Fake Problems Tour Dates

• 6th May 2009

FAKE PROBLEMS will be bringing their raucous live show to the UK prior to their previously announced dates with the lauded Frank Turner. Kicking off with slots at Reading and Leeds festival at the end of August, this band of exuberant Floridians play a one-off UK headline date at Brighton Freebutt in August before heading out to mainland Europe and then returning back to the UK in October for the aforementioned mammoth run of dates with Frank Turner. Having wowed audiences at this year’s SXSW festival, you can bet that their next run of UK shows will be something truly special.

Growing up is never easy, but when you’re in a band it often seems impossible. Make the same record twice and you’re chastised for being repetitive, but if you make too large of a sonic shift your fan base will desert you. Luckily Fake Problems have never had to deal with this dilemma because with each release they’ve not only organically reinvented their sound, they’ve also successfully redefined who they are as musicians and human beings in the process. The band’s SideOneDummy debut It’s Great To Be Alive shows Fake Problems’ unique brand of indie rock shaking off the insecurity and soul-searching of adolescence and sees the band embracing a sense of perspective that can only be gained by spending countless months on the road touring, laughing and writing music they believe in.

The album was produced in the midst of the cornfields of Omaha, Nebraska in a mere two weeks by A.J. Mogis (Bright Eyes, Cursive). From the sinister shuffle of ‘You’re A Serpent, You’re a She-Snake’ to orchestral ballads like ‘Tabernacle Song’ and intricately layered anthems like ‘There Are Times,’ It’s Great To Be Alive is less of a traditional album and more of a sonic journey that refuses to be limited by genre constraints.

FAKE PROBLEMS LIVE DATES

Aug 28 UK Reading Festival

Aug 29 UK Brighton Freebutt

Aug 30 UK Leeds Festival

w/ Frank Turner

Oct 14 UK Belfast Stiff Kitten Club
Oct 15 UK Glasgow QMU
Oct 16 UK Manchester Academy 2
Oct 17 UK Newcastle University
Oct 18 UK Nottingham Rock City
Oct 19 UK Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Oct 20 UK Oxford Academy
Oct 22 UK Leeds Met University
Oct 23 UK Cambridge Junction
Oct 24 UK Plymouth University
Oct 25 UK Exeter Lemon Grove
Oct 26 UK Bristol Anson Rooms
Oct 27 UK Cardiff University
Oct 28 UK Winchester Guildhall
Oct 29 UK London Shepherd’s Bush Empire