Originally written by TheBoyDeadly · 5 March 2008
Returning west Londoners The Mystery Jets are making up for lost time in joyous splurges of activity.
Most pressing is the news that new single ‘Young Love’, which features Laura Marling among the usual love and loss, will be available for just 50 pence at 7digital.com this week. Find the video lurking some way below.
The band follow that with a performance at Pure Groove record shop in North London next Monday (10 Mar), rolling up at 6.30 for the free instore. If you’re lucky, they’ll play new album track ‘Two Doors Down’, if not you’ll just have to imagine Squeeze singing Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)’.
Anyway, back to business – a live tour will commence next month in Manchester. No waffle, just lots of dates:
April 13 Manchester Night & Day 14 Carlisle Brickyard 15 Middlesbrough Mims/Cornerhouse 17 Glasgow ABC 18 Edinburgh Hive 19 Newcastle Cluny 21 Sunderland Independent 22 Sheffield Plug 23 Norwich Arts Centre 24 London Scala 26 Exeter Cavern 27 Winchester Railway Inn 28 Oxford Academy 30 Southampton Joiners
May 1 Bournemouth Fire Station 2 Cambridge Barfly 3 Cardiff Ifor Bach 5 Bath Moles 6 Wrexham Central Station 7 Stoke Sugarmill 9 Northampton Soundhaus 10 Derby the Royal 11 Hull the Welly 12 Leeds Brudenell 14 Swindon One-Two Bar 15 Birmingham Barfly 16 Leicester the Charlotte 17 Brighton Digital 24 Bristol Dot to Dot festival 25 Nottingham Dot to Dot festival 26 York Fibbers 27 Liverpool Eat Your Own Ears 28 London Forum Charity Show
And, just because we somehow managed to overlook them when they were announced, the album details. Twenty One is released on the 24th of March, carrying with it the following tracks:
‘Hideaway’ ‘Young Love’ (feat. Laura Marling) ‘Half in Love With Elizabeth’ ‘Flakes’ ‘Veiled in Grey’ ‘Two Doors Down’ ‘MJ’ ‘Umbrellahead’ ‘Hand Me Down’ ‘First to Know’ ‘Behind the Bunhouse’
DrownedinSound’s heard the follow-up to the act’s 2006 debut and ‘ace’ is probably the most appropriate word – an interview with the band will run on the site next week.
Photo: Holly Erskine