NASHVILLE |DT: JULY 2, 2009
FR: LIBBY COFFEY/BARI LIEBERMAN/JOHN OCHOA
‘COMMON DREADS’
DEBUTS AT #16 ON U.K. CHARTS
NOMINATED FOR TWO KERRANG! AWARDS
“BEST LIVE BAND” AND “BEST BRITISH BAND”
U.S. HEADLINING TOUR LAUNCHES
TODAY THURSDAY, JULY 2
IN NEW YORK CITY
AT GRAMERCY THEATER
READING, LEEDS AND SUMMERSONIC JAPAN FESTIVALS
ON TAP FOR AUGUST BEFORE RETURNING TO THE U.S. THE FALL
The buzz on U.K. favorites ENTER SHIKARI continues to flourish at home and across the Atlantic as the St. Albans, England-based quartet—who audaciously melds hardcore punk with pulse-pumping drum’n’bass and dark, gut-churning dubstep–debuts at #16 on the U.K. charts with COMMON DREADS. Recently released worldwide on June 16 and digitally in the United States via the band’s own imprint Ambush Reality in partnership with DGC/Interscope Records, COMMON DREADS–which was produced by Andy Gray (U2, Tori Amos, Korn, Gary Numan)–is the follow-up to their gold-certified debut Take to the Skies, which landed at #4 on the U.K. charts. See U.K. critical soundbites below.
In other exciting news, ENTER SHIKARI was recently nominated for two KERRANG! Awards for Best Live Band and Best British Band. The 2009 Awards—to be held in London August 3 and hosted by Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian—is presented by KERRANG!, the influential music weekly that celebrates hard/hardcore rock acts in the U.K. and beyond.
In support of COMMON DREADS, ENTER SHIKARI will kick off their first U.S. headlining tour July 2 at New York's Gramercy Theater and will later join metalcore band August Burns Red as a supporting act on a month-long tour across the nation, marking the longest-running U.S. trek for ENTER SHIKARI to date. Following their U.S. tour, ENTER SHIKARI will head east to Japan where they will play Summersonic Festival before making their way home where they’ll perform at two of the U.K.'s most celebrated festivals: Reading and Leeds. In between these dates, the band will also make a number of high-profile appearances at several major European festivals including a headlining performance at Germany's Mini Rock Festival, Rocko Del Schlako Festival in Germany, Azfeszt Festival in Hungary, Pukkelpop in Belgium and several others. Expect the group to return to the U.S. later in 2009.
Catch ENTER SHIKARI on tour in the following cities:
| Enter Shikari headlining U.S. tour: | |||
| Thu | 7/2 | New York, NY | Gramercy Theater |
| Fri | 7/3 | Poughkeepsie, NY | The Loft |
| Sun | 7/5 | Providence, RI | Club Hell |
| Mon | 7/6 | Albany, NY | Valentines |
| Tue | 7/7 | S. Hackensack, NJ | School of Rock |
| Wed | 7/8 | Allentown, PA | Crocodile Rock |
| Enter Shikari headlining U.S. tour with August Burns Red, Bless The Fall, I Wrestled A Bear Once: | |||
| Fri | 7/10 | Towson, MD | Recher Theatre |
| Sat | 7/11 | Philadelphia, PA | Starlight Ballroom |
| Sun | 7/12 | Buffalo, NY | The Town Ballroom |
| Mon | 7/13 | Akron, OH | Musica |
| Tue | 7/14 | Detroit, MI | Magic Stick |
| Wed | 7/15 | Chicago, IL | House of Blues |
| Thu | 7/16 | Madison, WI | The Loft |
| Sat | 7/18 | Omaha, NE | Sokol Auditorium |
| Tue | 7/21 | San Francisco, CA | Slim’s |
| Wed | 7/22 | Los Angeles, CA | Key Club |
| Thu | 7/23 | San Diego, CA | Soma |
| Fri | 7/24 | Pomona, CA | The Glass House |
| Sat | 7/25 | Pomona, CA | The Glass House |
| Sun | 7/26 | Scottsdale, AZ | Venue of Scottsdale |
| Mon | 7/27 | Albuquerque, NM | Sunshine Theater |
| Wed | 7/29 | Dallas, TX | The Max |
| Summersonic Festival Japan | |||
| Fri | 8/7 | Osaka, JAPAN | Summersonic |
| Sun | 8/9 | Tokyo, JAPAN | Summersonic |
| Headlining–Mini Rock Festival | |||
| Fri | 8/14 | Horb Am Neckar, Germany | Mini Rock Festival |
| Rocko Del Schlako Festival | |||
| Sat | 8/15 | Saarland, Germany | Rocko Del Schlako Fest |
| Azfeszt Festival | |||
| Wed | 8/19 | Nyírbátor, Hungary | Azfeszt Festival |
| Frequency Festival | |||
| Thur | 8/20 | St. Pölten, Austria | Frequency Festival |
| Trutnov Festival | |||
| Fri | 8/21 | Trutnov, Czech Republic | Trutnov Festival |
| Pukkelpop | |||
| Sat | 8/22 | Hasselt, Belgium | Pukkelpop |
| Lowlands Festival | |||
| Sun | 8/23 | Biddinghuizen, Netherlands | Lowlands Festival |
| Leeds Festival | |||
| Fri | 8/28 | Leeds, ENGLAND | Leeds Festival |
| Reading Festival | |||
| Sat | 8/29 | Reading, ENGLAND | Reading Festival |
Check out the massive response for ENTER SHIKARI’s COMMON DREADS from critics across the pond:
BBC
“Highlights are fabulously catchy first single ‘Juggernauts,’ swelling grower ‘Wall,’ teenage anthem ‘Hectic’ with its computer-game-esque melody and the unexpectedly twinkly and lovely ‘Gap InThe Fence.’ The album is packed with anthems too –‘The Jester’ is Blur's Parklife for the Noughties. And ‘No Sleep Tonight’ is a hardcore reply to Faithless' ‘Insomnia.”
FHM 4-out-of-5 star review:
“Hailing from the wilds of St. Albans, Enter Shikari brought their electronic hardcore to the masses with their hugely successful debut, Take To The Skies, and on number two they’ve stepped up their game. The songs are more than just Foo Fighters numbers run through a Moog keyboard. They stand alone as sing-along monsters that at times are genuinely angry. Best track: ‘Zzzonked’ is like a calculator at a riot.”
THE GUARDIAN:
ABSOLUTE PUNK:
“Everything about COMMON DREADS is bigger and more realized. “Antwerpen” is catchy whilst still scraping our knees with pissed-off “La La Las”; “Hectic” moves forward on the legs of Reynolds’ much-improved electronics. It’s a dance party for the end of the world. And f**k me for typing that, but COMMON DREADS reminds me why loud music succeeds so readily. It’s an avenue to let it all go, and COMMON DREADS is an outlet of mammoth proportions.”
KERRANG! Live review:
“Delivered a punchy, dynamic set weighted in favour of new material. The band’s excellent second album, due in June, nods towards the agro-merchants Gallows, The Prodigy and The King Blues and consequently new songs like ‘Step Up’ sound more muscular and menacing…”
MOJO:
“A portentous Star Wars-styled spoken intro about the evils of consumerism segues into big metal riffs on ‘Solidarity,’ Mike Skinnerish raps on ‘Juggernauts,’ then drum’n’bass breaks, euphoric rave keyboards, church choirs and anthemic choruses, all sung with a committed vocal ferocity by Roughton Reynolds. The end effect is like an ADD-compiled mixtape about the ills of globalization, and therefore possibly the true sound of the British suburbs, 2009.”
Q:
"The Hertfordshire quartet have responded by tackling our age's unifying causes: financial armageddon, civil liberties, er, Tesco's attempts to build a St Albans superstore. When everything gels, as on 'Juggernauts' or donk-heavy 'Zzzonked,' 'Common Dreads' kicks off like twitchy coppers policing a G20 protest."
NME:
“’COMMON DREADS’ is even more monstrous…In very basic terms, Enter Shikari have got better at what they do…Funeral For A Friend might offer a more cleanly anthemic take on the screamo idiom, Bullet For My Valentine a more fist-punchingly trad pop-metal formula but, for those who like their sonic nuptials to continue long after their bits have gone numb, ‘COMMON DREADS' offers an ugly sort of bliss."
Bio: http://www.msopr.com/?q=node/4674
Video for their first single “Juggernauts”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9055NLRl-6Y&feature=channel_page
For ENTER SHIKARI publicity contact MSO:
Libby Coffey
818-380-0400 x224
LCoffey@msopr.com
Bari Lieberman (tour press)
818-380-0400 x222
blieberman@msopr.com
John Ochoa
818-380-0400 x230
jochoa@msopr.com
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ENTER SHIKARI: ‘COMMON DREADS’ DEBUTS AT #16 ON U.K. CHARTS; NOMINATED FOR TWO KERRANG! AWARDS “BEST LIVE BAND” AND “BEST BRITISH BAND”; U.S. HEADLINING TOUR LAUNCHES TODAY THURSDAY, JULY 2 IN NEW YORK CITY AT GRAMERCY THEATER; READING, LEEDS AND SUMMERSONIC JAPAN FESTIVALS ON TAP FOR AUGUST BEFORE RETURNING TO THE U.S. THE FALL
