Earlier this year Weirds released their debut album ‘Swarmculture’ on Alcopop! Records, whilst Londoners Crows’ latest is their 2016 sophomore EP ‘Cold Comfort’ on Telharmonium.

As for Pulled Apart by Horses, earlier this year they released their fourth album ‘The Haze’ via Caroline Records.

NOVEMBER
29 MILTON KEYNES The Craufurd Arms*
30 SOUTHEND Chinnery’s*
DECEMBER
01 NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT Strings Bar*
03 PLYMOUTH The Hub*
04 BRIGHTON Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar*
05 SWANSEA Sin City*
07 DERBY The Venue*
08 LIVERPOOL Arts Club^
09 HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club^
11 STOKE ON TRENT Sugarmill^
12 HULL The Welly^
13 HUDDERSFIELD The Parish^
14 COVENTRY Empire
17 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club*^

* w/ Weirds
^ w/ Crows

Across both rooms of the venue, the main room and the community room, the band will be playing alongside Blood Red Shoes, Honeyblood, Weirds, Baba Naga, Crows and Forever Cult. Tickets cost £16.50 and can be purchased here.

Earlier this year the band released their fourth album ‘The Haze’ via Caroline Records. It should also be noted that this is the final date of the band’s upcoming tour which starts later this month. The rest of the dates are listed below.

NOVEMBER
29 MILTON KEYNES The Craufurd Arms
30 SOUTHEND Chinnery’s
DECEMBER
01 NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT Strings Bar
03 PLYMOUTH The Hub
04 BRIGHTON Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
05 SWANSEA Sin City
07 DERBY The Venue
08 LIVERPOOL Arts Club
09 HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club
11 STOKE ON TRENT Sugarmill
12 HULL The Welly
13 HUDDERSFIELD The Parish
14 COVENTRY Empire
17 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club

Earlier this year the band released their fourth album, ‘The Haze’, via Caroline Records.

NOVEMBER
29 MILTON KEYNES The Craufurd Arms
30 SOUTHEND Chinnery’s
DECEMBER
01 NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT Strings Bar
03 PLYMOUTH The Hub
04 BRIGHTON Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
05 SWANSEA Sin City
07 DERBY The Venue
08 LIVERPOOL Arts Club
09 HEBDEN BRIDGE Trades Club
11 STOKE ON TRENT Sugarmill
12 HULL The Welly
13 HUDDERSFIELD The Parish
14 COVENTRY Empire
17 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club

“It is with great sadness that we have had to pull the plug on Fort Fest 2017, due to low ticket sales. Despite our best efforts, we simply couldn’t sell enough tickets to deliver the festival that we had aspired to provide and everyone involved in it deserved.

Jon, Ian and the Fort Fest team.”

Both bands will be joining the likes of Black Foxxes, Tigress, Our Hollow Our Home and more at the Bedfordshire based festival, which takes place at Scald End Farm, from the 4th to the 6th August.

Early bird weekend tickets are currently available at £55, which includes camping and parking, can be purchased here.

Hundred Reasons, Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties, Ben Marwood, Tellison, Jim Lockey, Bare Knuckle Parade and Non Canon will perform exclusive sets at the festival, along with other bands who are already performing across the weekend.

They join Slaves, Nothing But Thieves,The Wonder Years, The Front Bottoms, Beach Slang, Black Peaks, Gnarwolves, Slotface, De Staat, The Hyena Kill, Get Inuit, Acres, Peaness, Moses, Wallflower, Deaf Havana, Oathbreaker, Milk Teeth, The Dirty Nil, Svalbard, Employed To Serve, Lemuria, The Winter Passing, Jamie Lenman, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Lower Than Atlantis, Mallory Knox, The Menzingers, Young Guns, Skinny Lister, Rolo Tomassi, Roam, Pulled Apart By Horses, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Feed The Rhino, Muncie Girls and more at the Cheltenham based festival, which takes place on July 6-8th at Upcote Farm.

Tickets for 2000trees are on sale now, and you can find out addition information at the official website.

Deaf Havana, Oathbreaker, Milk Teeth, The Dirty Nil, Svalbard, Employed To Serve, Lemuria, The Winter Passing and more are among the latest names to join the event.

They join Slaves, Nothing But Thieves,The Wonder Years, The Front Bottoms, Beach Slang, Black Peaks, Gnarwolves, Slotface, De Staat, The Hyena Kill, Get Inuit, Acres, Peaness, Moses, Wallflower, Jamie Lenman, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Lower Than Atlantis, Mallory Knox, The Menzingers, Young Guns, Skinny Lister, Rolo Tomassi, Roam, Pulled Apart By Horses, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Feed The Rhino, Muncie Girls and more at the Cheltenham based festival, which takes place on July 6-8th at Upcote Farm.

Tickets for 2000trees are on sale now, and you can find out addition information at the official website.

Their schizophrenic take on alt-rock has seen them play on some of the country’s biggest stages. However, as they matured so did their music. Third album ‘Blood’ was less frantic and more structured, which seemed to split their fans. Having drifted away arguably too far from what made them so unique in the first place it’s up to new album ‘The Haze’ to put things right one way or another.

There are still plenty of traits of the band’s early work. At times, their bat-shit mental side comes out like on ‘Prince of Meat’ with a riff and stunning lead guitar work from James Brown that packs more groove than they’ve ever had before. Also, what’s best is that their unconventional and hilariously witty lyrics are still present throughout the record.

‘The Big What If’ is the highlight of the album, as it gives you the biggest glimpse of their potential. Vocally, singer Tom Hudson still remains the same, he sounds scruffy and rough around the edges but so aggressive he’s lucky he doesn’t get a nosebleed every time he relentlessly screams down the microphone. There’s less weird breakdowns than we’re used to but musically speaking, their song-structure is much more refined like on ‘Flash Lads’ where you can see how the band have learned to gel together.

‘The Haze’ shows just far they’ve come on as musicians in the last ten years, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily going in the right direction. This new sense of maturity they have doesn’t always work out well for them on the album. Their movement towards a more indie friendly sound at times leaves you waiting for a payoff on various tracks that never comes. ‘Lamping’ is pure middle of the road rock with a weak chorus, which could be mistaken for a Pixies B-side that was left for scrap.

Pulled Apart by Horses arrived in a blaze of glory with their inventive style, but as they’ve improved as musicians, they’ve managed that style and turned their blaze into a well controlled flame. They still write catchy and individual post-rock that will go on unrivalled, but it’s nowhere near what they’ve been capable of in the past and what they could still produce in the future.

LOUIS KERRY

The video sees the Brighton band exploring and wandering around their hometown. The track itself is taken from the group’s debut album, ‘Abstract Figures in the Dark’, which was released last year on Alcopop! Records.

As well as the aforementioned tour, the band will also be making appearances at Handmade Festival in Leicester on the 29th April and Truck Festival in Oxfordshire, which runs from the 21st to the 23rd July.

MARCH
27 Oxford, O2 Academy 2*
28 London, Scala*
29 Bristol, Thekla*
30 Southampton, Talking Heads*
APRIL
01 Derby, 2Q Festival*
02 Birmingham, Mama Roux’s*
03 Norwich, Waterfront Studio*
05 Glasgow, King Tuts*
06 Manchester, Sound Control*
07 Newcastle, Think Tank*
08 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club*
29 LEICESTER Handmade Festival
JULY
21-23 OXFORDSHIRE Truck Festival

* w/ Pulled Apart by Horses + Thee MVPs

The latest release by the former Brighton alternative act is their 2016 debut album, ‘Abstract Figures in the Dark, on Alcopop! Records. The latter London garage punks released their compilation album, ‘Most Valuable Players’, last year on Easy Action Records.

MARCH
27 Oxford, O2 Academy 2
28 London, Scala
29 Bristol, Thekla
30 Southampton, Talking Heads
APRIL
01 Derby, 2Q Festival
02 Birmingham, Mama Roux’s
03 Norwich, Waterfront Studio
05 Glasgow, King Tuts
06 Manchester, Sound Control
07 Newcastle, Think Tank
08 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club