Six-piece indie band British Sea Power has announced a Summer of UK dates.
The tour will feature tracks from their most-recent ninth album, Sea of Brass, released in October 2015 and famed songs from their wide discography since their 2003 debut album The Decline of British Sea Power.
British Sea Power’s website offers some insight and praise for the band spanning well-over a decade:
A recent poll of BBC 6Music listeners – on the most important hundred tracks of the station’s lifetime – placed the British Sea Power track Remember Me at number nine, just above Radiohead, just below Johnny Cash. It’s a placing that indicates both the band’s longevity and the deeply dedicated nature of their audience.
BSP praise continues:
“Truly extraordinary… In place of voiceover was an exquisite soundtrack from British Sea Power – a band who were soaringly simpatico with the daydream drifts of what we were seeing.” Caitlin Moran, The Times
Their tour begins in mid-June:
15/6 – Trades Club – Hebden Bridge
16/6 – Brickyard – Carlisle
17/6 – Sugarmill – Stoke
18/6 – Fibbers – York
22/6 – Forum – Tunbridge Wells
23/6 – Old Fire Station – Bournemouth
24/6 – Phoenix – Exeter
25/6 – Guildhall – Gloucester
14-17/7 – Latitude Festival – Henham Park
More BSP website praise includes some famous industry and cultural names:
BSP have enjoyed a diverse array of cultural endorsement. David Bowie, Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead, Bill Oddie, the National Maritime Museum, Bill Bailey, Jeremy Vine, Julian Cope, Stella Vine, Flaming Lips, Caitlin Moran, Keith Allen, Peter Capaldi, Andrew Weatherall, Grace Dent and Brian Cox have all run up the BSP colours at one time or another.
Watch ‘Monsters of Sunderland’ from their sixth album, Machineries of Joy: