On March 16th, Fickle Friends will release You Are Someone Else – their hotly anticipated debut album – to the world. Today, they share the album opener Wake Me Up just as they prepare to head out on their massive UK tour next week.
Like the hugely popular singles that have preceded it, Wake Me Up is a classic Fickle Friends shimmery pop anthem that kicks off a terrifically irresistible debut album. Over the last year it’s also become a pinnacle of their hugely popular live set too. Lyrically, it see’s frontwoman Natti Shiner play around with some of the themes that re-occur on the record – relationship paranoia and angsty obsession. On writing the track, Natti says – ”Wake Me Up’ song is about wanting a relationship to work so bad but knowing deep down, it’s not going anywhere. It was the last song we wrote for the album’.
Fickle Friends have just embarked on their biggest UK tour to date. Despite having played now together over 350 times across the country, this time the band will extend their reach to play to some of the few cities in the country that they have yet to grace. From there, they will head b straight to Europe to do a run of dates in all the major cities and in May, they look to the USA. See full dates below.
1. Wake Me Up
2. Glue
3. Swim
4. Bite
5. Hard To Be Myself
6. Lovesick
7. Say No More
8. Heartbroken
9. In My Head (ditty)
10. Rotation
11. Hello Hello
12. Paris
13. Brooklyn
14. Midnight
15. She
16. Useless
Fickle Friends have also announced a massive UK regional tour next year.
See full dates below.
26/02 Globe, Cardiff
27/02 Academy 2, Leicester
28/02 Sugarmill, Stoke
01/03 Central, Wrexham
03/03 Brickyard, Carlisle
04/03 Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
06/03 Fibbers, York
07/03 Welly, Hull
08/03 Met Lounge, Peterborough
10/03 Chinnery’s, Southend
11/03 Epic Studios, Norwich
12/03 Academy 2, Oxford
14/03 Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
16/03 Platform, Lincoln
18/03 Komedia, Bath
19/03 Concorde 2, Brighton
21/03 Academy 2, Liverpool
22/03 Belle, Edinburgh