We Are Scientists have announced a run of UK tour dates, set to kick off later this year. Find all dates and ticket details below.
Announced today (May 24), the upcoming live shows will see the New York duo embark on eight shows across the country in celebration of their sophomore album ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’.
Originally released back in 2008, the album contained hits including ‘After Hours’, ‘Chick Lit’ and ‘Impatience’, and will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, both Keith Murray and Chris Cane will be playing the LP in full at a number of intimate venues in the UK.
The dates will all take place across November, and open with a secret show in London on the 17th. The venue for the gig has not been officially announced.
From there, the shows continued two days later with a slot at the Engine Rooms in Southampton (19), followed by stops in Bristol and Manchester on November 20 and 21 respectively.
A gig at the historic Leadmill venue in Sheffield is going to be held afterwards, as will one in Leeds and one in Newcastle. The tour concludes with a final show at the Oran Mor in Glasgow on November 26.
Tickets go on sale next Friday (May 31) at 10am BST. Visit here to buy tickets and find a full list of dates below.
We Are Scientists’ ‘Brain Thrust Mastery’ anniversary tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
17 – London (secret show)
19 – Southampton @ Engine Rooms
20 – Bristol @ Thekla
21 – Manchester @ Academy 2
22 – Sheffield @ The Leadmill
23 – Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club
25 – Newcastle @ Northumbria Uni SU
26 – Glasgow @ Oran Mor
“We’re not the sort of guys who care much about celebrating our birthdays or things like that, but we will do anything for a party,” said Keith Murray of the announcement.
“If you tell us that our highest-charting record with some of our biggest singles is being re-released, we’re gonna use that as an excuse to throw a rager in, say, Sheffield. You tell us this is going to be a deluxe reissue thing? In that case, we’re going to need to have no fewer than eight parties, thanks.”
The upcoming tour dates coincide with a deluxe LP reissue of the band’s second album – more details of which are soon to be revealed.
At the start of the year, We Are Scientists shared their new album ‘Lobes’. It marked the band’s eighth studio album and the follow-up to last year’s ‘Huffy’.
The first single from the album, ‘Operation Error’, was released back in September, and they followed it up with ‘Settled Accounts’ in January– a song which they described as their “funkiest tune yet”.