General Fiasco announce new album ‘Unfaithfully Yours’ + May UK tour
aaamusic | On 03, Apr 2012
The band’s debut album ‘Buildings’ released on Infectious Music in 2010 saw the N.Irish band play festivals and dates around the world including Japan, New Zealand, USA, Reading & Leeds, Glastonbury, Oxegen and T-In the Park.
They toured relentlessly for months, picking up supports with the Enemy, Kids in Glass Houses, One Night Only and Fighting with Wire amongst others and found themselves with a Kerrang! Magazine best new comer nomination too.
The band have been writing and recording for most of 2011, but came back with an EP ‘Waves’ from which ‘The Age You Start Losing Friends’ won ‘Best Song’ at the NI Music Awards held as part of the prestigious Belfast Music Week which saw the MTV awards come to town. ‘The Age You Start Losing Friends’ also picked up another Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1 and the following EP ‘Don’t You Ever’ has already picked up plays on BBC Radio 1 and beyond including several local and college radio stations in the USA.
The band’s 2nd album, ’Unfaithfully Yours’ is due for release in June 2012 on their new home Dirty Hit.
May 2012 UK Tour dates as follows:
8th – PJ Molloy’s, Dunfermline
9th – Ironworks, Inverness
10th – Doghouse, Dundee
12th – ‘Pitch Invasion Music Festival’, Hartlepool
15th – Sound Control, Manchester
16th – the Duchess, York
17th – Roadmender, Northampton
18th – Cockpit 3, Leeds
23rd – Little Civic, Wolverhampton
24th – Hippodrome ‘New Slang’, Kingston
25th – Koko ‘Club NME’, London
27th – Southampton, Talking Heads
28th – Boileroom, Guildford
29th – Jericho Tavern, Oxford
30th – Notting Hill Arts Club ‘Death Disco’, London
31st – Hydrant, Brighton
