Echo & The Bunnymen back with new LP + October Tour

NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

ALBUM DETAILS REVEALED

FIRST TRACK AVAILABLE NOW

BMG | 5 October 2018

Listen to SEVEN SEAS here: https://bunnymen.lnk.to/SevenSeasPR

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN have announced a series of UK and Ireland tour dates for this autumn. Following their sold-out May tour, the band will now play eight further shows, as follows:

OCTOBER

Fri 12 DUBLIN Olympia

Sun 14 WARRINGTON Parr Hall

Mon 15 CARDIFF St David’s Hall

Tue 16 READING Hexagon

Thu 18 LONDON Palladium

Sat 20 NORTHAMPTON Derngate

Sun 21 WARWICK Arts Centre

Mon 22 YORK Barbican

Anyone pre-ordering the new album, THE STARS, THE OCEANS & THE MOON from the band’s online shop before 10.00am on Wednesday 30 May will get exclusive access to tickets [for the UK shows only] before their general sale. The 48-hour priority ticket access window will then open at 10.00am on Wednesday 30 May and will close at 9.59am on Friday 1 June. Tickets will then go on general sale from 10.00am on Friday 1 June for the UK here: https://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/echo-and-the-bunnymen

and for Dublin here: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/

THE STARS, THE OCEANS & THE MOON can be pre-ordered here: https://bunnymen.tmstor.es/

As previously revealed, THE STARS, THE OCEANS & THE MOON sees the band return to their peerless back catalogue to reinterpret thirteen of their most beloved songs with ‘strings and things’. The album also features two future classics – THE SOMNAMBULIST and HOW FAR. Recorded at The Dog House Studios with co-producer Andy Wright, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN handpicked the selection of tracks for the album from their majestic, four-decade spanning archive. Of the new versions, Ian McCulloch said, “I’m not doing this for anyone else. I’m doing it as it’s important to me to make the songs better. I have to do it”.

The first track released from the album – SEVEN SEAS – is available now to stream, to download and as an instant grat with all album pre-orders via the artist store or iTunes. Originally a Top Twenty hit in 1984, SEVEN SEAS was the third single from their classic fourth studio album, OCEAN RAIN.

THE STARS, THE OCEANS & THE MOON | TRACK LISTING

• BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES
• THE SOMNAMBULIST
• NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
• LIPS LIKE SUGAR
• RESCUE
• RUST
• ANGELS & DEVILS
• BEDBUGS & BALLYHOO
• ZIMBO
• STARS ARE STARS
• SEVEN SEAS
• OCEAN RAIN
• THE CUTTER
• HOW FAR?
• THE KILLING MOON

The album will be released via BMG on 5 October 2018 in the following formats:

Limited double picture disc; available from the band’s online store only

Limited luminous double vinyl; available from HMV and independent shops only

Standard double heavyweight vinyl; cassette; CD; and all digital platforms

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