After playing alongside Arctic Monkeys, US band The Orwells have announced some UK stops in their European tour.
Appearing at the Reading and Leeds festival this year, US born band The Orwells have announced their plans to tour the UK this November which will take them from London to Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow and Manchester.
The band, fronted by Mario Cuomo and Matt O’Keefe released their debut album in 2012 with Cuomo on vocals, Keefe on guitar and joined by Dominic Corso, Cuomo’s cousin and twins Grant and Henry Brinner. The five met in high school and were noticed by a blogger from Aquarium Drunkard. Having been named the ‘most criminally overlooked artists of 2012’ by MTV the young men graduated from high school early to pursue their music career.
In the UK, The Orwells played on the ‘Later…with Jools Holland’ in November of 2013, and then announced that they would tour alongside Arctic Monkeys at nine of their American shows in January and February 2014.
The band had gained some press recently after dubbing Arctic Monkeys as ‘hip Backstreet Boys’, claiming that the Reading and Leeds headliners were synchronising their lyrics without playing live during their US tour. Alex Turner, the Arctic Monkeys frontman, replied by stating “[The Orwells] should have been out trying to get laid rather than watching us every night” and denies any knowledge of synchronising or dubbing being used during their set list in the US.
The Orwells released their new album ‘Disgraceland’ on June 2nd and will begin the UK leg of their European tour on the 20th of November at the London Ballroom. Tickets can be bought from the bands homepage here.
Tour Dates
20th – London, Ballroom
21st -Bristol, Fleece
22nd – Sheffield, Leadmill
23rd – Glasgow, Stereo
24th – Manchester, Academy.
