English Teacher playing Neighbourhood Weekender 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
English Teacher have also announced their biggest headline UK tour to-date.
English Teacher have signed to Island Records and marked the news with the release of their latest track The World’s Biggest Paving Slab.
“I wrote and recorded the demo in my bedroom in one day, during my final year of university in 2018,” Lily Fontaine said.
Moving to a city for university forced me to reflect on how my experience of growing up in and around Pendle, how witnessing the social, economic and political issues that exist around there in juxtaposition with the beauty of the landscape and the characters that live within in it, has shaped me into the artist and person that I am.
“These semi-rural stories leak into most of my writing; in particular, this song tackles delusions of grandeur and inferiority from the perspective of a small town’s local celebrities. It’s split into two halves.”
Tour dates:
August
20 MS Dockville Festival, Hamburg, Germany
25 Leeds Festival
27 Reading Festival
October
8 District, Liverpool
21 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
22 McChuills, Glasgow
23 Cluny 2, Newcastle
24 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
26 Scala, London
27 The Louisiana, Bristol
28- Heartbreakers, Southampton
29 The Hope & Ruin, Brighton
31 Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
November
1 Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
