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Fresh Chops: The Vaccines

• 20th Jan 2015

The Vaccines have announced details of the release of the first track from their forthcoming third album. ‘Handsome’ is available to pre-order now – it will be available digitally and as a limited edition orange vinyl 7” which will also be in the shops on Monday 9th March 2015.

The single was recorded in the winter of 2014 at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studio in upstate New York and comes with a riotously tongue in cheek video.

“We wanted to create a video that was a sort of bubblegum ode to cinema and, in particular, Hong Kong kung fu movies,” explains Justin Young of the band. “Music to me is entertainment, and escapism, and we wanted the video to be an extension of that. We want to create another world in which we can play aspirational and heightened versions of ourselves. We shot this through a winter’s night in a warehouse in Brooklyn, just before Christmas. No fun indeed. Gerson though, as Canada directors always seem to do, helped us escape and create exactly the world in which we wish we lived.”

The band have also announced a short UK tour in March and April playing exclusive, intimate shows visiting some regional towns and cities for the first time in their career.

Watch the video here:

The full list of shows is as follows:

MARCH
27th Nottingham Rock City
28th Hartlepool Borough Hall
29th Glasgow Old Fruit Market
31st Scunthorpe Baths Hall

APRIL
1st Manchester Albert Hall
3rd Portsmouth Pyramids
4th Bath Pavilion
5th Folkestone The Leas Cliff Hall
8th London Brixton Electric