Metronomy by Gregoire Alexandre
It’s ten years since Metronomy released The English Riviera.
Metronomy have unveiled a remix by MGMT of their track The Look to go with details of an expanded UK and European tour for next year.
The anniversary edition of the band’s 2011 LP is arriving on April 30th with six previously unreleased bonus cuts, this new version of The Look providing fans with an additional treat.
“I played around with it a little, hit a wall and thought ‘it’s not really Metronomy, is it’,” Joe Mount has said. “Four months later, we finished recording The Look at the Smokehouse in London.
“We quite liked it, but that was about it. Then I distinctly remember the journalist Dave Simpson asking me about the song after we performed it for the first time at the Leeds Cockpit in January 2011. That was probably the moment I realised it had something about it.”
“I still don’t know precisely what that something is, but when we perform The Look live and I hear thousands of people chanting the bit that gets stuck in your head back at me, der-de-der-der, it often brings a tear to my eye. It really is amazing what that seaside song and this whole album has done for Metronomy.”
Tour dates:
March 2022
1 – Hard Club, Porto, Portugal
2 – Coliseu de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
4 – La Riviera, Madrid, Spain
5 – Sala Moon, Valencia, Spain
6 – Razzmatazz 1, Barcelona, Spain
8 – Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
9 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
10 – Kaufleuten, Zurich, Switzerland
11 – Neue Theaterfabrik – Munich, Germany
13 – Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia
14 – Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
15 – Akvárium Klub, Budapest, Hungary
17 – Reithalle Strasse E, Dresden, Germany
18 – Progresja, Warsaw, Poland
19,20 – Tama, Poznan, Poland
22 – Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
23 – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
25 – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
26 – Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany
28 – Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
29 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
31 – Den Atelier, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
April 2022
1 – La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
3 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
4 – Zénith Arena, Lille, France
5 – Le Liberté, Rennes, France
6 – Le Zenith, Paris, France
8 – Zénith Sud, Montpellier, France
10 – Zorlu PAC, Istanbul, Turkey
22 – Barrowlands, Glasgow, UK
23 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
24 – Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK
26 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
27 – O2 Academy, Liverpool, UK
28 – Academy, Manchester, UK
30 – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
May 2022
1 – Tramshed, Cardiff, UK
3 – The Foundry, Torquay, UK
4 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
5 – O2 Academy, Oxford, UK
7 – Alexandra Palace, London, UK