Young Legionnaire Reveal Details Of Debut Album 'Crisis Works' & Live Dates
Friday, 25 February 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Young Legionnaire, the new band featuring members of Bloc Party and yourcodenameis:milo have announced a series of shows in support of the May release of their debut album 'Crisis Works'. This week sees the beginning of a run of shows in support of Les Savy Fav. Following that the band head to the US and will then return for shows at Live at Leeds, The Camden Crawl,Liverpool Sound City and a huge support slot with recently reformed Death From Above 1979.
Formed by Paul Mullen formerly of yourcodenameismilo and Gordon Moakes of Bloc Party, Young Legionnaire are set to release their anticipated debut album ‘Crisis Works’ on May 9th through Wichita Recordings (The Bronx, Conor Oberst, Bloc Party, Best Coast).
Produced by Rich Jackson (Future Of The Left, The Automatic, The Chapman Family), the band’s first single/up front track ‘Chapter, Verse’ got its first, debut spin on Radio 1 with Zane Lowe on Monday 7th Feb and is also available to download now from www.younglegionnaire.com. The album follows on from the release of their debut, double A Side ‘Colossus/Iron Dream’ through Holy Roar in August 2010 and will be available on CD, 12” vinyl and digital download.
Young Legionnaire initially started following a chance meeting between Paul and Gordon during the recording sessions for the 'Print Is Dead' album in 2006, where Gordon guested on the track ‘Wait a Minute’ with Paul and the rest of YCNI:M. Some more conversations followed, eventually leading to their first rehearsals together as a band in 2009. The songs took shape over the course of occasional writing sessions, eventually becoming more concrete when the band were joined full-time by drummer Dean Pearson.
Live Dates:
February 2011
23 - The Globe, Cardiff (w/ Les Savy Fav)
24 - Moho Live, Manchester (w/ Les Savy Fav)
25 - Sound Bar, Birmingham (w/ Les Savy Fav)
26 - Kazimer, Liverpool (w/ Les Savy Fav)
27 - Corporation, Sheffield (w/ Les Savy Fav)
March 2011
01 - Tunnels, Aberdeen (w/ Les Savy Fav)
02 - The Cluny, Newcastle (w/ Les Savy Fav)
07 - Thekla, Bristol (Topman CTRL show)
14 - The Satellite, Los Angeles
15-19 - SXSW, Austin
22 - Mercury Lounge, New York
April 2011
30 - Live at Leeds, Leeds
May 2011
01 - The Camden Crawl, London
04 - The Forum w/ Death From Above 1979
21 - Sound City, Liverpool
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