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Foals Announce UK Tour

• 18th May 2010

Foals announce full UK tour for October 2010.

Fri 29th Oct O2 ACADEMY Leeds
Sat 30th Oct ACADEMY Manchester
Sun 31st Oct HMV PICTURE HOUSE Edinburgh
Tue 2nd Nov O2 ACADEMY Glasgow
Weds 3rd Nov O2 ACADEMY Birmingham
Thurs 4th Nov O2 ACADEMY Bristol
Sat 6TH Nov ROCK CITY Nottingham
Sun 7th Nov GUILDHALL Southampton
Mon 8th Nov DOME Brighton
Weds 10th Nov UEA Norwich
Thurs 11th Nov ENGINE SHED Lincoln
Fri 12th Nov O2 BRIXTON ACADEMY London

Tickets £14 regional / £16.50 London.
On sale Friday 21st May @ 9am.

Oxford quintet Foals today announce a full UK tour which sees them close at London’s O2 Brixton Academy.

The band’s much anticipated second album Total Life Forever today entered the UK album charts at number 8 ahead of other new entries; Slash, Alicia Keys and Dead Weather. The band have enjoyed a mass of positive media coverage around the follow up to their 2008 debut ‘Antidotes’.

Total Life Forever was recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden during late 2009, by Luke Smith (Clor). The new album showcases a sound as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes was physically. Whereas the latter constantly reinforced its own presence by filling the air with yelping and polyrhythm, songs on the new album – such as disarming opener ‘Blue Blood’, ‘Two Trees’ and the astonishing ‘Black Gold’ – are happier to leave gaps for the mind’s ear to explore. 'Alabaster' is the shell of a song, stripped of its flesh and soaked in natural reverb, giving space for a joyous, anthemic chorus. Emotional highlight 'Spanish Sahara' builds from a still, dry space, into a hazy, hallucinatory soundscape, climaxing into a rush of shimmering guitars and keys. Pop gem 'Miami' retains the band's homespun interweaving riffs and rabid drumming, inspired and loosened by the bliss and sway of classic Balearic disco.

Foals are an independently-minded band, troubled but not torn, intent on choosing evolution over extinction.

Foals are //
Yannis Philippakis 23 (vocals/guitar)
Edwin Congreave 25 (keys)
Walter Gervers 26 (bass)
Jimmy Smith 25 (guitar)
Jack Bevan 24 (drums)