Photo Credit: Tom Pullen
Enter Shikari have announced their longest UK tour to date, which sees them perform across the whole of the UK including London’s iconic Brixton Academy.
“Our most recent UK tours have been of the “eight or nine shows in arenas / big sheds” variety, so we consciously wanted to switch it up a bit going into 2019,” comments Rou Reynolds. “Enter Shikari have always kept dipping back into more intimate venues over the years, no matter how big our headline shows have become. That’s where we cut our teeth. The heat-sweat-and-visceral-human-connection of smaller gigs is every bit the equal of the impressive-scale-and-expensive-production of arena shows. We’ve never seen the latter as an evolution away from the former. They exist on opposite sides of the same coin for us.
It’s also no secret that austerity and the looming potential disaster of Brexit have seen people having to be a lot more careful with how they spend their money. With things being what they are right now, it doesn’t seem fair for only those who can afford the travel to a major city for a night out (plus the inevitable other costs that go along with it) to be able to see a show. Playing 28 dates across the UK is our way of taking what we do back to as many people as possible, in the most intimate and direct way.”
Dates for the Stop The Clocks UK tour are as follows:
December
Sat 1st – LINCOLN – Engine Shed
Sun 2nd – KEELE – SU
Mon 3rd – HULL – The Welly
Tue 4th – CARDIFF – Tramshed
Thu 6th – FROME – Cheese & Grain
Fri 7th – EXETER – Lemongrove
Sat 8th – PLYMOUTH – SU
Sun 9th – PORTSMOUTH – Pyramids
January
Thu 10th – SHEFFIELD – O2 Academy
Fri 11th – NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
Sat 12th – LONDON – O2 Brixton Academy
Sun 13th – LEICESTER – O2 Academy
Tue 15th – LLANDUDNO – Cymru
Wed 16th – LIVERPOOL – O2 Academy
Fri 18th – BRISTOL – O2 Academy
Sat 19th – SOUTHEND – Cliffs Pavilion
Sun 20th – NORWICH – UEA
Wed 23rd – GLASGOW – Barrowland
Thu 24th – ABERDEEN – Beach Ballroom
Fri 25th – INVERNESS – Ironworks
Sat 26th – PRESTON – Guildhall
Mon 28th – NORTHAMPTON – Roadmender
Tue 29th – SOUTHAMPTON – Guildhall
Wed 30th – CAMBRIDGE – Corn Exchange
February
Fri 1st – BIRMINGHAM – O2 Academy
Sat 2nd – LEEDS – O2 Academy
Sun 3rd – MANCHESTER – Academy
Mon 4th – NEWCASTLE – O2 Academy
Tickets for the tour are on sale HERE.
