Alt-J @ Leeds Festival (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Alt-J have added UK shows in Brighton, Margate, Bournemouth, Weston-super-Mare and Blackpool to their Relaxer touring.
The dates are detailed below and are confirmed as we enter the week of release for the band’s third studio LP. It was previewed again last week with Adeline whose genesis, as NME reports, was explained by Gus Unger-Hamilton: “It initially started to be written in Australia, and was one of the ones we’d do in soundcheck quite a lot – just like playing with little bits of it and trying it out, trying to remember what was good with recordings and voice memos,” he said.
“Then we’d come back to it time and time again, and when we came back to the UK to make album number three, we knew ‘Adeline’ was going to be a song that would be on that record. So we got together, unwrapped all of our ideas and looked at what we had – and then we put it all together.”
UK tour dates:
September
4 – Brighton, Centre
5 – Dreamland, Margate
6 – O2 Academy, Bournemouth
8 – Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare
9 – Empress Ballroom, Blackpool