline shows and some startling performances at this year's T in the Park, Reading and Leeds festivals.

The full list of dates are as follows:

OCTOBER
22nd Inverness Iron Works
23rd Dunfermline Kinema
25th Dundee Fat Sams
26th Aberdeen Moshulu
27th Edinburgh Picture House
29th London The Roundhouse

Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9.30am on Friday 5th September and are priced at £13 (£15 in London) and available below.

Having already played prestigious shows earlier in the summer at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival and the Splendour In The grass festival in Australia the band head to Taiwan, Korea and back to Japan following the Roundhouse show in late October before returning to the UK to begin work on new material.

The Music are: Robert Harvey (vocal / guitar), Adam Nutter (guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) & Phil Jordan (drums).