Cast have announced details of the release of a new single. Time Bomb will be released on Monday March 5th through Cast Records. The single is taken from their forthcoming album, Troubled Times which will be released the same day.
Originally formed in 1992 from the ashes of two of the most legendary and lauded guitar bands of the time, The La’s and Shack, Cast released four albums (three of them top 10), and had ten top 10 singles. The second album also went platinum.
During that time, Noel Gallagher described watching the band as “a religious experience”, and at release ‘All Change’ was the highest biggest selling album of all time for Polydor. After the band’s split, Power released three solo albums, and has played intermittently since 2005 with the reformed La’s.
A decade later, and the original line-up of John Power (guitar/ vocals), Liam ‘Skin’ Tyson (lead guitar), Pete Wilkinson (bass) and Keith O’Neill (drums) have reunited with original producer John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead, The Fall) for ‘Troubled Times’. The reinvigorated band have produced an album full of the anthemic, melodic and beautifully written songs for which they have always been loved by their fervent fanbase.
John Power says of the reformation:
‘Getting back with the band and working with John Leckie again after all these years apart was just how I envisioned it when I started writing the songs for this album. Then it was all about putting into words what it was I was feeling, about all the things I was seeing all around me and troubled times is what we found’
Cast have also confirmed a UK Tour for March & April 2012. The dates are as follows:
March
Thurs 1st Nottingham - Bodega
Mon 5th Bristol - Louisiana
Weds 27th Sheffield - Leadmill
Thu 29th Newcastle - O2 Academy
Fri 30th Glasgow - 02 Academy
Sat 31st Liverpool- University
April
Sun 1st Leamington Spa- Assembly
Tue 3rd Cambridge- Junction
Wed 4th Manchester- Academy
Thu 5th Birmingham- 02 Academy
Fri 6th London - 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
Published on 06 February 2012 by Wayne Feltham
