After a long break away from the stage, Britpop trio The Boo Radleys have announced their first live dates in 24 years - including a show in Bristol.
The recently-reunited band are coming out of retirement for an intimate UK tour consisting of six shows in October.
Starting their tour at The Lanes in Bristol on October 24 and ending with a celebratory gig at London's Moth Club a week later, the shows will come hot on the heels of the release of a digital, four-track EP set for release in September.
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In July 2021, the band released their first single in 23 years, A Full Syringe and Memories of You. Upon the single's release, it was confirmed that Martin Carr - the band's original guitarist - was not going to take part in the reunion.
The last time the band's original members, Simon 'Sice' Rowbottom, Rob Cieka and Tim Brown appeared on stage together, was at Reading Festival 1997, before heading into the studio to record their final album, Kingsize.
Later this year the band's cult following will get the chance to relive old memories and make new ones while listening to the alternative 80s shoegaze adventurers at the Nelson Street venue. The band’s new EP – including a few unheard tracks, is promised a full, special edition vinyl release later in the year, with details to be confirmed soon.
Speaking about the new tracks, Rowbottom said: “The songs span a rhythmically infused and distortion drenched reminiscence of “one drunken night” - a song about potential loss of life and love and another dealing with the final day of a loving parent, lived in the knowledge of certain separation.
"Deep stuff, yet set within beautiful melodies and toe-tapping rhythms.”
Having originally formed in 1988, The Boo Radley's developed a reputation for adventurous genre-indistinct songwriting.
However, it was not until 1993, when they released their album Giant Steps that their status as a band really took off.
The album placed second to Björk's Debut in the 1993 NME album of the year list and it came first place in the subsequent readers' poll.
The Boo Radleys were famously swept into the slipstream of the mid-nineties, British guitar pop revival with their 1995’s hit, Wake Up Boo, which was lifted from their number one album Wake Up!
Given the success of the track, the band have since been labelled as 'one-hit wonders' by several music publications.
To get tickets to the upcoming shows and to find out more about their upcoming EP, connect with The Boo Radley's on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for the latest band updates.
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