It is taken from their upcoming fourth album ‘Alamort’. Produced by Bob Cooper (Nai Harvest, Self Defense Family), it will be released on the 16th February 2018 via Xtra Mile Recordings.

The band will also be playing the following UK shows.

DECEMBER
16 LEICESTER Dryden Street Social w/ Andrea Kenny + Billy Razor
17 NORWICH The Owl Sanctuary w/ March, The Yatch Club + Chapter of Wolves
20 CAMBRIDGE The Corner House^ w/ Sam Russo
21 LONDON New Cross Inn^ w/ Myelin + I Said Goodbye
FEBRUARY 2018
16 LONDON The Lexington*^
17 NORWICH Arts Centre*^
APRIL
27 BOLTON Alma Inn w/ Adore//Repel, Track and Field, Pardon Us + Chloe Glover
28 SHELBY Pop Punk Pile Up Festival

^ w/ Grieving
* w/ Nervus

The full list of dates are shown below:

FEBRUARY
13 BRISTOL Exchange
14 MANCHESTER The Peer Hat
15 GLASGOW 13th Note
16 CLEETHORPES Moon On The Water
17 DERBY The Hairy Dog
18 LONDON New Cross Inn

It is taken from their upcoming fourth album ‘Alamort’. Produced by Bob Cooper (Nai Harvest, Self Defense Family), it will be released on the 16th February 2018 via Xtra Mile Recordings.

The band will also be playing the following UK shows.

DECEMBER
17 NORWICH The Owl Sanctuary w/ March, The Yatch Club + Chapter of Wolves
20 CAMBRIDGE The Corner House^ w/ Sam Russo
21 LONDON New Cross Inn^ w/ Myelin + I Said Goodbye
FEBRUARY 2018
16 LONDON The Lexington*^
17 NORWICH Arts Centre*^
APRIL
27 BOLTON Alma Inn w/ Adore//Repel, Track and Field, Pardon Us + Chloe Glover

^ w/ Grieving
* w/ Nervus

Culture Shock, Random Hand, Beat the Red Light, The Tuts, Counterpunch, Rougheck Riot, Sam Russo (full band), Atterkop, Chewing On Tinfoil, PMX, Rebuke, Happy Accidents, Sounds of Swami, In Evil Hour, Freddy Fudd Pucker, Tom Aylott, and Dead Drummer will join the likes of Propagandhi, Wonk Unit, The Bennies and more at the Manchester based festival from the 19th to the 21st April 2018. More acts shall be added soon.

The event will take place across various Manchester venues including Gorilla, Rebellion, The Bread Shed, Zombie Shack, Underdog, Font and The Thirsty Scholar. Advance tickets cost £40 and can be purchased here. Keep a tab on their Facebook for future updates.

They will be join the likes of The Dauntless Elite, Hot Mass, Sam Russo, and more at the event, which will headlined by a Rancid tribute act, …And Out Comes the Tribute Band.

This will take place at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on Saturday 16th December. Advance tickets cost £11 and can be purchased here. For more info, click here.

Headlined by a Rancid tribute act, …And Out Comes the Tribute Band, the mini-fest will also see The Dauntless Elite, Hot Mass, Sam Russo (full band), Throwing Stuff, Night Flowers, Young Conservatives, Natterers and Yoi join in on the festive fun. More acts shall be revealed soon.

This will take place at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on Saturday 16th December. Advance tickets cost £11 and can be purchased here. For more info, click here.

It is taken from the London indie rockers’ upcoming debut EP, ‘Reservoirs’, which will be released on the 4th August via Uncle M Music. You can pre-order it here and receive a free download of the song ‘Fifteen’.

The band will also be playing a free record release show at The Shacklewell Arms in London on the 17th August, with Sam Russo and Foreign Correspondence Music.

Apologies, I Have None, Sam Russo (full band), Kamikaze Girls, Hot Mass, Broadbay, Throwing Stuff, Happy Accidents, Pale Kids, Crystal Piss, and Aerial Salad will all be playing the Manchester based all dayer at Gullivers on the 10th June. This will also be the hundredth gig put on by Moving North promotions.

Standard tickets cost £10, with a charity based option for £15. Every purchase for the latter will see £5 go towards aiding Manchester based homeless charity The Boothe Centre. You can purchase them here. For more info about the show you can click here.

Freed from the routine of a regular tour or promoting a new record, he freely dipped in and out of both of his albums, 2012’s ‘Storm’ and the 2015’s follow up ‘Greyhound Dreams’, seemingly playing whatever felt right. He joked about trading stories of excess backstage as he nursed his pint and lamented his train home and early alarm, before launching into rowsing renditions of tracks that told these tales like ‘Dead End Roads’, ‘Letting Go’ and ‘Crayfish Tales’. Fan favourite ‘Dry Shampoo’ proved particularly difficult to avoid a trademark Russo foot-stomp, with the occasional lapse and subsequent lapse drawing laughs from the crowd. Tracks from ‘Greyhound Dreams’ such as ‘Runaways’ and ‘Small Town Shoes’ showed the considered and delicate side to Russo’s writing, and the performance of brand new track ‘Good & Gone’ left the hope of a third album hanging in the air. There’s a few universes in which Sam Russo is as big as Frank Turner and there’s probably a few in which he still plays open mic gigs in pubs, but there’s no doubt every version of him approaches each gig with the same relish and joy, and that’s why it’s always such an honest and enjoyable experience to see him play.

The last time Dave Hause was in London was December 2013 when he was touring his sophomore effort ‘Devour’, and one of the first things he tells the crowd is it’s been too long. Back then he was touring solo, but things have changed. In between ‘Devour’ and this year’s excellent ‘Bury Me In Philly’, Hause played some shows with his beloved old band The Loved Ones, worked on a new The Falcon album with Brendan Kelly and started the (semi-serious but fully-excellent) The All Brights, and the taste for being in a band again clearly took hold. Hause now tours with his band The Mermaid and he seems all the better for it, bounding around the stage with more energy than most teenage front-men have.

The band begin the show with ‘The Flinch’ from ‘Bury Me In Philly’ which gets a slightly understated response from the crowd, however moving swiftly into ‘Autism Vaccine Blues’ from ‘Devour’ begins to get everyone going. Hause has never toured his early songs with a band and hearing them fully imagined on stage breathes a whole new life into them. By the time he moves back to Bury Me In Philly opener ‘With You’ the crowd are completely with him and singing almost every word back.

Other highlights from the new record include the title track, which has a distinctly The Loved Ones energy about it, ‘Shaky Jesus’, which has a wonderfully building and atmospheric one word refrain of “Holy”, and ‘Dirty Fucker’, which Hause venomously dedicates to President Trump. In general though the older tracks are the ones that really invigorate the audience. This is particularly true for songs from ‘Devour, ‘which was a wonderfully composed album that has always deserved a full band tour, such as ‘Same Disease’ and ‘The Great Depression’.

Hause performed his first encore solo with an acoustic guitar, using it as an opportunity to shout out Chuck Ragan and The Revival Tour (which was the first exposure many people in the UK had to artists such as Hause and Tim Barry) and perform ‘Prague (Revive Me)’. He also included a few for the long term fans with the title track from his debut album ‘Resolutions’ and The Loved Ones classic ‘Jane’ (although Hause suggesting it may be the final time he plays it was heartbreaking for anyone unable to make a The Loved Ones reunion). The Mermaid then returned for the final few tracks, with Hause shouting out his younger brother on lead guitar before a contagiously optimistic renditions of ‘C’mon Kid’ from ‘Resolutions’ closer ‘We Could Be The Kings’.

Throughout the entire performance Hause had a joyous smile etched on to his face, clearly relishing performing as part of a band and seeing his older songs fully realised. Even ‘The Mermaid’ seem to find a particular pleasure in performing songs from ‘Devour’ (presumably they were fans before being asked to join), and this energy flowed from the stage into the crowd throughout, and everyone in the room was more than happy to throw it right back. Hause’s persistence and perseverance over the years meant the audience were always going to be behind him, but seeing some so deserving triumph in such a resounding way was more than a little bit special.

TOM GANE