Rat Boy is set to take his anarchic live show on tour for his biggest headline tour to date. The announcement comes as Rat Boy prepares to release his first new material of the year.

Ahead of the release of his debut album, Rat Boy has proved impossible to pigeonhole – his charismatic and often narrative lyrics being the constant in a sound that encompasses hip-hop, indie, punk, big beat, and electro-pop. Always eager to discover disparate new influences, his previous EP Get Over It was further inspired by lost cuts from the worlds of USSR funk and retro Japanese folk.

Rat Boy has just been nominated for Best Music Video for ‘Get Over It’ at the NME Awards. Co-directed with his friend Tommy D, the DIY video also features a car built by his dad.

Rat Boy will play:

April

25th – Glasgow, O2 ABC

26th – Leeds, University Union

27th – Newcastle, University

28th – Stoke, Sugarmill

29th – Oxford, O2 Academy 1

May

1st – Norwich, Waterfront

2nd – Birmingham, O2 Institute 1

3rd – Bristol, Bierkeller

5th – Manchester, Academy 1

6th – London, Roundhouse

Tickets for all shows go on general sale from 9am on Friday February 3rd. Spring King support at London and Manchester, with support for the remaining shows to be confirmed soon.

Swans return to the UK for an evening at London's Roundhouse on May 27 with very special guest Thurston Moore, marking Swans' final London performance in the band’s current incarnation.

On 28 May Swans perform at the debut Transformer festival in Manchester on a bill that includes The Fall, Royal Trux’s first UK show in over 15 years, This Is Not This Heat and Loop. An ideal line up for a band that play songs like ‘Raping A Slave’, ’Public Castration Is A Good Idea’ and ‘You People Make Me Fucking Sick’. Their recent show at the Islington Assembly Hall was chronicled here by our own Robert Freeman.

Following the announcement of May 2017 dates in London and Manchester, Swans have confirmed details of European tour in spring 2017 in support of their latest album, The Glowing Man.

Little Annie will join Swans on the European dates from Oslo through to Amsterdam, and further guests will be announced over the coming months.

3 March - GR Athens, Gagarin 205

4 March - GR Thessaloniki, Block 33

6 March - FI Helsinki, Tavastia

8 March - NO Oslo, Rockefeller *

9 March - SE Stockholm, Kraken Sthlm*

11 March - DK Copenhagen, Grey Hall*

12 March - DK Aarhus, VoxHall*

14 March - CZ Brno, FledaClub*

15 March - SK Kosice, TabaKa Kulturfabrik*

17 March - LT Vilnius, Legendos Klubas*

19 March - UA Kiev, Sentrum*

22 March - RO Cluj-Napoca, FORM Space Club*

23 March - RO Bucharest, Control Club*

24 March - MK Skopje, MKC*

25 March - RS Belgrade, Dom Omladine*

27 March - HR Rijeka, Pogon Kulture*

28 March - CH Zürich, Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac*

29 March - DE Dortmund, FZW*

30 March - BE Ghent, Kompass Klub*

31 March - NL Amsterdam, Paradiso Music Hall*

May27 May – London, Roundhouse – Tickets

28 May – Manchester, Victoria Warehouse – Tickets

*with Little Annie