Hotly tipped Brighton alt-noise-pop trio Tigercub are pleased to announce they will release their new single Control on 7th February 2017, the latest track to be taken from their critically acclaimed debut album Abstract Figures in The Dark which is out now on Alcopop! Records.
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The news comes ahead of an extensive period of touring for the band who hit the road with both legendary post-punks The Fall and Brighton contemporaries Black Peaks throughout the UK over the coming weeks, before heading to Europe for a string of headline tour dates.
Tigercub were also ecstatic to recently be awarded an overseas touring grant alongside the likes of Slaves, White Lies and Cate Le Bon by BPI, the trade body that represents British recorded music businesses, and were previously recipients of the PRS Momentum fund to support their UK touring in November 2016.
A timely polemic on the current political climate, front man Jamie Hall explains of the inspiration behind the single: ‘As the world lurches to the right wing, and the flame of neo liberal capitalism burns on all we have left is our own moral compass to guide us through these dark waters – I’m proud there are millions of people who want a progressive world and know that someday we will get it.
‘I was born out of the wreckage of a failed marriage.
‘I am my own first world problem. I grew up with abnormalities both physically and mentally in an ex-mining town in northern england and it’s simultaneously my biggest regret and my glowing pride. Everyone is telling me this won’t work but I just don’t care anymore…
”Control’ is about swallowing your bile and saying absolutely nothing even though you know it’s rotting you away from the inside.
‘Constantly held hostage by over thinking and second guessing, I’m riding the stairway to apathy and I want to get off now.’
The album and single are already picking up a swathe of support at BBC Radio One, with daytime love from Clara Amfo, Daniel P Carter naming Control as his Rockest Record, Annie Mac selecting Tigercub as December’s New Name and Huw Stephens featuring the album on It’s Album Time.
Previous singles Omen & Burning Effigies made Top 10 & A-List on Amazing Radio, Virgin Radio named‘Omen’ their Record Of The Week, and Radio X saw ‘Omen’ & ‘Burning Effigies’ playlisted, with support from the Morning Show and X-Posure teams.
Abstract Figures in The Dark is out now on Alcopop! Records
2017 UK/EU Tour Dates:
21 Jan: Liverpool, UK – Arts Club*
24 Jan: Oxford,UK – Bullingdon^
25 Jan: Bournemouth, UK – The Anvil^
26 Jan: London, UK – The Dome^
28 Jan: London, UK – Tufnell Park Forum*
29 Jan: Manchester, UK – Jimmy’s Bar
30 Jan: Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s^
31 Jan: Newcastle, UK – The Cluny^
01 Feb: Manchester, UK – Ruby Lounge^
02 Feb: Nottingham, UK – Rock City Basement^
03 Feb: Bath, UK – Moles^
04 Feb: Leicester, UK – Firebug^
05 Feb: Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 3^
16 Feb: Amsterdam, NL – Sugar Factory
17 Feb: Hamburg, DE – Kleiner Donner
18 Feb: Cologne, DE – Underground
19 Feb: Berlin, DE – Kantine Berghain
20 Feb: Munich, DE – Sunny Red
21 Feb: Basel, CH – Hirscheneck
22 Feb: Milan, IT – Serraglio
24 Feb: Paris, FR – Supersonic
* = supporting The Fall
^ = supporting Black Peaks