The Spook School – TOUR – Album Launch Gigs – Edinburgh (26 + 27 Oct) + London (29 Oct)
The Spook School
Edinburgh and London Shows Next Week!
26 Oct – Album launch day 1, Edinburgh, Banshee Labyrinth
27 Oct – Album launch day 2, Edinburgh, Banshee Labyrinth
29 Oct – Album launch, London, DIY Space (support from Joey Four and Wolf Girl
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/333178
First Headline Tour in November
6 Nov – Martha/Radiator Hospital, Glasgow, 13th Note
14 Nov – Belfast, Black Box, Ireland
15 Nov – Spirit Store, Dundalk, Ireland
20 Nov – Brighton, The Joker
22 Nov – London, George Tavern
26 Nov – Leeds, Wharf Chambers
27 Nov – Edinburgh, Citrus Club (with the Lovely Eggs)
28 Nov – Dundee, Buskers – Book Yer Ane Fest IX
4 Dec – Coventry, The Tin at The Coal Vaults
5 Dec – Nottingham, Chameleon
6 Dec – Glasgow, Nice and Sleazy
Watch video for “Binary”, directed by Nathan Griffin
Taken from new album Try To Be Hopeful – out now on Fortuna POP!
DIY-punk-pop quartet The Spook School are getting ready to hit the road to celebrate the release of their new album, Try To Be Hopeful, out now on Fortuna POP!. The band play two album launch shows at Edinburgh’s Banshee Labyrinth on the 26th and 27th of October, followed by an album launch at London’s new DIY Space For London venue on the 29th of October, before embarking on their first UK headline tour in November. The album is full of triumphant queer pop song, exploring gender and identity, blending together influences ranging from Buzzcocks, to T-Rex and the noisier end of C86.
Try To Be Hopeful follows The Spook School’s critically acclaimed debut album Dress Up (2013), which received plaudits from the Guardian (which featured them as a New Band of the Day), Uncut which called it “a rewarding, multi-layered debut” and Loud and Quiet which said, “this is music for the young and disillusioned, but identifiable to anyone who’s ever been frustrated by the grievances of identity and growing up.” The Spook School have since seen their music used on TV, having recorded the theme tune for BBC Three series “Badults” (Adam, Anna & Niall all have sidelines in the world of comedy), and have also toured the US, where they became the subject of a Rolling Stone documentary and met Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!.
Try To Be Hopeful is the sound of a band growing up, embracing their identities, and taking charge at the world. But amidst the fight for a place in society for everyone, there’s still time for love, friendship, and fun. With their bold, fizzy and electrifying anthems, The Spook School are the shot of optimism we’ve been hoping for.
“Edinburgh’s Spook School are a band who have to exist… the quartet’s bright indie-pop – sometimes breezily cheerful, sometimes dramatic, always steeped in the best traditions of their nation’s indie history – is addictive.” The List 4*s
“Emotionally literate and politically conscious… The Spook School deliver the goods with a good-humoured, no frills approach.” The New Internationalist 4*s
“The importance of Try To Be Hopeful today is undeniable.” Clash
“It sounds like such a simple formula: write catchy pop songs about things which are important to you, but the fact is The Spook School have nailed it better than pretty much anyone in recent memory.” Drowned in Sound
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