Enter Shikari have announced a string of tiny shows to celebrate the surprise release of their new album ‘Lose Your Self’.
The band’s eighth album dropped with no warning today (April 10), following an intimate show at Satan’s Hollow in Manchester last night (April 9) to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their first show in the city.
That gig will be followed up with three outstore shows later this month. The first will take place at Liverpool’s The Cavern on April 23, after which the band will head to Kingston’s Fighting Cocks on April 24 and London’s Signature Brew on April 25.
Tickets for these shows go on sale on Wednesday, April 15 – follow this link for details on timings for each show and find details below.
Enter Shikari’s intimate outstore album launch shows are:
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23 – Liverpool, The Cavern (Jacaranda outstore)
24 – Kingston, The Fighting Cocks (Banquet outstore)
25 – London, Signature Brew (Jacaranda outstore)
Frontman Rou Reynolds has spoken to NME about sparking unity at a time when people can feel more isolated than ever.
“One of the main things that produces nihilism is that feeling of, ‘Oh I’m just one person, what can I do?’ This album at its core is a criticism of hyper-individualism,” he explained. “It goes against the idea that we’re divided from each other and disconnected from the natural world. That is the core tenet of capitalism, and it’s becoming more and more dangerous.
“It’s starting to be normalised and it feels so concrete because it’s all we’ve known for decades. It’s like we all have completely forgotten our power as a collective… but hat’s how the system protects itself. It forces individualism down our throats and backs us all into a corner until we’re like, ‘This is just how it is and how it’ll always be’.”
On the reasoning for dropping the album with no pronouncement, he said: “There’s no lead-up. There are no singles. There’s no drip-feeding people information about the albums. Instead, it’s like, ‘Here it is. Absorb it.’ That excites me because it means that people will be listening to the album in full and taking it in. They won’t be skipping songs because they’re not the singles they’ve already heard. It makes it into one entity.”
“Plus, we got the Number One on the last record, so it means we don’t have to think so cynically about anything,” he added. “We can just put this out as we want it to be out.”
The St Albans rock band will kick off their new dates on November 3 at the Sporthalle in Hamburg, and the run of shows include further dates in Munich, Brussels, Tilburg and more throughout the month. It also includes their biggest ever German headline show, which will be held at Düsseldorf’s Mitsubishi Halle, and welcome 7,500 fans.
UK dates commence later in the month with a show at the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham on November 13. This is followed by gigs in Cardiff and Hull, as well as their first ever show in Glasgow and biggest venue to date in Manchester. The run ends with two back-to-back stops at London’s Alexandra Palace on November 20 and 21.
