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Kids In Glass Houses announce November headline dates
June 29th, 2010 by RBR
Welsh quintet Kids in Glass Houses are excited to announce a second UK headline tour this year, which is set to kick off in Norwich on November 11 and will culminate in a London Shepherds Bush Empire show on November 24.
Their second album ‘DIRT’ is out now, and has so far spawned three Radio 1 A-List singles: Matters At All, Youngblood (Let It Out), and current single Undercover Lover, which the band recently performed at Radio One’s Big Weekend with Frankie Sandford from The Saturdays.
Prior to their forthcoming headline tour, Kids in Glass Houses will also be performing at this year’s T4 On the Beach, T in the Park, the Oxegen Festival and Reading & Leeds Festivals.
Tickets for the November tour go on general sale on Friday 25 June at 9am from all usual box offices/agents including the numbers below, as well as a 24hr Hotline on 0871 2200 260 or online at www.gigsandtours.com.
A limited amount of tickets will go on sale from the band’s own website at 9AM on Wednesday 23 June at www.kidsinglasshouses.com/tickets. Anyone purchasing their tickets from the site will be given a link to watch an exclusive behind the scenes video of the band on their last tour.
The opening band on these dates will be chosen from the eight bands currently on the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Festival Tour. Kids In Glass Houses have joined up with the online platform for emerging artists to give one of these up and coming bands the opportunity to join the November tour! The chosen band will be confirmed in September.
The full UK dates are as follows:
July
Sun 4 Weston Super Mare T4 On The Beach
Fri 9 Balado, Scotland T in the Park
Sun 11 Punchestown, Ireland Oxegen Festival
August
Fri 27 Leeds Leeds Festival
Sat 28 Reading Reading Festival
November
Thu 11 Norwich UEA £13.00 / 01603 508 050
Fri 12 Southampton Guildhall £13.00 / 023 80632601
Sun 14 Cardiff University Great Hall £13.00 / 029 20781458
Mon 15 Bristol Academy £13.00 / 0844 477 2000
Wed 17 Glasgow ABC Barrowlands £13.00 / 0844 477 2000
Thu 18 Birmingham Academy £13.00 / 0844 477 2000
Fri 19 Manchester Academy £13.00 / 0161 832 1111
Sun 21 Newcastle Academy £13.00 / 0844 444 2000
Mon 23 Sheffield Academy £13.00 / 0114 222 8777
Wed 24 London Shepherds Bush Empire £14.00 /
Kids In Glass Houses post video for ‘Matters At All’
February 1st, 2010 by SophieKids In Glass Houses have posted their new video for Matters At All, the second single from second album DIRT, available 29 March through Roadrunner Records.
Check it out HERE.
Kids In Glass Houses New Album Tracklisting Revealed + Special Guest Info
January 14th, 2010 by Sophie
Welsh quintet Kids in Glass Houses are set to release their second album ‘DIRT’ on March 29th. Kids in Glass Houses are also confirmed as the main support for Lostprophets on their 2010 UK tour. The album will be preceded by the single ‘Matters At All’ which will be available for download January 31st.
The follow-up to 2008’s ‘Smart Casual’ which spawned singles such as ‘Give Me What I Want’, ‘Easy Tiger’ and ‘Saturday’, new album ‘DIRT’ was recorded in Texas at Sonic Ranch Studios with Jason Perry (The Blackout, ‘A’) Parts were also recorded on the road during the New Found Glory tour (who appear on Maybe Tomorrow), and at Jason’s studio in Essex, where the band met Frankie Sandford (The Saturdays) by chance, and invited her to appear on ‘Undercover Lover’.
“The album doesn’t pander to any fleeting trends,” Aled emphasizes. “It’s the most honest record we could have made. There are a few curveballs. It’s a bit rawer than our first. It’s quite a bit more expansive and the arrangements are more interesting. The most noticeable thing will be the inclusion and experimentation with electro elements, brass and strings. We’ve never wanted to cut ourselves off from playing with these things and making them part of our music. There’s some grandiose bits, some fun bits and some textured pretty bits that step away from the two guitars, bass, drums and vocals approach. It was a lot of fun. We all just wanna be Prince, really,” he laughs.
“The vibe this time is a lot less processed,” Iain (Mahanty, guitars) continues. “A lot of music around now sounds like it’s coming off a conveyor belt. We wanted to step away from that, stick our necks out and go ‘Hang on, we’re a rock band. Let’s have it!’”
Track listing:
1. Artbreaker I
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Sunshine
4. Matters at all
5. Youngblood
6. Lilli Rose
7. Giving up
8. For Better Or Hearse
9. Undercover Lover (featuring: Frankie Sandford)
10. Maybe Tomorrow (special guests: NFG)
11. The Morning Afterlife
12. Hunt The Haunted
13. Artbreaker II
Catalogue numbers:
CD – RR 7800 2
Digital album – RR 7800 0 (same tracklisting as CD)
Digital album, special edition – RR 7800 9 (same as above but with three bonus
tracks: 14 – Believer, 15 – Reputation, 16 – When The World Comes Down)
Having recently completed a headline stint across the UK around the release of their download single ‘Youngblood (Let It Out)’, the band are looking forward to playing tracks from their brand new album to fellow Welshmen Lostprophets’ audiences as their Special Guests on the following dates:
Thu 4th Feb – LEICESTER De Montfort Hall
Fri 5th Feb – OXFORD Academy 2 HEADLINE
Sat 6th Feb – HULL City Hall
Sun 7th Feb – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Mon 8th Feb – LIVERPOOL Academy 2 HEADLINE
Tue 9th Feb – MARGATE Winter Gardens
Wed 10th Feb – PORTSMOUTH Guildhall
Thu 11th Feb – LONDON Brixton O2 Academy
Sat 13th Feb – PRESTON 53 DegreesHallH
Sun 14th Feb – LEEDS O2 Academy
Mon 15th Feb – CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Wed 17th Feb – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
Thu 18th Feb – GLASGOW O2 Academy
Fri 19th Feb – EDINBURGH Corn Exchange
Sun 21st Feb – YEOVIL Westland Leisure Complex
Mon 22nd Feb – NORWICH UEA
Tue 23rd Feb – NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
Thu 25th Feb – MANCHESTER Apollo
Fri 26th Feb – SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall
Sun 28th Feb – BRISTOL O2 Academy
Mon 1st Mar – PORT TALBOT Afan Lido Leisure Centre
Tickets for the Lostprophets dates cost £22.50m and £10 for the two headline shows. Both are available from 24hr cc hotline: 0871 2200 260 / http://www.gigsandtours.com
‘Young Blood’ By Kids In Glass Houses Released Today
October 5th, 2009 by SophieKids In Glass Houses have released their new single ‘Young Blood’ as a digital download today. The song is taken from their currently untitled next album and is available on iTunes and all of the usual digital outlets.
The official video for the song can currently be viewed in Ruled By Rock’s ‘Video Of The Week’. Check it out!
