ASYLUMS – line up stellar support slots this Autumn + new single…
LINE UP STELLAR SUPPORT SLOTS THIS AUTUMN
+ LISTEN TO MISSING PERSONS
The last few months have been busy for Asylums and they’re not about to get any quieter any time soon as the band prepare to head out on tour with The Enemy, Ash & Killing Joke this Autumn.
The Line Of Best Fit – ‘They are a DIY band, but not as you know it. Somewhere between a forceful wave of 90’s pop punk and Britpop, they’re entirely eccentric and entertaining’
BBC Radio One – ‘Remember the last time we heard of a great band from Southend-on-Sea – The Horrors? Well Asylums are just as good, but a whole load more colourful.’
NME Magazine – ‘Like being caught between a hammer and an anvil’
Clash Magazine – ‘Frenetic post-hardcore with a pop edge.’
Q Magazine – ‘Costal indie fuzz merchants’
Shortlist Magazine – ‘An irresistible cocktail of Lemonheads, Weezer & Sonic Youth’
The 405 – ‘Blistering energy that’s just down right fun’
Rocksound – ‘Like the scratchiest bits of Blur if they were grungers filled with energy. Intriguing right?’
The tour dates come as the band ready the follow-up to the BBC Radio One Play-listed track ‘Joy In A Small Wage’. On Nov 20th, the band will release new single ‘Missing Persons’ – a track of ‘Bandwagonesque’ era Teenage Fanclub channelled via Trompe Le Monde era Pixies – on the band’s own Cool Thing Records label.
Listen to ‘Missing Persons’
Missing Persons is for the overlooked, the outsiders, the dreamers, everyone bloody-minded enough to create for art’s sake. An anthem for the believers and the bereft. Those slaving away at a zero hour Mcjob so that they can fill the remaining hours of their day with the business of creating.
In the run up to these support slots, Asylums have spent the summer playing UK and European Festivals, with BBC Introducing inviting them to play Glastonbury Festival. The week before Glastonbury their then single “Joy In A Small Wage” was added to the BBC Radio 1 daytime playlist. It also picked up its first daytime play on XFM from Jo Good, and countless plays on BBC 6 Music(especially from Steve Lamacq), with a glowing Roundtable appearance seeing NME journo Leonie Cooper describe the band as “stadium Cribs”. Oh, and it reached #7 on theSpotify New Music Chart, while the accompanying video made appearances on Soccer AM and Sunday Brunch. Previous 2015 shows with The Vaselines, Black Grape, Carl Barat & Mini Mansions.
Really not bad for four Missing Persons who were sat in their bedrooms eighteen months ago without a pot to piss in, writing a song.
October
31st Birmingham The Institute (with Killing Joke)
November
6th London Roundhouse (with Killing Joke)
7th Southend The Railway (Cool Thing Club Night)
17th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (with Reverend & The Makers0
20th London Forum (with The Enemy)
21st Coventry Empire (with The Enemy)
22nd Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (with The Enemy)
December
2nd Bristol Bierkeller (with Ash)
3rd London Shepherds Bush Empire (with Ash)
5th Newcastle Riverside (with Ash)
6th Glasgow ABC(with Ash)
8th Manchester The Ritz (with Ash)
9th Wolverhampton Leadmill (with Ash)
12th Norwich Waterfront (with Ash)
13th Brighton Concorde 2 (with Ash)
14th Cardiff Uni Students Union (with Ash)
15th Dublin Olympia Theatre (with Ash)
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