Dry Cleaning Announce 2022 UK + Ireland Live Shows
Dry Cleaning
Announce 2022 UK & Ireland Live Shows Debut Album New Long Leg Out 2 April
Dry Cleaning by Steve Gullick[L-R: Lewis Maynard, Nick Buxton, Florence Shaw, Tom Dowse]
In support of the debut album New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning have announced details of their long-awaited headline tour. The London-based band will play 14 shows across the UK and Ireland in Spring 2022. Tickets go on general sale this Friday 26th March at 10AM GMT, with a pre-sale beginning on Wednesday 24th March at 10AM GMT. To access the pre-sale sign up to the band’s mailing list here.
February 2022
Monday 14 – LIVERPOOL, Arts Club Theatre
Tuesday 15 – DUBLIN, The Button Factory
Wednesday 16 – BELFAST, Empire Music Hall
Friday 18 – EDINBURGH, Summerhall Arts Venue
Saturday 19 – GLASGOW, St. Lukes
Sunday 20 – LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club
Tuesday 22 – BIRMINGHAM, The Mill
Wednesday 23 – BRISTOL, SWX
Friday 25 – MANCHESTER, Academy 2
Saturday 26 – SHEFFIELD, Leadmill
Sunday 27 – NOTTINGHAM, Rescue Rooms
March 2022Tuesday 1 – PORTSMOUTH, Wedgewood Rooms
Wednesday 2 – BRIGHTON, Concorde 2
Thursday 3 – LONDON, O2 Kentish Town Forum
Earlier this month Dry Cleaning made their television debut on Later…with Jools Holland, performing the single ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’. Watch the performance in full HERE or via the player below.
‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ – Dry Cleaning
Live on Later… with Jools HollandDry Cleaning is Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals). Buoyed by the universal acclaim they received for 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, the foursome spent more and more of their lives on tour, refining their craft even further. The intensive time they spent together meant they developed a near-psychic knowledge of how to leave the right amount of space for each other in their songs.
The resulting New Long Leg, produced by John Parish, is more ambitious and complex, with Shaw’s spoken vocals tightly intertwined with the band’s restless instrumentals. Its lyrics are preoccupied by themes like dissociation, escapism, daydreaming, complicated feelings of love, anger, revenge, anxiety, the kitchen, lethargy, forgetfulness, and survival. Shaw extracts the most immense meaning from the most trivial things; she peppers the songs with a thousand tiny details, little witty asides about supermarkets, cupboards, beauty products and body parts add up to sonic landscapes that teem with the strange magic of ordinary life.
Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
Featuring the singles ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ and ‘Strong Feelings’,
New Long Leg will be released on 2 April digitally and on CD, cassette, standard black vinyl and limited-edition yellow vinyl.
The first 150 customers to pre-order New Long Leg from the 4AD Store will receive a 12”x12” print signed by the band, whilst selected indie retailers are offering a 7” vinyl of ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’ (b/w non-album track ‘Bug Eggs’) with pre-orders. For more information, head to drycleaning.ffm.to/newlongleg.opr.
Praise for Dry Cleaning
“One of the most exciting guitar bands of recent times.” – The Wire“Cerebral, caustic, exhilarating debut.” – MOJO ****“Pleasingly grubby, Florence Shaw’s absurdist deadpan lyrical collages are entirely their own.” – Uncut 8/10“Peerless peddlers of post-punk spoken-word ennui deliver another mini-masterpiece.” – The Sunday Times on ‘Strong Feelings’“Florence Shaw evokes Jarvis Cocker at his most sardonic.” – The Guardian on ‘Strong Feelings’“[Dry Cleaning] grafts post-punk grooves onto semi-absurdist poetry in a way that’s a little reminiscent of the great Scottish band Life Without Buildings, but Shaw’s vocals are uniquely, and a little menacingly, deadpan.”– The New York Times“[‘Strong Feelings’ is] a bundle of contradictions, wringing pathos out of detachment, narrative out of non sequiturs.”– Pitchfork on ‘Strong Feelings’“[‘Scratchard Lanyard’] has all the strange allure of their 2019 output, plus a little extra verve and polish courtesy of PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish.”– Rolling Stone on ‘Scratchcard Lanyard’“”Dry Cleaning infuse post-punk with psychedelia on their new single ‘Strong Feelings.’ The track is tied together by lead vocalist Florence Cleopatra Shaw — her lyrics are a quiet tempest of passing thoughts that are pointless and profound, often at the same time.” – The FADER“’Scratchcard Lanyard’ is a jumble of wordplay and wired tension. Bandleader Florence Shaw sounds disaffected and scattered, singing of bouncy balls and knitting circles and women in aviators firing bazookas, as she lands on one central refrain: ‘Do everything and feel nothing.’” – Stereogum
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