Yorkshire’s own dance-punk quartet Working Men’s Club, have announced their largest UK and Ireland tour to date, off the back of their soon-to-be-released sophomore LP Fear Fear. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday (July 8th) at 9am, here. While the band are yet to announce support for the shows, the 9 dates will see the band hit some of their largest headline venues yet, London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, and the Manchester Academy will likely be highlight shows.
Pleased to announce that we are going to be playing some shows in the UK and Ireland in November, tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am from https://t.co/OgRw68FCzu
Glasgow, Newcastle, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Dublin, Manchester, Cambridge and London, we’ll see you soon X pic.twitter.com/sIgREmZ8Q9
— Working Mens Club (@work1ngmensclub) July 5, 2022
To celebrate the announcement, the group have also decided to release an Erol Alkan fronted reworking of one of their recent singles “Ploys”. You can hear the remix below. 2022 has been an eventful year for the band so far, 2 other singles have been released – “Circumference” and “Widow” are both also great tracks – they’ve bagged themselves a slot opening for Primal Scream in Halifax on Friday, and are also set to appear at a handful of instore gigs around all of the festivals already planned. You can find more information on the instore gigs here. This year could prove to be the one that finally confirms the band to be everything they think they are. COVID-19 obviously scuppered their plans after the 2020 release date meant that a tour couldn’t happen until well over a year later.
When asked of the new album by NME, frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant had this to say, “The first album was mostly a personal documentation lyrically, this is a blur between personal and a third-person perspective of what was going on.” Adding, “I like the contrast of it being happy, uplifting music and really dark lyrics. It’s not a minimal record, certainly compared to the first one. That’s because there’s been a lot more going on that needed to be said.”
As mentioned before, the band are set to release their new LP Fear Fear next Friday, and you can look into pre-ordering it here. So far, the singles have pointed even more towards synthpop than they were before. “Ploys” in particular almost sounds like an only Wham! song, this may come as a surprise to fans after their particularly short EP X was released last year. X took the band in a more abstract direction musically, using more odd and interesting ideas and motifs that were only really hinted at in their debut.
