Brighton indie punks GENDER ROLES have announced rescheduled dates for their upcoming UK headline tour. Originally due to take place in March and April, the new run of shows are confirmed for September 2020 and will be in support of the trio’s highly successful debut album PRANG, out now via Big Scary Monsters.
The band will no longer play in Newcastle on the tour but have confirmed a new date in Norwich, while False Advertising will continue to support across all dates.
GENDER ROLES comment:
“Our UK tour has been rescheduled for September 2020. This is not a drill, that’s right, it’s really still happening in September 2020. Catch us cruising the UK in some staggered comfort with False Advertising and wonderful local opening bands each night.”
Rescheduled dates:
18.09.2020 – London, The Dome (14+)
19.09.2020 – Norwich, Waterfront (14+)
21.09.2020 – Sheffield, Network (14+)
22.09.2020 – Glasgow, Poetry Club (14+)
23.09.2020 – Birmingham, Asylum 2 (14+)
24.09.2020 – Manchester, Gullivers (18+)
25.09.2020 – Bristol, Exchange (16+)
Refunds for Newcastle will be available at point of purchase and tickets for all other previous dates remain valid. Additional tickets can be purchased here: https://www.genderrolesuk.com
The upcoming tour follows GENDER ROLES‘ mostly sold-out 2019 headline run, Boston Manor support tour and recent European headline tour. The band are also set to appear at Live At Leeds and Download Festival this summer.
GENDER ROLES recently released their latest single ‘Always’, taken from PRANG, check it out here:
The triohave enjoyed strong support from the likes of Annie Mac,Radio 1 Rock Show with Daniel P. Carter, Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq, Radio X’s John Kennedy, Kerrang! Radio’s Alex Baker, Amazing Radio and more. The band also entered Maida Vale Studios in November 2019 to play a ‘Live Gig’ session on BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Annie Mac.
PRANG has not been short of praise from the press with Kerrang! calling it “an album packed with unskipable delights” and DIY stating that GENDER ROLES are “the UK’s most vibrant young punk prospects”.
Forming after a chance initial meeting at drummer Jordan Lilford’s Brighton Pride party in 2015, GENDER ROLES, also consisting of guitarist/vocalist Tom Bennett and bassist Jared Tomkins, found that Brighton’s DIY scene was the ideal hub to cut their teeth and allow themselves to grow as a band. The inspiration and ethos they could draw on in those early days has been integral to the act they’ve become.
While the coastal city remains the band’s home, it cannot be said to have contained them. Gigging throughout Europe and the States, packing out tents at festivals such as 2000 Trees, and sharing the stage with heroes from Jamie Lenman to Touche Amore and Pup, GENDER ROLES have built on those early foundations to amass a growing fanbase, drawn to their melodic grunge/punk and dry, candid sense of humour.
Documenting that growth have been the band’s two EPs released so far, 2017’s Planet X-Ray and 2018’s Lazer Rush. While the theme for those EPs was “overcoming the past and looking forward to the future together”, the new, debut album, PRANG, focuses on much more immediate issues, even if it did come from a particularly happy place for GENDER ROLES.
Purchase PRANG here: https://bsm.rocks/prangout