Pigeon Detectives announce new single and autumn tour

The Pigeon Detectives announce new Single ‘Lost’ (15^th August 2011, Dance To The Radio) and Autumn tour dates.

Fresh from another storming and sweaty UK and European tour (which included a Police escort to their show in Munich), The Pigeon Detectives announce the release of the second single ‘Lost’. Taken from their third album UP, GUARDS AND AT ‘EM! which was recorded over the period of two months in New York City under the watchful eyes of producer Justin Gerrish (who’s last major job was helping to mix Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’).

Already established as a firm live favourite, Lost lands ahead of the band’s appearance on the main stage at Reading and Leeds this August and at Northern Lights Festival in Scotland on July 30th. The accompanying video sees the boys doing what they do best – playing out the anthemic track in front of a highly energised audience.

The band head out on the road again this autumn.

Full list of dates below with tickets on sale Friday 8^th July at 9am

November

Sun 6^th – Newcastle, O₂ Academy

Mon 7^th – Hull, Tokyo

Tue 8^th – Preston, 53 Degrees

Thu 10^th – Manchester, Academy 2 

Fri 11^th – Sheffield, Leadmill

Sat 12^th – Lincoln, Tokyo

Sun 13^th – Leamington Spa, Assembly

Tue 15^th – Birmingham, O₂ Academy2

Thu 17^th – London, Electric Ballroom

Sat 19^th – Brighton, Concorde

Sun 20^th – Southampton, Uni

Mon 21^st – Bristol, Fleece

Thu 24^th – Leeds, O₂ Academy

Fri 25^th – Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms

Sat 26^th – Dundee, Fat Sams

Gifts from Enola - European tour 2011

After a first acclaimed trip in Europe last year, Gifts from Enola will be back on the old continent to play songs from its S/t album... and new unreleased tracks.

10.6.11- Derby, UK @ The Old Bell
11.6.11- Liverpool, UK @ Caledonia
12.6.11- Manchester, UK @ The Ruby Lounge
13.6.11- Sheffield, UK @ TBA
14.6.11- Leeds, UK @ The Bell
15.6.11- Oberhausen, Germany @ Drucklufthaus
17.6.11- Kiel, Germany @ Kiel Explode Fest
18.6.11- Copenhagen, Denmark @ Hust I Magstraede
20.6.11- Hamburg, Germany @ Astra Strube
21.6.11- Dresden, Germany @ AZ Conni
22.6.11- Prague, Czech Republic @ 007
24.6.11- Budapest, Hungary @ Trafik
25.6.11- Cluj, Romania @ Gambrinus Live Stage
26.6.11- Bucharest, Romania @ Control Club
27.6.11- Novi Sad, Serbia @ CK13
28.6.11- Vienna, Austria @ Rhiz

Gifts From Enola has created an album that finally and perfectly captures the intensity of their live show and expands upon all of their past ideas ten-fold. Or maybe they’ve simply taken past ideas to their logical extremes, destroyed them, and birthed brand new ideas from their ashes. Either way, the band continues to evolve at an astonishing rate and further pushes their sonic spectrum into an unclassifiable area that is all at once hard to explain, but impossibly easy to listen to. And we don’t mean that in the “easy-listening” genre of music sense either. If anything, the band has become more technical and heavier than even the heaviest parts of “From Fathoms” (their critically acclaimed 2009 release), not in a “breakdown-and-beat-you-over-the-head” sort of way, but more in the album’s overall sound.

With more attention to dynamics than ever before, and a recording that truly demonstrates a band approaching a creative zenith, the new Gifts From Enola album is a lock to defy expectations and raise the creative bar yet again. Easily staying ahead of the pack by pushing themselves to color outside any preset guidelines laid down before them, the band has never intentionally shunned convention – but simply write music with their collective heart on their sleeve.
The album was mixed and mastered by Moving Mountains guitarist/vocalist Gregory Dunn with artwork handled by Three Bears Design (mewithoutYou, Caspian, Reliant K). This marks the bands third full length release, following up “Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind” (2006, The Mylene Sheath) and “From Fathoms” (2009, The Mylene Sheath), as well as a split CD with Seattle, WA’s You.May.Die.In.The.Desert (2008, Differential). Gifts From Enola is a band through flirting with their potential, as this album proves, this is band that has fearlessly reached the next level.

Available in badass CD and beautiful deluxe limited LP, the album is on full streaming for free here

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