Desperate Journalist Announce Second Album 'Grow Up' And UK Shows
Wednesday, 04 January 2017
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Mathew Schwartz
Desperate Journalist will release their sophomore album this spring.
The London post-punks will put out 'Grow Up' on March 24, following which they will play a run of UK shows, calling in Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow and Birmingham, before finishing things up at the Scala in London on April 6. Tickets are on sale now.
Meanwhile, check out their new single, Resolution, which will be released on February 24 via Fierce Panda Records, below. Discussing it, singer Jo Bevan said:
“The song was written in a hotel room after a New Year’s Eve party when I was feeling particularly peculiar, unable to drink and on a lot of codeine. NYE is obviously an unusually heightened time to feel completely out of the loop with a group and when that happens to me, like everything else I can't really cope with, I romanticise it into filmic fragments.
The countdown to midnight was dramatized massively by the band we were watching (as is standard), and I couldn't escape fixating on teenage thoughts like: how many cliched repetitive conversations/Fun Times you have with people on Significant Days of the Year, how emotionally awkward the midnight kiss was for so many of us, the people making big pointless romantic gestures, and the general warm frenzy of everyone else from the weird cold bubble of where I was. So broadly speaking, the song is about being detached and overstimulated.”
Prior to the new record's release the band have also lined up shows in Derby, Stowmarket and Manchester on January 28, February 11 and 25, respectively.
Desperate Journalist Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Sat January 28 2017 - DERBY Hairy Dog
Sat February 11 2017 - STOWMARKET John Peel Centre
Sat February 25 2017 - MANCHESTER Live Room
Wed March 29 2017 - BRISTOL Louisiana
Thu March 30 2017 - SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Fri March 31 2017 - GLASGOW Nice n' Sleazy
Sat April 01 2017 - BIRMINGHAM Sunflower Lounge
Thu April 06 2017 - LONDON Scala
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