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Manchester Orchestra Tour Dates

• 20th Jul 2009

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

UK HEADLINE DATES plus Latitude and Reading and Leeds festivals

Album ‘Mean Everything To Nothing’ in stores now

Andy Hull — vocals, guitar | Jonathan Corley — bass | Jeremiah Edmond — drums | Christopher Freeman — keyboard | Robert McDowell — guitar

Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra, the band are set to return to the UK and Ireland for a string of headline dates and a performance at this year’s Latitude festival.

Inspired by the pounding, primal assault of Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’, Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’, and Foo Fighters’ ‘The Colour and the Shape’, this young band has created its own version of what a classic rock album should sound like, complete with fiercely beautiful melodies, shifting guitar and keyboard textures, loud/soft dynamics, and an urgency in each band member’s performance, especially Hull’s cathartic vocals.

A fully realized album, ‘Mean Everything To Nothing’ is the sound of a band coming into its own after spending 300 days on the road in support of their debut album, 2007’s ‘I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child’. After more than a year of touring with such artists as Kings of Leon, Brand New, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Say Anything, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, as well as performing their own headlining shows, Manchester Orchestra has become a powerful and well-oiled machine. Set to take this new masterpiece on the road again Manchester Orchestra are an urgent and unmissable live act.

21 Jul ICA London

28 Aug Reading Festival

30 Aug Leeds Festival