SQUID have announced FIELDWORKS, their alternative socially distanced UK tour which presents a unique opportunity for fans to witness the band’s creative process first-hand. SQUID have always flourished when fleshing out new material in front of fans, feeding on their energy to create something transcendental. It takes a fearlessly forward-looking band to take this unexpected turn and play exclusively new ideas.
Fans who pre-order the debut album, BRIGHT GREEN FIELD, before 26 April will get the opportunity to experience SQUID at their creative best as they test out new ideas and collaborate with special guests along the way.
The FIELDWORKS tour is an opportunity for fans to experience something different in a number of beautiful and unusual settings before the band head out on their headline UK tour when fans will be able to hear BRIGHT GREEN FIELD live for the first time.
SQUID on the FIELDWORKS tour: “With all this time rooted in one place, we’ve been hard at work writing new music together. We thought that this little tour of places off the beaten track would be a great opportunity to show you all some new tunes, and some REALLY new tunes We can’t wait to play some of these places that aren’t on the traditional touring circuit and to see all your faces.”
Pre-order BRIGHT GREEN FIELD here: https://squid.ffm.to/bright-green-field
Videos for the first two singles from the album are here:
NARRATOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__zmVSREvxY
PADDLING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvisyj5CJg4
FIELDWORKS TOUR
MAY 2021
Wed 19 FALMOUTH Cornish Bank
Thu 20 TOTNES St Mary’s
Sat 22 BRISTOL Cube *
Wed 26 CHIPPENHAM Old Road Tavern *
Fri 28 HULL Adelphi *
JUNE 2021
Tue 01 SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Thu 03 MANCHESTER Stoller Hall *
Sat 05 LONDON Silver Building *
Mon 07 NORWICH Halls
Wed 09 BEXHILL ON SEA De La Warr Pavilion
Sat 12 MARGATE Cliftonville Hall
* Two shows back to back
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD TOUR
SEPTEMBER 2021
Tue 07 BRIGHTON Concorde 2
Thu 09 BRISTOL Marble Factory
Fri 10 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Thu 23 LONDON Printworks
Fri 24 BIRMINGHAM Crossing
Sat 25 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Mon 27 NEWCASTLE NUSU
Tue 28 GLASGOW SWG3
Wed 29 BELFAST Empire
Thu 30 DUBLIN Button Factory
OCTOBER 2021
Sun 03 CARDIFF Tramshed
Mon 04 SOUTHAMPTON The 1865
Tue 05 EXETER Phoenix
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD features field recordings of ringing church bells, tooting bees, microphones swinging from the ceiling orbiting a room of guitar amps, a distorted choir of 30 voices, as well as a horn and string ensemble featuring the likes of Emma-Jean Thackray and Lewis Evans from Black Country, New Road. However, for all the innovative recording techniques, evolutionary leaps, lyrical themes, ideas and narratives that underpin the album, it’s also a joyous and emphatic record. One that marries the uncertainties of the world with a curious sense of exploration as it endlessly twists and turns down unpredictable avenues.
Formed in Brighton SQUID are:
- LOUIS BORLASE (guitar and vocals)
- OLLIE JUDGE (drums and lead vocals)
- ARTHUR LEADBETTER (keyboards, strings and percussion)
- LAURIE NANKIVELL (bass and brass)
- ANTON PEARSON (guitars and vocals)
BRIGHT GREEN FIELD track listing:
- Resolution Square
- G.S.K
- Narrator feat. Martha Skye Murphy
- Boy Racers
- Paddling
- Documentary Filmmaker
- 2010
- The Flyover
- Peel St
- Global Groove
- Pamphlets
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