UK punks Benefits have announced a tour of the UK and Europe for the autumn. The band has written on Instagram that they are excited to be touring for the first time since they released their debut album early last year and will be playing in venues they have never played in before. They are encouraging their fans to come along and share in the experience.
The band said that they will be bringing the electronic radge to Huddersfield, Lancaster, Aberdeen, Stirling, Preston, Utrecht, Ostend, Margate and Newport for the first time. They will also be returning to cities they have played before such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Southampton, Brighton, and London. Fans of the band are urged to get involved and share the joy and anger that comes with their music.
Tickets will be available on the band’s website from 10 am BST this Friday (July 12). Benefits’ tour will kick off on October 5 in The Parrish, Huddersfield and will come to an end on October 26 at Le Pub in Newport.
Benefits’ debut album, “Nails”, was released last year. Speaking to NME, frontman Kingsley Hall said that the point of the band is to react to current urgencies: political, social or whatever. “We’ve been promoting ‘Nails’, but now we need to knuckle down and get things sorted”, he explained.
In a four-star review of the album, NME wrote: “The beauty of ‘Nails’ is in its raw and primal urgency; it had to be made and heard now, like government-approved sewage being pumped into a river. However, there’s a sense that the band are yet to assume their ultimate form – their power is still brewing. Hell, they’ll get their chance.”
The band have also been vocal about UK politics and were among a slew of artists who reacted online to Labour’s landslide victory in UK General Election
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