The National Add New Manchester And London Shows To November UK Tour
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Monday, 15 April 2013 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Due to phenomenal demand, The National have added a second Manchester and London show to their November UK tour.
This follows the announcement that The National will release their sixth studio album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ on 20th May. The new album follows 2010’s critical and commercial success 'High Violet' and is the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career.
After a 22-month tour following the release of 'High Violet' the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, guitarist Aaron Dessner began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realize. Matt confesses, “For the past ten years we’d been chasing something, wanting to prove something. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring High Violet, I think we felt like we’d finally gotten there. Now we could relax—not in terms of our own expectations but we didn’t have to prove our identity any longer.”
The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginnings—when, says Aaron, “our ideas would immediately click with each other. It’s free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another they’re our most simple and human. It just feels like we’ve embraced the chemistry we have.”
In advance of the release, the documentary 'Mistaken For Strangers' will première at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as the festival opener on April 17th. The film, directed by Tom Berninger, follows The National on its biggest tour to date.
The National UK & Ireland Tour Dates are as follows:
Fri June 28th 2013 - Live At The Marquee, Cork
Sat November 9th 2013 - Odyssey Arena, Belfast
Sun November 10th 2013 - The O2 Dublin, Dublin
Mon November 11th 2013 - Manchester Apollo, Manchester
Tue November 12th 2013 - O2 Apollo Manchester, Manchester - NEW DATE
Wed November 13th 2013 - Alexandra Palace, London
Thu November 14th 2013 - Alexandra Palace, London - NEW DATE
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