Black Peaks Join Legends Enter Shikari on Tour for 2019
Following the release of their recent single, FATE I, taken from their second album ALL THAT DIVIDES (awarded Album of the Year 2018 by Upset Magazine) and the announcement that they will be supporting ENTER SHIKARI on their UK tour in January and February, Brighton four-piece BLACK PEAKS have now announced a number of headline dates of their own, taking in Reading, Stoke, Bridgend, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, Huddersfield and Lincoln. Full dates as below.
Watch the video for FATE I here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSaHTcd7rg4&feature=youtu.be
JANUARY
Fri 11 NOTTINGHAM Rock City *
Sat 12 LONDON Brixton Academy *
Sun 13 LEICESTER O2 Academy *
Tue 15 LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru *
Wed 16 LIVERPOOL O2 Academy *
Fri 18 BRISTOL O2 Academy *
Sat 19 SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion *
Sun 20 NORWICH UEA *
Mon 21 READING University | HEADLINE
Wed 23 GLASGOW Barrowland *
Thu 24 ABERDEEN Beach Ballroom *
Fri 25 INVERNESS Ironworks *
Sat 26 PRESTON Guildhall *
Mon 28 NORTHAMPTON Roadmender *
Tue 29 SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall *
Wed 30 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange *
FEBRUARY
Fri 01 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy *
Sat 02 LEEDS O2 Academy *
Sun 03 MANCHESTER Academy *
Mon 04 NEWCASTLE O2 Academy *
Thu 07 STOKE Sugarmill | HEADLINE
Fri 08 BRIDGEND Hobos | HEADLINE
Sat 09 MILTON KEYNES Craufurd Arms | HEADLINE
Sun 10 PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms | HEADLINE
Tue 12 HUDDERSFIELD Parish | HEADLINE
Fri 15 LINCOLN Engine Shed | HEADLINE
* with ENTER SHIKARI
Headline dates with PHOXJAW
This single is the first part of the final double track, FATE I & II, from the second album, ALL THAT DIVIDES, which came out in October through Rise Records / BMG to rave reviews across the board. NME gave the album 5/5 and said, “With All That Divides, the band delivers an album that’s confident, stylistically cohesive, and points towards their ascending star in the future. If there’s one thing that this album shows, it’s that Black Peaks are a force to be reckoned with”; whilst UPSET MAGAZINE – who put the band on the cover of their September issue – also gave the album 5/5 and said, “Black Peaks bellow unity from the rooftops. It’s not a political record but it does dish out the blame. Rather than dwelling in the mire, though, Black Peaks want hope. They need it. A call to arms entwined, it’s a record of struggle and resistance. It doesn’t have the answers but it knows they’re out there and it wants us to find them together.”
Other outlets like KERRANG! (4/5) DORK (5/5) METAL HAMMER (8/10) PLANET ROCK MAGAZINE (4/5) RHYTHM (4/5) DISCOVERED MAGAZINE (10/10) THE SKINNY (4/5) and NEW NOISE (5/5) backed up the praise, with THE INDEPENDENT stating, “Their sublime second album is massive in every sense of the word. Bringing in Adrian Bushby [Foo Fighters, Muse] was a masterstroke – his production plays a big part in how it offers up vast sonic landscapes that take you on an intense, emotional journey via album highlight Aether, across Slow Seas, and closing on Fate I & II. This feels like a real achievement.”
BLACK PEAKS previously released the singles HOME, ELECTRIC FIRES and CAN’T SLEEP from the album, with the latter a BBC Radio 1 Rock Show Rockest Record and Huw Stevens Single of The Week in April. In 2018, as well as their recent ALL THAT DIVIDES headline UK tour – which took in two sold out London shows at The Omeara and The Underworld – the band have toured with A PERFECT CIRCLE across Europe, with MARMOZETS throughout the UK, and performed a special one-off show for BBC Radio 1 in Swansea as headliner for their Biggest Weekend Fringe Festival. In the summer, the band played a host of UK and EU festivals including ArcTanGent, Fat Lip, Leeds and Reading, and 2000 Trees.
