HURTS RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘BLIND’ ON 12THMAY

ANNOUNCE OCTOBER & NOVEMBER

UK AND EUROPEAN TOUR. NEW ALBUM ‘EXILE’ OUT NOW

Hurts have announced they will release ‘Blind’, the second single from their new album ‘Exile’, on 12^th May through Major Label and have announced a UK and European tour in October and November, which will be the bands biggest tour to date.

Second album, ‘Exile’, was released last week and has already peaked in the top 10 in 30 countries with a #5 midweek and a #9 chart position in the UK album chart.

‘Blind’ is the follow-up to ‘Miracle’, the band’s first single from their new album, which received strong support from the likes of Huw Stephens and Zane Lowe at Radio 1 and the band performed the single on both the Jonathan Ross show and Graham Norton’s Comic Relief show. New single ‘Blind’ is an epic and anthemic track that builds into a huge chorus and is sure to become a live favourite.

‘Exile’ follows the band’s debut album ‘Happiness’, which entered the UK album charts at #4 with over 25,000 sales making Hurts the fastest selling new band of 2010 in the UK. They have now reached over 2,000,000 sales worldwide earning 14 top 10 iTunes positions including #1s in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Luxembourg. It was officially certified Gold in the UK and Austria, 2 x Platinum in Germany and Finland and Platinum in Poland, Switzerland, and Russia, with the band selling over 250,000 tickets on tour.

Hurts have just announced a UK and European tour in October and November this year. This will be the bands biggest ever tour with 19 dates in total, and more dates still to be announced, commencing on 25^th October at Manchester Apollo and 26^th October at London’s Troxy. UK tickets go on pre-sale to fans at 9am today with the presale for European shows commencing at 9am tomorrow (except Tallinn where the presale is 9am on 2^nd April). UK and European dates go on general sale at 9am on Friday, with the exception of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, which go on general sale at 9am on Monday 25^th March and Tallinn on Wednesday 3^rd April. Full tour dates are as follows:

March

Wed 20^th Warsaw Palladium SOLD OUT

Sat 23^rd Zurich Kaufleuten SOLD OUT

Mon 25^th Milan Magazzini Generali SOLD OUT

Wed 27^th Vienna Arena SOLD OUT

Thurs 28^th Prague Lucerna Music Bar SOLD OUT

Sat 30^th Amsterdam Melkweg SOLD OUT

April

Mon 1^st Manchester Academy 2 SOLD OUT

Tues 2^nd Glasgow Garage SOLD OUT

NEW DATES:

October

Fri 25^th Manchester Apollo

Sat 26^th London Troxy

Mon 28^th Copenhagen Pumpehuset

Tue 29^th Oslo Rockefeller

Thu 31^st Malmo KB

November

Sun 3^rd Tallinn Saku Arena

Mon 4^th Riga Arena Riga

Wed 6^th Vilnius Siemens Arena

Thu 7^th Warsaw Torwar

Fri 8^th Prague Incheba Arena

Sun 10^th Berlin Velodrom

Mon 11^th Munich Zenith

Wed 13^th Dusseldorf MEH

Thu 14^th Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle

Fri 15^th Hamburg Sporthalle

Mon 18^th Berne Festhalle

Wed 20^th Brussels AB

Thu 21^st Utrecht Vrendenburg

Fri 22^nd Luxembourg Rockhal

“Exile will help them conquer yet more parts of the globe.” NME

“Their superb second album looks set to cement their megastar status.” Shortlist

“There’s something delirious and monumental about Hurts.” Q

“In an era when oversharing is the order of the day in pop and beyond, Hurts’ dignified understatement is more compelling than ever.”Notion

“On close personal terms with magnificence.”Independent on Sunday