JETS PROPELLED

Today brings the release of the video to accompany ‘A Billion Heartbeats’, the most recent single added to the well-equipped belt of Mystery Jets. Watch here. The single had its first play as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World on Radio 1 last month and has since seen masses of support.

The single is taken from the bands upcoming album ‘A Billion Heartbeats’, due for release on 3^rd April. The album was previously postponed due to the ill health of lead singer, Blaine Harrison. ‘A Billion Heartbeats’ as an album achieves a balance of passion, fear and hope. Amid the colourful cavalcade of rich harmonies, heavy guitars and rallying cries, the album’s essential message – about personal responsibility, and the power in becoming engaged. In a sense, it’s not just their “state of the nation” record but their “state of a generation” record too.

The new video begins with the band featured in Trafalgar Square, a place of great importance to Blaine as he previously lived in a property guardian right around the corner from the huge historical monument and tourist attraction. It was during 2017 he witnessed an entire year of protests here. It was from here that Mystery Jets’ sixth long player, ‘A Billion Heartbeats‘, was born. Shots of the monument brought into the picturesque scene of the countryside provides an atmospheric juxtaposition.

We increasingly hear from musicians that music should be an escape these days – that there’s enough suffering in the world, enough misery on the news, without writings songs about it too. A Billion Heartbeats makes all that sound like a bit of a cop-out. These are songs of protest that get the heart racing in joy; high on hope, and serious in their message. Proof, basically, that music speaks louder than words.

The band recently announced their rescheduled 2020 tour dates which are as follows:

10^th April – Academy 2 – Manchester
11^th April – Brewery Arts Centre – Kendal
13^th April – The Wardrobe – Leeds
14^th April – Oran Mor – Glasgow
16^th April – The Caves – Edinburgh
17^th – The Riverside – Newcastle
19^th April – The Welly – Hull
20^th April – O2 Academy 2 – Leicester
22^nd April – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
24^th April – Trinity – Bristol
25^th April – The Mill – Birmingham
27^th April – O2 Academy – Oxford
29^th April – Concorde 2 – Brighton
01^st May – Junction – Cambridge

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