British band Enter Shikari have revealed ‘Content 2.0’, a 1 hour+ documentary movie and track-by-track breakdown of their fifth critically-acclaimed, award-winning, UK Chart Top 5 album ‘The Spark’.
‘Content 2.0’ is an in-depth exploration of the record, charting the path from early demos to full-blown album recordings of many of the key tracks on the album, featuring interviews with band members, candid in-the-studio footage shot during the recording of the album, and never-before seen live footage taken on tour following ‘The Spark’ release.
‘Content 2.0’ was shot over a twelve month period, and then pieced together in a fevered, sleepless burst of editing genius by the band videographer / photographer. Tom Pullen, for the first anniversary of the album’s release.
Frontman Rou Reynolds says:
“Normally, you’d release one of these track-by-track things in order to bolster the marketing around the release of an album (we don’t knowingly title these recent releases “Content” by accident) but with the nature of The Spark’s lyrical content and what could be construed, by the casual listener, as the “departure from the normal Enter Shikari sound” (whatever that is), we wanted people to be comfortable with their own interpretations and perspectives of what the album is before we started crushing their dreams with our insights and expositions into the arcane technical aspects of the recording. We hope there’s something in the documentary for rabid fan and passing-interest viewer alike. Mr Pullen has excelled himself in putting it together”.
As part of the one year anniversary of ‘The Spark’ Enter Shikari also released a new remix of the first single ‘Live Outside’, mixed by their own alter-ego project the Shikari Sound System. The track is available via all download and streaming services worldwide: http://smarturl.it/LiveOutsideRemix The remix was accompanied with a vertically formatted remix of the original video, reimagined by the band’s longtime Ukranian visual collaborator Oleg Rooz: https://youtu.be/rQ8KANh-nKw
In addition was the announcement of new book ‘The Spark – Lyrics & Exegesis of Rou Reynolds’, a companion paperback book to 2017’s ‘Dear Future Historians’ hardback (now out of print, and still in high demand), which compiles lyrics and essays relating to the band’s past decade of releases, including the first four albums and stand-alone singles. The limited edition book is published by Faber Music and available from all good bookstores from 26th November, or by pre-order now from Enter Shikari’s store: https://www.entershikari.com/store
Enter Shikari are on tour in the UK, Europe and Russia from Dec 2018 through to mid-April 2019. This week they announced Toronto, Canada’s Palaye Royale main support for the 2019 UK dates (Milk Teeth have previously been announced as the main support for the UK / Scandinavia 2018 run of touring), with plans to announce the European main support and all openers soon.
Enter Shikari 2018/19 tour dates below:
DECEMBER 2018
1st – UK. Lincoln, Engine Shed
2nd – UK. Stoke, Keele SU
3rd – UK. Hull**, The Welly – *SOLD OUT*
4th – UK. Cardiff**, Tramshed – *SOLD OUT*
6th – UK. Frome**, Cheese & Grain
7th – UK. Exeter**, Lemongrove – *SOLD OUT*
8th – UK. Plymouth**, SU
9th – UK. Portsmouth**, Pyramids
12th – NO. Bergen**, Garage
13th – NO. Oslo**, John Dee
14th – SV. Stockholm**, Fryshuset
15th – SV. Gothenburg**, StickyFingers
16th – DK. Copenhagen**, Pumpehuset, Denmark
JANUARY 2019
10th – UK. Sheffield, o2 Academy
11th – UK. Nottingham, Rock City – *SOLD OUT*
12th – UK. London, o2 Brixton Academy
13th – UK. Leicester, o2 Academy
15th – UK. Llandudno, Cymru
16th – UK. Liverpool, o2 Academy
18th – UK. Bristol, o2 Academy
19th – UK. Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
20th – UK. Norwich, UEA
23rd – UK. Glasgow, Barrowland
24th – UK. Aberdeen, Beach Ballroom
25th – UK. Inverness, Ironworks
26th – UK. Preston, Guildhall
28th – UK. Northampton, Roadmender
29th – UK. Southampton, Guildhall
30th – UK. Cambridge, Corn Exchange
FEBRUARY 2019
1st – UK. Birmingham, o2 Academy
2nd – UK. Leeds, o2 Academy
3rd – UK. Manchester, Academy
4th – UK. Newcastle, o2 Academy
MARCH 2019
7th – RU. Moscow, Adrenaline Stadium
9th – RU. St Petersburg, A2 Green Concert
11th – RU. Nizhniy Novgorod, Jupiter
13th – RU. Krasnodar, Arena Hall
15th – RU. Ekaterinburg, Teleclub
16th – RU. Rostov-na-Donu, Arena Don
17th – RU. Krasnoyarsk, Grand Hall Sibir
19th – RU. Irkutsk. Sport Palace Trud
28th – NL. Tilburg, 013
29th – FR. Strasbourg, Laiterie
30th – FR. Paris, Bataclan
APRIL 2019
1st – IT. Milan, Alcatraz
2nd – DE. Munich, Neue Theatrefabrik
3rd – AT. Linz, Posthof
4th – HU. Budapest, Akvarium
6th – CZ. Prague, Forum Karlin
7th – DE. Dresden, Alter Schlachthof
8th – DE. Berlin, Huxleys
9th – DE. Leipzig, Conne Island
11th – DE. Erlangen, E-Werk
12th – DE. Dortmund, PWZ – *SOLD OUT*
13th – DE. Cologne, LMH – *SOLD OUT*
15th – DE. Wiesbaden, Schlachthof
16th – DE. Saarbrucken, Garage
17th – BE. Brussels, AB