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Enter Shikari have unveiled a St Albans FC away strip after renewing their sponsorship deal with the club for the upcoming season.The shirts, according to a press release, are “manufactured by Hummel using their ECO8 technology (meaning each shirt is constructed from high-performing polyester produced from up to eight recycled plastic bottles)” and will be released in early August ahead of the new season.The band have also announced a collaborative Enter Shikari x SACFC merch capsule range – featuring a t-shirt, hoodie and a cropped t-shirt – designed by Spearhead, to support the club.You view the strip and capsule range below and pre-order them from 5pm BST today (July 18) here.The band first sponsored the St Albans FC home shirt in 2020. They also went on to sponsor the National League South side charity shirt that same season to raise funds for food banks across the UK.Enter Shikari are due to hit the road for a UK headline tour which kicks off in November.

Charlie Simpson has been announced as joining the upcoming musical adaptation of Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds.With the adaptation of H.G. Wells’ iconic Sci-fi story set to hit the road as a series of shows next year, Simpson joins an already packed line-up.

Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds has confirmed that he’ll be joining the live stage version of The War Of The Worlds alongside The Wanted‘s Max George.The announcement comes following the huge run of live shows Enter Shikari have embarked on over the past year, and will see the frontman contribute his vocals as he joins the cast of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of classic sci-fi story.Taking on the role of The Artilleryman, Reynolds will be the latest to tackle the role, following on from performances from Jason Donovan, Kevin Clifton, Adam Garcia, David Essex, and Kaiser Chiefs’, Ricky Wilson and more. He will play the character for the entirety of ‘The Spirit of Man Tour’ in 2025.He’ll be joining an all-star cast, which also sees The Wanted’s Max George as Parson Nathaniel, and Maisie Smith as Beth, The Parson’s Wife.

Enter Shikari have announced a run of “smaller, sweatier” shows for later this year.After they played a massive UK arena tour earlier this year, and are set to perform on the main stage of Download Festival this weekend, the band are set to round out the year by returning to some towns and venues they haven’t played as frequently.“People often travel considerable distances to come to live shows, so we feel it’s important for us to make the effort as well sometimes and play places that your standard tour wouldn’t normally,” frontman Rou Reynolds said in a press release.“On this run we’ve got some smaller stops that we haven’t played in ages, sandwiched in with cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Glasgow, that we didn’t get to visit on our arena tour.“As much as we love the bigger rooms it’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again, and as these will be our last UK shows for quite a while, we couldn’t go into hiding without one last visit to the Barras!”The tour is similar in size and scope to their 2013 ‘Return To Energiser’ tour, which saw the band play a range of smaller towns, including a show on Weston-Super-Mare’s pier.To coincide with the announcement Enter Shikari also shared a live video of them performing recent single ‘Losing My Grip’ featuring a guest appearance from Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler.“Preparing our production for the arena tour was so intense that we never got to make a music video for ‘Losing My Grip’.

Enter Shikari have made a speech expressing solidarity with Palestine at their huge Wembley Arena gig last night (February 17).The St Albans band have just finished off their massive UK arena tour at London’s arena last night, where frontman Rou Reynolds made a riveting speech in support of Palestine: “We cannot just enjoy this moment without acknowledging the fact that there are children being blown to pieces by a government and a country that has been completely lost in nationalistic and religious fervour.”He continued to express solidarity “with the activists and actionists up and down the country who have been blocking and targeting the Israeli weapons manufacturing factories.” Reynolds also emphasise that “our country is very complicit in this atrocity”, and supported “those who are targeting the investment banks that are effectively bankrolling genocide.“We have been yelling ‘Free Gaza’, ‘Free Palestine’ for 15 years,” he said. “I just hope to God that there is still a Gaza and a Palestine left when this fucking nightmare ends.“So let us be grateful for tonight, we have safety.

Enter Shikari and Fever 333 lead singer Jason Butler have today (January 16) shared a new collaboration – listen to ‘Losing My Grip’ below.‘Losing My Grip’ marks the first new music from Enter Shikari in 2024 ahead of the start of their UK tour next month. Fever-333 will also be supporting the band on the upcoming run of dates.Talking about their new single, lead singer and producer Rou Reynolds explained: “We’ve known [Fever 333 lead singer] Jason for years now and have toured much of the world together.

Enter Shikari have announced the dates of a UK tour in 2024 – including a number of arena shows – with plans to donate £1 from every ticket sold to the Music Venue Trust to support grassroots venues in each city they visit.“Grassroots music venues in the UK are under existential threat”, says frontman Rou Reynolds. “Every time we lose another one we lose a vital part of our culture”.“Bigger venues that benefit from the productive pipeline that grassroots venues provide need to support these smaller venues, as do the artists that have come up through them”, he adds.

Enter Shikari have announced a new 2024 tour, which will hit arenas around the UK in support of Music Venue Trust. Find ticket details below.Shared today (April 2), the upcoming tour will feature seven dates across the United Kingdom, taking place in early 2024.

RELEASESTame Impala have released new track ‘Wings Of Time’, taken from the soundtrack of upcoming movie ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’. “Being asked to do a track for the ‘D&D’ soundtrack seemed like an unmissable opportunity to indulge in my long time love of fantasy prog rock”, says main man Kevin Parker.Fever Ray has released the video for ‘Even It Out’, from new album ‘Radical Romantics’, which came out on Friday. The clip features a cameo from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who produced the track.Enter Shikari have released new single ‘Bloodshot’.

Enter Shikari have released ‘Bloodshot’, the third single from their upcoming album ‘A Kiss For The Whole World’. Check it out below.The single comes follows the previous tasters of the new album, ‘(pls) set me on fire’ and ‘It Hurts’. As frontman Rou Reynolds explained, ‘Bloodshot’ was inspired by frontman Rou Reynolds’ questioning of society and the media.“Bloodshot is about how hard it is to find truth and how easy it is to stop thinking for yourself and simply repeat your ‘team’s’ mantras,” he said.

You Me At Six have announced a pair of warm-up shows for the week of Reading and Leeds 2023.The band will be playing two intimate gigs before making their return to Little John’s Farm and Bramham Park. The band will be playing Leicester’s O2 Academy on August 22 and Bournemouth’s O2 Academy on August 23.Tickets will go on sale on Friday (February 17) – you can buy yours here.The Weybridge quintet’s new album ‘Truth Decay’ was released on Friday (February 10) after a two-week delay due to vinyl production issues.

You Me At Six have released a new collaborative single with Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds – listen to ‘No Future? Yeah Right’ below.The joint track was premiered on Daniel P Carter’s ‘Rock Show’ on BBC Radio 1 last night (September 12).Reynolds had described the anthemic, synth-heavy song as “a belter” in a previous post on social media. The collaboration arrives with a red-filtered official video, which you can watch below.‘No Future? Yeah Right’ follows on from You Me At Six’s previous single ‘Deep Cuts’.

You Me At Six have announced a new collaborative single with Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds.The song, titled ‘No Future? Yeah Right’, is set to arrive next Tuesday (September 13). Fans who pre-save/pre-add the track on streaming platforms can “unlock” a brief preview snippet.Posting underneath the announcement of the forthcoming team-up on Instagram, Reynolds wrote: “This is a belter, people.”‘No Future? Yeah Right’ will follow on from You Me At Six’s latest single ‘Deep Cuts’.

Slam Dunk Festival has confirmed the 2023 event will be headlined by Enter Shikari and The Offspring.Slam Dunk will be returning to Hatfield Park on 27 May and Leeds Temple Newsam on 28 May. Joining Enter Shikari and The Offspring will be Creeper, Billy Talent and Bowling For Soup.The festival has also confirmed exclusive reunions from The Academy Is and Kids In Glass Houses, who will celebrating the 15th anniversary of debut album ‘Smart Casual’.“Slam Dunk 2008 fell a day before Smart Casual was released and marked the start of a pretty unforgettable journey for our band,” said vocalist Aled Phillips.“It feels very fitting that 15 years later to the day we can come back and celebrate a special part of our career at Slam Dunk 2023.

Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds has confirmed that the band’s Reading Festival set being cut short yesterday (August 27) “wasn’t an act of censorship”.The band were playing the festival’s Main Stage East on Saturday afternoon, when a power outage meant they had to leave the stage and couldn’t return due to tight scheduling.The power outage occurred just after Reynolds made an impassioned speech about polluting water companies including Thames Water, leading many fans on social media to claim that the band were removed from the stage on purpose, rather than because of a genuine power cut.Taking to Twitter this morning (August 28), Reynolds quote tweeted a fan who called the incident “political censorship right in front of our eyes” and alleged that the festival had “cut the power” to the band for “speaking the truth about sewage pollution in our waters and Tory greed”.Clarifying the situation, Reynolds wrote: “Just to clarify everyone – it wasn’t an act of censorship, it was a power outage at front-of-house. Immense bad luck, and of course bad timing.”“We then had our set cut as the power cut pushed our set over our allotted time slot.

Enter Shikari have shared a new single featuring Wargasm – listen to ‘The Void Stares Back’ below.The collaborative track is said to signal “a new beginning” for Enter Shikari, whose sixth and latest album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’ came out in April 2020.Speaking about the song, frontman Rou Reynolds explained: “It is with elation, and more than a little nervousness, that we release this; our first track after over two years of dormancy. It is a roisterous journey made all the more so with the addition of our friends Wargasm.”As for the themes of ‘The Void Stares Back’, Reynolds said that it’s “about the forward march of social progress, and how, often, those with a more conventional archaic outlook on sexuality, gender, social design, economics etc, see those with differing ideas like bewildering, depraved creatures from another dimension”.Tune in here:Wargasm talked about how Enter Shikari played a “big part” in their lives growing up, and said it was “an absolute honour” to work with them: “They stand for the right things – we’re a little more pessimistic.

Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds has urged fans to take “personal action” to help tackle climate change, in the wake of a damning new report.A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published this week says that humanity’s damaging impact on the climate is now a “statement of fact”.After climate activist Greta Thunberg called on humanity to take “brave” action to avoid a catastrophic climate change crisis, Reynolds has shared his own tips on how people can help on a personal level.“After hearing the IPCC report I feel at a loss. I feel helpless,” a fan tweeted at Reynolds.

Enter Shikari have surprised fans with the release of a new live album, as well as announcing details of a new book. Watch our full video interview with frontman Rou Reynolds above.Exactly one year to the day from the release of the band’s acclaimed sixth album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’ comes the companion collection ‘Moratorium (Broadcasts From The Interruption)’ – made up of tracks recorded during livestreams over the last year.“It’s a load of sessions that we did from the first lockdown onwards throughout the year – the ones that felt special,” Reynolds told NME.

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