Hot off the heels of winning Best Album at the Kerrang! Awards for Top 5 album ‘The Spark’, the soaring career of alt rock band Enter Shikari continues to rise as they announce their longest UK tour to date beginning on 1st December 2018.
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 13th July.
The extensive ‘Stop The Clocks’ tour which takes in London’s Brixton Academy, The Welly in Hull, the Cheese & Grain in Frome, Cymru in Llandudno and Glasgow Barrowlands is an opportunity to see the band up close on their longest ever UK tour.
Rou Reynolds says:
‘Our most recent UK tours have been of the “eight or nine shows in arenas / big sheds” variety, so we consciously wanted to switch it up a bit going into 2019. Enter Shikari have always kept dipping back into more intimate venues over the years, no matter how big our headline shows have become. That’s where we cut our teeth. The heat-sweat-and-visceral-human-connection of smaller gigs is every bit the equal of the impressive-scale-and-expensive-production of arena shows. We’ve never seen the latter as an evolution away from the former. They exist on opposite sides of the same coin for us.
‘It’s also no secret that austerity and the looming potential disaster of Brexit have seen people having to be a lot more careful with how they spend their money. With things being what they are right now, it doesn’t seem fair for only those who can afford the travel to a major city for a night out (plus the inevitable other costs that go along with it) to be able to see a show. Playing 28 dates across the UK is our way of taking what we do back to as many people as possible, in the most intimate and direct way’.
‘Stop The Clocks’ UK tour dates below:
Saturday 01/12/2018 Lincoln, Engine Shed
Sunday 02/12/2018 Keele, SU
Monday 03/12/2018 Hull, The Welly
Tuesday 04/12/2018 Cardiff, Tramshed
Thursday 06/12/2018 Frome, Cheese & Grain
Friday 07/12/2018 Exeter, Lemongrove
Saturday 08/12/2018 Plymouth, SU
Sunday 09/12/2018 Portsmouth, Pyramids
Thursday 10/01/2019 Sheffield, o2 Academy
Friday 11/01/2019 Nottingham, Rock City
Saturday 12/01/2019 London, o2 Brixton Academy
Sunday 13/01/2019 Leicester, o2 Academy
Tuesday 15/01/2019 Llandudno, Cymru
Wednesday 16/01/2019 Liverpool, o2 Academy
Friday 18/01/2019 Bristol, o2 Academy
Saturday 19/01/2019 Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
Sunday 20/01/2019 Norwich, UEA
Wednesday 23/01/2019 Glasgow, Barrowland
Thursday 24/01/2019 Aberdeen, Beach Ballroom
Friday 25/01/2019 Inverness, Ironworks
Saturday 26/01/2019 Preston, Guildhall
Monday 28/01/2019 Northampton, Roadmender
Tuesday 29/01/2019 Southampton, Guildhall
Wednesday 30/01/2019 Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Friday 01/02/2019 Birmingham, o2 Academy
Saturday 02/02/2019 Leeds, o2 Academy
Sunday03/02/2019 Manchester Academy
Monday 04/02/2019 Newcastle, o2 Academy
Support bands to be announced.
Enter Shikari are currently in the midst of festival season which has seen them play to huge crowds at Germany’s Rock Am Ring / Rock Im Park and Vainstream festivals, Austria’s Novarock and Czech Republic’s Rock For People. The band has headline sets at the UK’s 2000 Trees festival (Main Stage) in Gloucestershire in July and BoomTown Fair (Town Centre Stage) in August, both of which come accompanied by intimate warm-up shows which sold out in minutes.
2018 Festival and European Tour Dates below:
JULY
13th Hatfield. Forum, UK (supported by Boston Manor)
14th 2000trees Festival, Gloucestershire, Withington, UK
28th Fezen Festival, Szekesfehervar, Hungary
AUGUST
10th Southampton. The Joiners Arms, UK
11th Boomtown Festival, Winchester, UK
12th Urban Rock, Brno, BVV Exhibition Centre, Czech
DECEMBER
12th Bergen, Garage, Norway
13th Oslo, John Dee, Norway
14th Stockholm, Fryshuset, Sweden
15th Gothenburg, Sticky Fingers, Sweden
16th Copenhagen, Pumpehuset, Denmark
MARCH
28th Holland, Tilburg, 013
28th France, Strasbourg, Laiterie
30th France, Paris, Bataclan
APRIL
1st Italy, Milan, Alcatraz
2nd Germany, Munich, Neue Theatrefabrik
3rd Austria, Linz, Posthof
6th Czech, Prague, Forum Karlin
7th Germany, Dresden, Alter Schlachthof
8th Germany, Berlin, Huxleys
9th Germany, Leipzig, Conne Island
11th Germany, Erlangen E-Werk
12th Germnay, Dortmund PZW
13th Germany, Cologne, LMH
15th Germany, Wiesbaden, Schlachthof
16th Germany, Saarbrucken, Garage
17th Belgium, Brussels, AB