The Hives have confirmed details of a short UK tour beginning in December.
The Swedish band, who will release their new album ‘Lex Hives‘ on June 5th, are due to play five shows across the UK this winter, beginning at the Bristol Academy on December 10th. A gig at the Birmingham Academy will follow a day later, with a sole Scottish date next up at Glasgow’s ABC venue on the 13th. The London Roundhouse will hold the tour’s penultimate show on December 14th before the final date at the Manchester Academy (15th).
Last week, The Hives debuted the video for their comeback single ‘Go Right Ahead‘, which is the first official taster to be taken from ‘Lex Hives‘, the band’s first studio LP since 2007′s ‘Black And White Hives‘.
“There’s no formula, but it definitely sounds like The Hives,” frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist recently told NME on the direction of their new album. “Every good band there is has a certain sound. There are a few songs that couldn’t have been on any of other Hives album, that are sort of a departure, but I’d say that kind of happened on the last time album too. But I’d also say that they couldn’t have been on any other album by anybody else either.”