Athlete Announce Extensive Winter UK Tour & Tickets
Monday, 07 June 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
South London four-piece Athlete have announced a busy shedule of UK shows for November and December this year.
Comprised of childhood friends, indie-rock band Athlete consist of Carey Willets on bass, Joel Pott on guitar, Steve Roberts on drums and Tim Wanstall on keyboards. Forming in 2000 the band started blending their influences such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips whilst jamming in the basement of The Bear pub in Deptford High Street.
Now, four albums and five top 40 singles later Athlete have become one of Britain’s most influential groups. The band didn’t experience high-profile success straight away, with their debut album ‘Vehicles and Animals’ going platinum in 2005, two years after it’s initial release in 2003. The album was also nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
Second album ‘Tourist’ was much quicker to receive success with the album going straight in at Number One on the UK Album Charts. We all remember the huge success of single “Wires” don’t we? Well the track won the band the Ivor Novello Award in 2006 for “Best Contemporary Song”.
Fresh from last year’s release of ‘Black Swan’, the band’s fouth studio album, Athlete have now announced an extensive UK winter tour kicking off in mid-November rolling through to early December.
Athlete will play the following UK dates:
November 2010
16th O2 Academy, Liverpool
17th The Assembly, Lemington Spa
18th Rock City, Nottingham
21st Waterfront, Norwich
22nd The Junction, Cambridge
24th O2 Academy, Oxford
25th O2 Academy, Bournmouth
27th O2 Academy, Leeds
29th O2 Academy 2, Sheffield
December 2010
1st O2 Academy, Newcastle
3rd Academy 2, Manchester
4th HMV Institute, Birmingham
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