Japandroids Autumn UK Tour Starts This Week, Play London’s Heaven 26th October
They’ve been working hard touring the world since the start of May and finally Vancouver duo Japandroids will be hitting the UK at the end of this week. To begin, the band will bring their incendiary live show to London’s Heaven on the 26th Oct, before calling at Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham then onto Pitchfork Music Festival Paris ending up powering their way through the States again till the end of December. A review of their last NYC show by the NY Times said, “Of recent two-member bands — from the White Stripes to the Black Keys to No Age and more — Japandroids have by far the most exuberant, affirming live show.” See details of their UK/EU tour dates below, full list is here.
See exactly why audiences all over the globe love Japandroids’ live show through this Pitchfork Music Festival clip of ‘Fire’s Highway’:
Watch Japandroids’ first music video exclusively at Pitchfork x Youtube for their single ‘The House That Heaven Built’. The video finds director Jim Larson traveling with the band on their last tour, filming at sold out shows in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, NYC, Brooklyn, DC and their life on the road in between:
Japandroids released their long awaited follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2009 debut ‘Post-Nothing’, ‘Celebration Rock’, over summer in the UK. The album was produced by Jesse Gander and Japandroids and has been called “one of the year’s most thrilling rock records” by Rolling Stone. The critics across the globe have unanimously agreed with that, as evidenced below by glowing reviews on Drowned in Sound and The Quietus. The album was shortlisted for the prestigious Polaris Prize in Canada and is bound to appear in many albums of the year lists soon.
JAPANDROIDS UK/EU TOUR DATES:
10/26 — London, UK — Heaven
10/27 — Manchester, UK — Sound Control
10/29 — Sheffield, UK — The Harley
10/30 — Birmingham, UK — Hare & Hounds
11/1 — Paris, France — Pitchfork Music Festival
Press praise for ‘Celebration Rock’:
“I think it’s the best rock record I’ve heard this year.” NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
“a rock record for the ages” Pitchfork ‘Best New Music’ (8.8)
“Every track’s an anthem, every second precious, on this breathless new album.” BBC Music
“Belligerent, loud but surprisingly catchy” Uncut
“These two know how hard they’ve worked to buy themselves some time, and how expensive and precious time can get, the darkness of maturity creeping closer but never quite arriving. This is not the sound of settling.” – Spin (9/10)
“This is REAL party rock, and like the best nights out, it leaves you sweaty and exhausted and ready to do it all over again” The Line Of Best Fit
“The sound of fireworks begins and ends the album; in between more pyrotechnics come courtesy of the guitarist Brian King’s rapid-fire riffs and the drummer David Prowse’s pummeling gallop.” The New York Times
“Big on anthems, euphoria and fistpumping rock’n’roll thrills” The Fly
“Japandroids simultaneously epitomise and critique the act of being in a wicked awesome cult rock band.” Drowned in Sound
“Imagine a different Eighties: The Replacements made Born in the USA, Hüsker Dü were Hulk Hogan’s entrance music, and indie rock was the keggercrushing choice of Top Gun America.” Rolling Stone, 4 Stars
“Japandroids never intended to become the world’s best rock band, but with this album they might have just shoved compatriots Fucked Up off of that particular throne ” Loud & Quiet
“it’s an album about need and immediacy and getting shit off your chest. There’s no holding it back.” Stereogum’s ‘Album of the Week’
“Celebration Rock encapsulates the kind of affirmative, collective experiences that define an entire adolescence.” The Quietus
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