Static Dress have announced details of a UK and European tour to take place later this year – see all the details below.
The Leeds post-hardcore band and recent NME Cover stars released their second studio album ‘Injury Episode’ on Friday (May 29), which NME have described as a “stylistic mix of brutal aggression, melody and tender emotion” inspired by My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon and Taking Back Sunday.
Now, they have announced their first full UK and European headline tour in four years, which will see them play in the biggest headline venues of their career to date.
Following on from dates supporting Bring Me The Horizon and Motionless In White, their own tour will begin in Paris’ La Maroquinerie on October 20, with dates to follow in Cologne, Hamburg, Utrecht and Antwerp.
From there, they play at Glasgow’s The Garage on October 28, followed by shows in Manchester and London, with the final date coming at Birmingham’s O2 Academy 2 on November 1.
There is an O2 customer pre-sale at 10am local time on Wednesday (June 3) and an artist pre-sale at the same time on Thursday (June 4). General sale begins at 10am on Friday (June 5) and you will be able to find yours here.
New York band Soul Blind and Massachusetts metacore group Holder are joining them on all UK and European dates, with Leeds band Love Rarely also on the bill for the UK shows.
Static Dress will play:
OCTOBER
20 – La Maroquinerie – Paris, FR
21 – Club Volta – Cologne, DE
23 – Bahnof Pauli – Hamburg, DE
24 – Ekko – Utrecht, NL
26 – Kavka Oudaan – Antwerp, BE
28 – The Garage – Glasgow, UK
29 – Academy 2 – Manchester, UK
30 – Electric Ballroom – London, UK
NOVEMBER
1 – O2 Academy 2 – Birmingham, UK
NME awarded ‘Injury Episode’ four stars, noting: “This is a deliberately more intense, more complex record than ‘Rogue Carpet Disaster’, one that feels like Static Dress are trying to connect more deeply with whoever’s listening. It’s a fearless approach to guitar music that’s more interested in storytelling than mass appeal.”
Alongside their appearance on The Cover last month, the group have also curated a playlist titled ‘Real Emo (Modern Day Edition)’, featuring songs by the likes of Blood Orange, High Vis, Mk.gee, Dream Fatigue, Jim Legxacy, and Puma Blue, among others. Listen to the full playlist here.
Frontman Olli Appleyard told NME in the feature why he feels the need to control all of the band’s output. “I don’t want to be walked over,” he explained. “We’ve had people in the industry actively try to ruin us before, because they don’t like that we didn’t let them in.”
