aaamusic | On 14, May 2011

ENTER SHIKARI

‘QUELLE SURPRISE’ SINGLE

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‘LIVE FROM PLANET EARTH’ CD + 2xDVD SET

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SPECIAL TINY LONDON SHOW

www.entershikari.com

On 19th May, just for the sheer hell of it, Enter Shikari release a brand new stand-alone single. This release does not herald the arrival of album #3, nor does it really coincide with any live dates. It was finished, and everyone was so excited by it, that the general consensus was that it was better placed in fans’ hands than gathering dust on a disc in the office for the waiting for the ‘right’ time to release it.

Entitled ‘Quelle Surprise’ and recorded in London with Dan Weller (who was also responsible for last year’s ‘Destabilise’ single), the track – if I may be so bold – once again forces Enter Shikari far ahead of their contemporaries in terms of experimentation and blurring the genre boundaries. While so many other artists huddle in the middle ground, following the herd and desperately clawing at stardom, Enter Shikari dig deeper and harder into the path less trodden… striving to forge a sound that is uniquely theirs. To push things even further, mixing duties were placed in the expert hands of mix legend Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica, Glassjaw, Biffy Clyro, Franz Ferdinand and many many more).

‘Quelle Surprise’ will be initially released as a digital only single on Monday 19th May, as part of an EP that will also include two remixes of ‘Destabilise’ (one by Rou under his ROUT production moniker, and one by new North London artists Creatures Of Love), plus a version of live favourite ‘Hectic’ recorded at the Enter Shikari Christmas Party show in Hertfordshire back in December. A limited edition, 2×7″ (one red vinyl, one white vinyl) pack of the EP will be released on Monday 11th July.

ALSO released on Monday 11th July is the long-awaited live document ‘Live From Planet Earth’:

‘Live From Planet Earth’ is a CD + 2xDVD release consisting of:

CD – ‘Live at Hatfield. Christmas 2010’

DVD 1 – ‘Live At Hatfield. Christmas 2010’ + ‘Live At Camden Underworld. August 2010’.

DVD 2 – ‘Fizzy Water & Spikey Blankets (A Weekend In Russia. May 2010)’ + ‘Live At Hammersmith. February 2010’ + ‘Live At Summersonic, Tokyo. August 2009’.

This set constitutes Volume 3 of the band’s ongoing ‘Bootleg Series’ of releases, although ‘bootleg’ is perhaps doing it a bit of a disservice, as all shows were filmed professionally on multiple cameras and recorded / mixed by people who know what they’re doing in that area.

The DVD footage touches the furthest opposing edges of the Enter Shikari live experience… from the “packed to the rafters with sweat dripping off the walls and stagedivers kicking the camera” of the band’s ‘secret’ Camden show in summer 2010, to the “retina-frying lightshow and gut-churning sub bass” of their biggest headline show to date at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in February of the same year, taking in a 20,000 capacity indoor festival show in Japan along the way.

The ‘standard’ edition of the release will be available from all good stores, online retailers etc.

However…A *very* limited edition box-set edition of the release will be made available to pre-order only from the band’s own webstore. Alongside the standard version of the ‘Live From Planet Earth’ set, this box will also contain :

DVD 3 – which compiles archive footage recorded by the band, crew, family & friends next to professionally shot footage from all over the world. Some of this footage dates back as far as 2005 (!!) and includes songs long lost into the mists of time.

‘Images From Planet Earth’ – a 60 page photo scrapbook of shots taken around the world. Backstage, onstage, in the van, drunk, asleep.. no corner of the ‘live on the road’ experience has been left untouched. PLUS an Enter Shikari laminate that will, over time, occasionally allow special discounts / surprises when presented at the merch desk at shows (we’re still figuring out how this will work practically. We’re getting there, but aren’t 100% on top of it yet).

Pre-orders for both the standard edition (from the likes of Play.com / Amazon / HMV.co.uk etc) and the limited edition box set (only from www.entershikari.com/store) start on Monday 16th May.

The ‘Live At Hatfield’ audio will also be available as a digital download from all the usual download retailers.

We are pleased to announce a one-off *very* intimate show at Camden Dingwalls on Wednesday 15th June! Tickets are available from MIDDAY on Saturday 14th May, ONLY from www.entershikari.com