Yard Act announce one-off headline present at Blackpool Tower
Yard Act have introduced a one-off headline present at Blackpool Tower for later this yr. Discover all the main points beneath.
The Leeds band are scheduled to play quite a few UK and European festivals this summer season together with Isle Of Wight, Bearded Idea, Reside At Leeds: In The Park, Inexperienced Man and Pukkelpop.
They’ll additionally play a giant bill-topping gig at Queen’s Park Area in Glasgow as a part of the Massive Nights Out 2025 collection.
To heat up for the forthcoming appearances, Yard Act will head to the seaside for their very own live performance in Blackpool, Lancashire on Wednesday Could 21.
“So, yeah… it should’ve been 2025… and we um… we didn’t usually go to Blackpool to play gigs… normally we simply went as soon as to help Foals on the Empress Ballroom,” mentioned frontman James Smith.
“However for some cause this yr we’d booked a warm-up gig at Blackpool Tower um…”
Tickets for the upcoming Blackpool Tower present go on normal sale at 10am GMT this Friday (March 28) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, followers can entry a pre-sale on the identical time on Wednesday (26) by signing up here.
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Yard Act launched their second and newest studio album, ‘The place’s My Utopia?’, in March 2024.
In a four-star evaluation, NME mentioned the challenge “marks an outlandish but assertive second chapter for Yard Act, going toe-to-toe with the peculiar world that we discover ourselves in”.
Talking to NME in regards to the file in October 2023, Smith defined that it was “about hope and perseverance”.
“A variety of what we’ve at all times accomplished has been rooted in the place society is at and a touch upon the instances, however it’s extra common,” he continued. “Human beings have at all times been pushed by our ambitions.
“In a world the place there’s at present supermarkets the place you may get meals from and homes you’ll be able to reside in, as soon as we’ve acquired the fundamentals lined our minds aspire for different issues our minds assume are essential as a result of we’re not content material in simply being animals.”
Yard Act launched into a UK and European tour final yr in help of the album. The trek included a present on the Eventim Apollo in London. In a four-star evaluation of that efficiency, NME praised the band’s “showmanship for a boisterous tour finale”.