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Gigs & Festivals Releases
Shonen Knife announce 30th anniversary tour
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 May 2011
Currently celebrating their 30th year in existence, Shonen Knife have announced a tour of the UK and Ireland, which will culminate in a birthday show at The Scala in London. The band will also release their fifteenth solo album, ‘Free Time’, in the UK on 11 Jul via Damnably.
The first single from the album will be the double A-side, ‘Perfect Freedom/PYO’. ‘Perfect Freedom’ sees the band “take on Bakunin & Kropotkin and question anarchism and the concept of true freedom in our internet obsessed times”, while ‘PYO’ was inspired by a ‘pick your own’ the band once visited in Sussex.
Tour dates:
11 Aug: London, CAMP
12 Aug: Summer Sundae Festival
13 Aug: Manchester, Deaf Institute
14 Aug: Newcastle, Cluny
15 Aug: Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
16 Aug: Glasgow, Nice N Sleazy
17 Aug: Belfast, Blackbox
18 Aug: Galway, Róisín Dubh
19 Aug: Dublin, Whelans
20 Aug: Bristol, The Fleece
10 Sep: Nottingham, Bogeda Social
11 Sep: London, The Scala (30th Anniversary Party Show)