After some time away working on new material, Marmozets’ incendiary live show is back on the road this week as they embark upon a warm-up tour ahead of their sets at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals. With their current warm up dates entirely sold-out in advance, the band can now announce details of a headline tour that commences in October.

The tour – scheduled below – comes as Marmozets prepare to launch their eagerly anticipated second album which has been produced by Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, Pixies). The album follows their 2014 debut The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets which earned them Kerrang!’s coveted Album Of The Year award as they became the hottest new band on the Brit alt-rock scene.

Further acclaim for the album came from The Guardian (“Songs flit around from riff to riff, as if Marmozets were bursting to fill each song with ideas”) and Q (“A very impressive, ambitious debut”), while Noisey highlighted vocalist Becca Macintyre as someone who “could be instrumental in a big change for British rock… Becca is challenging British rock and setting a high bar for other bands because she’s just an amazing fronthuman.”

“Everyone’s so excited to get back on the road, we really can’t wait,” says guitarist Jack Bottomley as the band’s momentum gains traction. “We’re all in a really good place and we’re totally ready for what’s to come.”

October

17th – Hull, The Welly Club

18th – Middlesborough, The Empire

19th – Glasgow, Saint Luke’s

21st – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (community room)

22nd – Manchester, Academy 3

23rd – Birmingham, O2 Academy 2

25th – London, The Garage

27th – Norwich, Arts Centre

28th – Bristol, The Fleece

29th – Bournemouth, The Old Fire Station

30th – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

Tickets go on sale from www.seetickets.com at 9am on Friday August 18th, priced at £13.50 for London and £12 for all other dates.

A port city is a place where cultures and histories collide, where goods and ideas are imported and absorbed into the local bloodstream. Not entirely un-coincidentally, Port Cities the band is the musical equivalent; a melting pot of three of Canada’s most creative individual talents, drawn together to make an entity even more outstanding as a group than as its constituent parts.

As with any form of musical collaboration, the magic occurs in the blending of one element with another, but unlike most groups, Port Cities never started out to be a band. Comprised of trio of celebrated Nova Scotian musicians Carleton Stone, Dylan Guthro and Breagh MacKinnon, Port Cities were drawn together through songwriting as independent artists, with every intention of crafting new material, and then going their separate ways. Yet that is not quite how it panned out.

Port Cities’ music is a perfect balance of Nashville (where much of it was recorded) and Nova Scotia (where the band reside); of the rustic and atmospheric, of indie intimacy and the sort of arena-pop anthems that betray Port Cities’ globe-trotting ambitions; 2017 sees the band embark upon their second cross-Canadian and European tours. Such ambition does not prevent moments of delicate musical insight though and new single ‘Where Have You Been’ is seductive with oozing harmonies, intricate slide guitar and acoustic movements and contemplative lyrics. As Stone explains, “One thing we all seem to connect with lyrically is showing a less-than-perfect idea of love, and not being scared to talk about how everything is not great, or call out a lot of what normal, traditional love songs would be about.”

 UK tour dates:

 25th September- The Slaughtered Lamb- London