XX Teens announce further dates

XX Teens have announced details of a number of live dates, including a support slot on the forthcoming Long Blondes tour. All shows on the Long Blondes tour are 14+. The band will also be playing a number of headline shows in May.

The full list of dates, including the Dot To Dot and Great Escape festivals are as follows:

APRIL
6th Cambridge The Junction (with The Long Blondes)
7th Liverpool Academy 2 (with The Long Blondes)
8th Manchester Academy 2 (with The Long Blondes)
9th Leeds Stylus (with The Long Blondes)
10th Sheffield Octagon (with The Long Blondes)
12th Glasgow QMU (with The Long Blondes)
13th Newcastle Academy (with The Long Blondes)
14th Nottingham Trent University (with The Long Blondes)
15th Birmingham Academy 2 (with The Long Blondes)
16th Northampton Roadmender (with The Long Blondes)
18th Oxford Academy (with The Long Blondes)
19th Bristol Anson Rooms (with The Long Blondes)
20th Southampton University (with The Long Blondes)
21st London Forum (with The Long Blondes)

MAY
3rd Leeds Live In Leeds
4th Sheffield Adventures in The Beetroot Field at Bungalows & Bears
17th Brighton The Great Escape
21st Manchester Metropolis
24th Nottingham Dot To Dot
25th Bristol Dot To Dot
27th Liverpool Sound City
29th London ICA
30th Glasgow The Admiral
31st Aberdeen Moshulu

JUNE
1st Edinburgh Studio 24

The band have also recently finished their debut album, Welcome To Goon Island, with Ross Orton (Fat Truckers, MIA, Bromheads Jacket, Kid Acne) in Sheffield. The album, a beguiling and innovative record in the great art school tradition, will be released through Mute in July 2008.

The band will also be releasing a single in May. This follows the release earlier this year of the single How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim and Darlin' which came out in 2007 and made it into the NME's singles of the year chart in December '07.