Arcade Fire announce UK warm-up shows

Arcade Fire will venture to Scunthorpe and Edinburgh to warm-up for their spell of outdoor UK gigs in June and July.

They make the rare trip for a band to Scunthorpe’s Baths Hall on Wednesday, June 7th, and then play the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh the following night ahead of the previously confirmed, and much bigger, shows at Isle Of Wight, Ormeau Park in Belfast, Dublin’s Malahide Castle and Castlefield Bowl in Manchester.

2017 could bring Arcade Fire’s new album too – in one of the last updates drummer Jeremy Gara confirmed they were at the ‘mixing stage’. “All of the songs have been recorded,” he told Red Bull Poland.

“The album should come out this year. At this stage we are still mixing and trying to decide which songs will end up on the record, because we’ve recorded more than we need. But we’re almost finished. I don’t know when it’ll come out, I hope soon.”