While we’d normally expect bands to travel a bit further afield than just one city when on tour in the UK, we’ve decided to make a rare exception for 2012’s first Stereoboard Tour of the Week. Canadian hardcore punkers Cancer Bats have chosen to celebrate the forthcoming launch of their new album ‘Dead Set on Living’ in style by cramming a week’s worth of tour dates into a single day – Saturday 21st April.
Obviously venturing outside of the capital would prove especially difficult for this particular feat, but the band have made things even more interesting by selecting five venues that will take them on a pentagram-shaped mini-tour of London town – check out our sketchy map below, courtesy of Google.
That’s right, the Toronto-based quartet have chosen to kindly celebrate the unveiling of their fourth album with their London fans for the ‘Dead Set on Living’ Pentagram Tour. The 24-hour tour will take Cancer Bats on a 30-mile trek around the city, kicking off at the inconceivably early hour of 11.30am at The Old Blue Last in Great Eastern Street. The jaunt will then continue onto the Notting Hill Arts Club six miles away, just two-and-a-half hours later, before taking the band up to The Garage at Highbury Corner and then all the way down to the Brixton Windmill. For their penultimate show, Cancer Bats will perform at Camden Barfly at the much more socially-acceptable time of 9.30pm before they return to The Old Blue Last to complete their one-day tour with a midnight gig. Are any keen Cancer Bats fans up to the challenge of making all six?
Cancer Bats’ fourth album ‘Dead Set on Living’, the follow-up to 2010’s ‘Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones’, is due for release sometime this spring and, while the official date has yet to be confirmed, this latest announcement suggests that we can expect the album to appear sometime around 21st April. After the uncompromising brutality of the band’s previous three albums, fans should probably expect something slightly different this time around, going by recent interviews. In one particular chat with Spinner, for example, vocalist Liam Cormier spoke about some of the band’s more unlikely influences: “In a lot of ways we get really inspired by non-metal bands. For me, I find I really like looking at other things because I just don't want to make a traditional hardcore record, lyrically. So for me, I listen to a lot of indie rock and I've been getting super psyched on a lot of that, like the new 'Helplessness Blues' by Fleet Foxes.”
However, for anyone concerned that Cancer Bats might be heading into some kind of unwelcome indie direction, Cormier went on to admit that fans shouldn’t expect anything too different: “I don't want to make this record be us trying to be Muse, or us trying to extend ourselves into other things, like me trying to do clean singing parts so we can get played on the radio. When you hear bands that you love try shit like that, it's just such a bum-out.”
Wanna hear more? Check out this ‘Dead Set on Living’ teaser…
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