The Maccabees (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever)
The Maccabees will continue to dust off their live cobwebs with a show in Sheffield next month.
The band have been toiling away on a new album for some time now, but did start to make a return to the live scene towards the end of last year supporting Kasabian on a UK arena tour, and continued in December with a visit to the Norwich Arts Centre in celebration of its crowning as ‘Britain’s Best Small Venue’ by NME.
Now, they’ve been on Twitter to announce a gig at the Sheffield Leadmill on February 21st. It’s described as a ‘warm-up show’, presumably for a more comprehensive tour which is in the works.
Speaking to NME before Christmas, The Maccabees finally declared their follow-up to 2012’s excellent ‘Given To The Wild‘ to be close to completion – just about 18 months after they first started.
“It feels more self-assured,” frontman Orlando Weeks said. “I feel confident in it – I feel confident singing it. I feel like it’s got a really nice mix of all of our different inputs, and that’s the thing that takes us longest to get our heads around, trying to accommodate all of those different tastes.”
Hi all- we’re playing a warmup show on Sat Feb 21 at Sheffield Leadmill. On sale Fri 9am from http://t.co/d7fBjm6cmi pic.twitter.com/pamgy1Vyxo
— The Maccabees (@themaccabees) January 20, 2015