Deap Vally return to our shores for their first confirmed tour dates of 2013 an the release of a new single.
The LA duo, Deap Vally, who recently completed UK and European dates as guests of The Vaccines and then Muse, will release 'Lies' on Communion/Island, and play nationwide dates, including a headline show at London Dingwalls on the week of the single’s release and an NME Awards show at Brixton Academy with The Cribs and And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead.
'Lies' will be released as 7” single and download b/w 'EZ Cum', and, like all the band’s output to date - from first demos to their upcoming debut album - has been produced by Lars Stelfors (The Mars Volta). The single was mixed by Grammy winning engineer Robert Orton.
Dates:
Fri22nd FEBLONDON, Brixton Academy (NME Awards Show)
Sat23rdSHEFFIELD, Queens Social (with Drenge)
Sun24thBIRMINGHAM, Rainbow (with Drenge)
Tues26thLONDON, DINGWALLS (with Drenge)
Thur28thBRIGHTON, The Haunt (with Drenge)
Fri1st MARBRISTOL, Thekla (with Drenge)
Sat2ndMIDDLESBOROUGH, Empire (with Drenge)
Mon4thGLASGOW, King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
Tues5thYORK, Fibbers
Wed6thMANCHESTER, Deaf Institute (with Drenge)
Thu7thLIVERPOOL, The Shipping Forecast (with Drenge)
NB on dates with Drenge, the two bands will rotate headline slots.
Deap Vally break blues down to its simplest, most fundamental form: beat, melody, and meaning, while the duo’s scorching live shows are fast becoming the stuff of legend. Unlikely as it may seem, the pair did actually first meet at a needlework class, just last year. Bonding over their crochet hooks with a love of the blues, first demos and videos of the girls’ live shows have been cropping up online with increasing frequency over the past few months, Filter Magazine invited the band to perform at their Coachella party, and they even caught the ears of one Josh Homme, whose Eagles of Death Metal invited the girls to open for them in LA. The summer’s UK shows grew the whispers that these girls were something special into a more fitting roar, and Island/Communion won the race for their signatures. Between tour dates, the band are hard at work on tracks for a debut album, to be released on Island Records / Communion in 2013.
“Singing guitarist Lindsey Troy yowls like a wildcat while coaxing heavy blues rock riffs out of her guitar. They are impossible not to love.” THE OBSERVER
“Think a hippie Karen O fronting Black Sabbath and you’re somewhere in the caustic, blues-riffing ballpark as these Los Angelinos. A hollerin’, howlin’, hell-raising duo”. NME
Published on 05 January 2013 by Wayne Feltham
