Alt-J have added more shows to their 2022 UK and Ireland headline tour, with extra dates in London and Dublin announced.
The trio will now play two shows at Londonās O2 Academy Brixton on May 19 and the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on May 23 as part of their ‘The Dream’ Tour. Tickets are on sale now.
The band will be hitting the road in support of fourth album āThe Dreamā which is out February 11, 2022. Check out the tour dates below.
Alt-J will play:
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7 – Glasgow, Barrowland Ballroom
9 – Leeds, O2 Academy
13 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
18 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
19 – London, O2 Academy Brixton *just added*
22 – Dublin, Olympia Theatre
23 – Dublin, Olympia Theatre *just added*
25 – Belfast, The Telegraph Building
27 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
We've added extra London and Dublin dates to our UK and Ireland tour, availableĀ on the link here: https://t.co/BAbKVPrhYO pic.twitter.com/UUp3g7vcQp
— Ī (alt-J) (@alt_J) November 12, 2021
Alt-J have already released a couple of singles from the record, with āU&MEā coming in September and āGet Betterā being released last week.
Speaking about the record, frontman Joe Newman explained how itās been influenced by āa lot of harrowing thingsā that have happened to the group.
During the interview, Newman explained how one unreleased track, āLosing My Mindā, sees him delving into the mind of a serial killer.
āI try to avoid talking about it too much, but a friend of mineās sister was murdered,ā he explained. āIt was really a horrible thing to go through as a group of friends, but I think Iāve always been kind of drawn to that in some kind of weird, traumatic way.ā
Elsewhere āU&MEā is about āhaving a good time, togetherness, and the feeling in life that nothing could be any better than it is right nowā while āGet Betterā is about āthe true horrors of what COVID-19 could doā.
Alt-J’s previous album ‘Relaxer‘ was released in 2017 and a remix version followed in 2018.
Earlier this year, the band formed part of an “isolation choir” to raise money for the Help Musicians charity alongside London-based vocal collectiveĀ Shards.
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