Enter Shikari UK tour dates and new mini-album news

October 8, 2007, 10:54 AM

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On Tuesday 6th November, Enter Shikari will headline a sold out show at London’s BrixtonAcademy. Those of you who’ve failed to keep previous Enter Shikari press releases for the past 12 months may need your memories refreshing, so let us point out that this is exactly one year to the day since playing their milestone Astoria show in 2006 as the second only unsigned band to sell out the venue.
And what a 12 months it’s been.
When released in March, Enter Shikari’s debut album ‘Take To The Skies’ went in at number 4 in the official UK chart, and has now reached certified ‘Gold’ status. (don’t y’know that’s 100,000 copies out the door…)
On top of making space for shiny gold discs, the band have also had to clear their shelves for two Kerrang! awards - ‘Best Live Band’ and ‘Spirit Of Independence’ and a NME award – the prestigious ‘John Peel Award For Musical Innovation’.
Then there was the return to Download… this year headlining to a packed 10,000 capacity tent, with a crowd spilling 10 rows deep out the sides. Tentbursting, BBC2 filmed performances at T In The Park, Reading and Leeds festivals followed along with three European tours and countless European festivals. Enter Shikari also crammed in four totally sold out UK tours, three trips to the USA and a couple of visits to Japan, which included blowing away 15,000 kids at Summersonic in Tokyo and a run-in with the Japanese police over a broken karaoke screen.

Add to that over 2.5million Youtube viewings of the ‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’ video (which cost three grand to make. including beer and sandwiches) 160K myspace friends and a myspace play count that has smashed the 7 million barrier and you have one of the most important bands to come out of the UK this side of the millennium.
Amidst all that, the band found time to write and record a bunch of B-sides for various singles. Had these tracks been written and recorded in time, they almost certainly would have found their way onto the album. But life doesn’t work like that. Of course, these tracks are all pretty much already out there in the universe, but there’s still them folks who’s lives have yet to be enriched by ‘em… so for them, there’s this.


Track listing as follow:

The Feast (demo) - Winner / Plan B B-side
Kickin' Back On The Surface Of Your Cheek - 'Anything...' B-side
Keep It On Ice - 'Anything...' B-side
Adieu(Routron 500 Remix) - NEW
Sorry You're Not A Winner (Zane Low BBC Session)
Mothership (demo) - debut download only single
Acid Nation - Johnny Sniper B-side
Enter Shikari (demo)- debut download only single

AUTUMN TOUR DATES

OCTOBER

SUNDAY 21 – LEEDS UNI * SOLD OUT *
MONDAY 22 – MANCHESTER APOLLO * SOLD OUT *
TUESDAY 23 – MACHESTER APOLLO * EXTRA DATE *
THURSDAY 25 – NEWCASTLEACADEMY * SOLD OUT *
FRIDAY 26 – GLASGOW BARROWLANDS * SOLD OUT *
SUNDAY 28 – WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC * SOLD OUT *
MONDAY 29 – WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC * EXTRA DATE *
WEDNESDAY 31 - CARDIFF UNI
NOVEMBER

THURSDAY 01 – SOUTHAMPTON GUILDHALL *SOLD OUT *
FRIDAY 02 – BRIGHTON DOME
SATURDAY 03 – PLYMOUTH PAVILLIONS
MONDAY 05 – NORWICH UEA * SOLD OUT *
TUESDAY 06 – LONDONBRIXTONACADEMY *SOLD OUT *
WEDNESDAY 07 – LONDON – ELECTRIC BALLROOM

www.entershikari.com

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