CHVRCHES are preparing to take their ‘Screen Voilence’ album on the road for a nationwide UK tour this March.
Preceded by two intimate Scottish out store shows in Dundee and Glasgow before kicking the main event off at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange, the band will travel to Newcastle, London and Birmingham, before culminating in Manchester. Full dates are as follows:
Thursday 10 March – Fat Sams – Dundee
Saturday 12 March – SWG3 – Glasgow
Monday 14 March – Edinburgh – Corn Exchange
Tuesday 15 March – Newcastle – O2 City Hall
Wednesday 16 March – London – O2 Academy Brixton
Friday 18 March – Birmingham – O2 Academy
Saturday 19 March – Manchester – O2 Apollo
re:SOUND will be at the Dundee show so look out for our exclusive review and gallery.
The tour follows the recent unveiling of an expanded version of their critically-acclaimed album: Screen Violence: Director’s Cut, which features three new songs, ‘Killer’, ‘Bitter End’ and ‘Screaming’, available digitally via EMI Records (UK) & Glassnote (US).
Released two days ahead of Halloween was a thank you to fans for the phenomenal reception to Screen Violence, the Director’s Cut continues a milestone era for the band and celebrated the spooky season deep within the cinematic universe that Screen Violence immerses itself in. ‘Screaming’ and ‘Bitter End’ face the disillusionment and fear that permeate the record head on, while the eerie darkness of ‘Killer’ devilishly flips the script: “I turned into a killer / I’m insane / I’ll cry you a river / Down the drain / Are you entertained?”
On the new tracks, front woman Lauren Mayberry says:
“This album was thematically so different to previous CHVRCHES albums that it would have been rude of us to let Halloween come and go without injecting some more Screen Violence into it. ‘Killer’, ‘Bitter End’ and ‘Screaming’ were all started in 2020 and finished just after the album was released. As any good horror fan knows, just because the film ends, it doesn’t mean the story does.”
