Southampton rockers Creeper have been forced to reschedule their planned UK tour for a third time due to ongoing complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The goth punk outfit’s Sex, Death & The Infinite Void tour will now take place in December 2021, with existing ticket purchases remaining valid for the six new dates.
due to the ongoing government restrictions the SEX, DEATH & THE INFINITE VOID tour has been rescheduled for december 2021. all tickets remain valid for these new dates. the tour is close to selling out, the final tickets are available at https://t.co/8dCLwhIXPa pic.twitter.com/LQ27yZNwqg
— C R E E P E R (@creepercultuk) February 26, 2021
Creeper endured a tumultuous 2020; with the release of LP Sex, Death & the Infinite Void delayed by two months from May to July, and drummer Dan Bratton departing the band without explanation in September. The glowing reviews for their second concept album would have provided some crumbs of comfort to the Hampshire five-piece, though.
Kerrang called the record a “glimmer of light amid the gloom of 2020” and hailed it as a “carnival of glorious sound” with a wide range of sonic influences. The hard rock journal’s David McLaughlin identified “reminders of the glammed-up rush of Roxy Music and David Bowie, or the art school-esque smarts of Suede, Pulp, Mansun and The Divine Comedy” as well as “clenched-fist Jim Steinman-era Meat Loaf-like pomp.” and “hints of The Bangles, Blur, Supergrass, Queen, Prince, The Protomen… the list goes on, frankly.” Elsewhere DIY labelled it Creeper’s “most astonishing and liberating move yet“; while NME dished out a four-star review to an “ambitious and nuanced album” and a “gamble that paid off“.
Sex, Death & the Infinite Void – which reached number #5 in the Official UK Albums Chart – spawned five singles last year. The most recent of the set was Be My End, a catchy pop-punk number permeated by a wonderfully overblown sense of melodrama: “Scorch my sun. Let my bones, my body decay/ When the sun comes we vanish like vampires…/Yeah this could be the end/ But I don’t want to die tonight at the hand of anybody else but you.”
Creeper have yet to announce whether they will rearrange their planned four-night stint at the Joiners Arms in their native Southampton in April, or other shows originally pencilled in for Leeds (The Key Club) and Kingston (Pryzm) in the same month. The band will be waiting anxiously for an update on the status of Download Festival, where they had originally been due to perform on the weekend of 4th-6th June. These dates now fall before the UK Government’s proposed cut-off for the removal of social distancing rules on June 22nd.
Creeper’s other British festival commitment this summer – the 2000 Trees Festival in Gloucestershire from 7-11th July – is due to go ahead as scheduled. In a press release last week, the event organisers announced they were now “FULL. STEAM. AHEAD for this July.”
When the band are finally able to take Sex, Death & The Infinite Void on the road for its belated official tour, they will be supported by London nu-metal duo Wargasm; emo-inspired Leeds collective Static Dress; and Cardiff post-hardcore trio Holding Absence, who are due to release their own second album The Greatest Mistake Of My Life in April.
The rearranged dates for Creeper’s 2021 Sex, Death & The Infinite Void tour are as follows:
15/12/21 – 02 Forum Kentish Town – London
16/12 – Concorde 2 – Brighton
17/12 – 02 Institute – Birmingham
19/12 – The Garage – Glasgow
20/12 – 02 Ritz – Manchester
21/12 – Leeds Beckett University Student Union – Leeds
