aaamusic | On 10, Mar 2011

New Year, new start. Detroit Social Club are ripping up the rule book and going it alone after setting up their own label, Fuck Pop. Through this the band will release their brand new single, I Am Revolution, on Monday March 28th.

Brisling with raw sounding guitars and a drum sound that cracks like a North Sea thunderstorm, new single I Am Revolution is a return to the dirty rock and roll sound that made them their name. This is a no holds barred statement of intent from the uncompromising lords of the Tyne.

The band will also be embarking on a DIY tour of the UK. Kicking off in February, it will see them take in a massive 23 shows on what is to be their biggest tour to date. Sleeping on floors each night and hitting the road each day, the band are taking it back to basics playing at the small, sweaty rock clubs that originally fueled their love for life on the road.

Detroit Social Club dominated much of last year’s festival season; playing the main stage at the Isle of Wight festival, two shows at Glastonbury, V, T in the Park, Ibiza Rocks and Fuji Rocks, and coming 13th in NME’s poll of the best summer festival bands. They were also fortunate enough to support Oasis at their last ever show plus the likes of Primal Scream and Ian Brown.

The band released their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Existence’ in May last year with Q magazine calling it “stunning and a genuinely brilliant debut album’, and the Sun hailing DSC as a band with ‘the swagger and attitude to conquer all before them’.

Tour dates:

March

Wed 2nd                               Sound house                                      Leicester

Fri 4th                                    Jam                                                       Brighton

Sat 5th                   Water Rats                                           London

Mon 7th                 Louisiana                                             Bristol

Wed 9th                Bridgwater Sports                              Somerset

Fri 11th                  TBC                                                       Leeds

Sat 12th                Live Lounge                                        Durham

Thurs 17th                            Baileys Live                                         Grimsby

Fri 18th                  Live Lounge                                        Blackburn

Sat 19th                The Shipping Forecast      Liverpool

Thurs 24th                            Bodega                                 Nottingham

Fri 25th                  Rainbow                                               Birmingham

Sat 26th                Squareone                                          Crewe

April

Fri 1st                                    Ku Bar                                   Stockton

Sat 2nd                 Fat Cats                                Stoke

Fri 9th                                    Plugged Inn                                         Sunderland

Sat 9th                   Gullivers                                               Manchester

www.detroitsocialclub.net or www.myspace.com/detroitsocialclub