Brighton 5 piece Fickle Friends have announced a 28 date UK headline tour off the back of their shimering single ‘Say No More’.
Already a favourite at the band’s live shows, the track is a feel-good anthem combining 80s-flavoured synths and a glorious fresh indie-pop sound. The tour will also give fans an opportunity to hear new music from their forthcoming debut album.
The band have been cutting their teeth the old fashioned way, with 2 years of solid touring, including sets at major festivals such as Bestival, BBC R1 Big Weekend and Secret Garden Party, not to mention a sold-out show at Dingwalls in London in November. All the long drives and late nights have paid off, forging Fickle Friends into a slick polished monster of a live band. This hard work also helped catch the attention of Polydor Records, who signed the band in January 2016.
Away from the stage the band has been whipping up a frenzy in the blogosphere and were the most written about unsigned artist of 2014 according to accumlator Hype Machine, and have even picked up over 5 million plays on Spotify across their debut singles – with ‘Say No More’ even making it onto the BBC Radio 1 Introducing Playlist.
Fickle Friends are Natti Shiner, Sam Morris, Jack Harry, Christopher Hall and Jack Wilson; the band’s debut album is penciled in for late 2016.
UK TOUR DATES
02-Feb-16 Guilford Boileroom
03-Feb-16 Cardiff Moon Club
04-Feb-16 Bournemouth 60 MP
06-Feb-16 Bedford Esquires
07-Feb-16 Leicester Scholar
08-Feb-16 Bristol Louisiana
09-Feb-16 Chester Live Rooms
11-Feb-16 Stourbridge River Room
16-Feb-16 Liverpool Studio 2
17-Feb-16 Reading Oakford Social
19-Feb-16 Southampton Joiners
20-Feb-16 Totnes Devon Arts Centre
21-Feb-16 Colchester Arts Centre
23-Feb-16 Norwich Waterfront
24-Feb-16 Nottingham Bodega
25-Feb-16 Manchester Sound Control
26-Feb-16 Sheffield Lead Mill
28-Feb-16 Newcastle Think Tank
29-Feb-16 Edinburgh Electric Circus
01-Mar-16 Aberdeen Tunnels
03-Mar-16 Glasgow King Tuts
04-Mar-16 Stockton Kubar
05-Mar-16 Lincoln Engine Shed
07-Mar-16 Hull Fruit
08-Mar-16 Leeds Oporto
09-Mar-16 Birmingham Rainbow
11-Mar-16 Cardiff Moon Club
12-Mar-16 Brighton Patterns