PREVIEW: Metronomy announce UK tour dates and special reissue of iconic album

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INDIE pop rockers Metronomy have announced dates for a 2022 UK tour.

But fans only have a month to wait for a very special treat - the reissue of a 10th anniversary edition of their iconic career-changing album, The English Riviera.

And to celebrate they will share a new version of the album's global hit The Look, remixed by Grammy-nominated duo MGMT, producers of some of the most innovative psychedelic pop anthems of the 2000s.

BUY 2022 TOUR TICKETS: UK tour dates - full details below - include Barrowland, Glasgow on April 22, O2 Academy Leeds, on April 23 and Boiler Shop, Newcastle April 24. Tickets for all dates on sale Friday, March 26, 10am, at www.gigsandtours.com/tour/metronomy.

PRE-ORDER ALBUM: The English Riviera 10th Anniversary Edition will be available with six previously unreleased bonus tracks, including the recently shared Picking Up For You. It will be available to stream and buy on April 30, via Because Music - visit metronomy.lnk.to/TheEnglishRiviera.

LISTEN: Stream, download or buy The Look (MGMT remix) - visit metronomy.lnk.to/TheLookMGMT.

Frontman Joseph Mount also releases remixes under the name Metronomy and has remixed for superstars including Lady Gaga, Gorillaz, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp and Kate Nash.

Metronomy’s biggest selling album, The English Riviera was nominated for the Mercury Prize, is certified Gold in the UK and platinum in France, and upon release was met with wide scale critical acclaim - ranked as NME’s #2 album of the year.

Standout tracks, The Look and The Bay, remain Metronomy’s biggest and best recognised songs to date.

A love letter to the stretch of coast a stone's throw from where Joe grew up, it marked a breakout moment in the band’s history that would lead them to global success and see them constantly developing their sound for a decade to come.

About writing The Look, Joe says that he “came up with the bit that gets stuck in your head; the der-de-der-der bit. I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought ‘it’s not really Metronomy, is it’.

"Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London. We quite liked it, but that was about it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.

Iconic career-changing album, The English Riviera.Iconic career-changing album, The English Riviera.
Iconic career-changing album, The English Riviera.

"I still don’t know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.”

The band are currently working on what will be their seventh album, due for release next year.

Their UK tour, for April and May 2022, will take in 12 dates including a stop along the English Riviera to play in Torquay, and rounding out at London’s Alexandra Palace.

Having postponed their Metronomy Forever European tour dates in 2020 due to Covid-19, the band will also head out across the continent in March and April.

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The Look MGMT Remix

METRONOMY UK 2022 DATES

Friday 22 April - Barrowland - Glasgow, UK (new show)

Saturday 23 April - O2 Academy - Leeds, UK (new show)

Sunday 24 April - Boiler Shop - Newcastle, UK (new show)

Tuesday 26 April - Olympia Theatre - Dublin, Ireland (new show)

Wednesday 27 April - O2 Academy - Liverpool, UK (new show)

Thursday 28 April - Academy - Manchester, UK (new show)

Saturday 30 April - O2 Academy - Birmingham, UK (new show)

Sunday 1 May - Tramshed - Cardiff, UK (new show)

Tuesday 3 May - The Foundry - Torquay, UK (new show)

Wednesday 4 May - O2 Academy - Bristol, UK (new show)

Thursday 5 May - O2 Academy - Oxford, UK (new show)

Saturday 7 May - Alexandra Palace - London, UK (new show)

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