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Manchester Orchestra Headline Dates In Addition To Biffy Clyro Support

• 16th Sep 2009

Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra have announced two headline shows to run alongside their confirmed dates as special guests across the UK to Biffy Clyro this Autumn. The band will play their biggest UK show to date at London’s Heaven venue on 17th November. These shows follow on from their recent triumphant headline tour & slots at Reading/Leeds & Latitude. As ever with Manchester Orchestra, expect to be blown away in the wake of their immense live show, recently dubbed by Kerrang! Magazine as “one of the best live shows you will see all year.” Their second album Mean Everything To Nothing was released fully on Columbia Records earlier this month having received significant critical acclaim.

The dates are as follows:

28th October Belfast, St Georges Market (with Biffy Clyro)

29th October Dublin, Olympia (with Biffy Clyro)

30th October York, Duchess (Headline)

1st November Dundee, Caird Hall (with Biffy Clyro)

2nd November Glasgow, Barrowlands (with Biffy Clyro)

3rd November Glasgow, Barrowlands (with Biffy Clyro)

4th November Newcastle, Academy (with Biffy Clyro)

6th November Leeds, Academy (with Biffy Clyro)

7th November Manchester, Apollo (with Biffy Clyro)

8th November Nottingham, Rock City (with Biffy Clyro)

9th November Birmingham, Academy (with Biffy Clyro)

11th November Norwich ,UEA (with Biffy Clyro)

12th November London, Brixton Academy (with Biffy Clyro)

13th November Brighton, Dome (with Biffy Clyro)

15th November Cardiff, University (with Biffy Clyro)

16th November Southampton, Guildhall (with Biffy Clyro)

17th November London, Heaven (Headline)

Already picking up massive support in the US across rock radio, Mean Everything To Nothing, is everything you want a rock record to be: raw, urgent, emotional, and 100 percent authentic. “There is nothing fake about this record,” says frontman and lyricist Andy Hull. “There’s not one fake sound on it. We recorded it live because we wanted it to sound live and loud!”

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.