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THE ALBUM, MY BIG DAY, OUT OCTOBER 20, 2023 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
FEATURES GUEST APPEARANCES FROM DAMON ALBARN, JAY SOM, NILÜFER YANYA + SPECIAL GUESTS
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Bombay Bicycle Club are pleased to share a third new track from their forthcoming album, My Big Day. “I Want To Be Your Only Pet” is streaming now. It’s a feverish, off-kilter whirlwind that builds harmonic tension with frenzied vocals, and culminates in an explosive hook that will undoubtedly thrive in the band’s live set.
Jack Steadman: “I was just playing around with guitar sounds at soundcheck, and started playing this riff. Jamie must have heard something in it because he got out his phone and started recording. For the next few months he would constantly text me to ask “have you written a song around that riff yet?” So finally I did to stop him harassing me.
“To me it sounds like if Abbey Road era Beatles had a love child with Rated R era Queens of the Stone Age.”
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Bombay Bicycle Club’s sixth album, My Big Day, is released on October 20, 2023 via Arts & Crafts. It was produced by Jack Steadman at The Church Studios in North London and then back at the band’s own studio. It features an eclectic host of guest vocalists that perfectly encapsulates the breadth of the band’s widespread appeal.
Alongside Holly Humberstone, Damon Albarn, Jay Som, and Nilüfer Yanya all lend their voices across the course of the record, with a fifth special guest releasing a song with the band later this summer.
WATCH / SHARE “DIVING” (FT. HOLLY HUMBERSTONE) VISUALIZER HERE
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Jack sits on both sides of the glass for the duration of the record, having previously produced their fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow, and co-production with John Congleton for 2020’s Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. Additional production comes from Paul Epworth on the track “Heaven” and Ben Allen who co-produces “Turn The World On” – the band previously worked with Allen on their hit single “Shuffle” back in 2011.
The record was mixed by Dave Fridmann (renowned for his work with The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT, HAIM).
“KARAOKE TOUR” LIVE DATES:
22nd August – Rough Trade East, London *matinee SOLD OUT
22nd August – Rough Trade East, London SOLD OUT
23rd August – Rough Trade, Nottingham SOLD OUT
24th August – Rough Trade, Bristol SOLD OUT
INSTORE/OUTSTORE UK LIVE DATES:
17th October – Academy 2, Leicester (in association with Truck)
18th October – The Academy, Oxford (In association with Truck)
19th October – PRYZM, London (in association with Banquet Records) *matinee SOLD OUT
19th October – PRYZM, London (in association with Banquet Records) SOLD OUT
20th October – Rough Trade East, London *matinee SOLD OUT
20th October – Rough Trade East, London SOLD OUT
21st October – Pier, Portsmouth (in association with Pie & Vinyl) SOLD OUT
22nd October – The Church, Marlborough (in association with Sound Knowledge) *Matinee acoustic performance SOLD OUT
22nd October – Marble Factory, Bristol (in association with Rough Trade) SOLD OUT
23rd October – The Empire, Coventry (in association with HMV)
24th October – Hangar 34, Liverpool (in association with Jacaranda Records) SOLD OUT
25th October – Liquid Room, Edinburgh (in association with Assai Records) SOLD OUT
26th October – Fat Sam’s, Dundee (in association with Assai Records)
EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR:
13th November – Riviera, Madrid
14th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona
16th November – Alcatraz, Milan
17th November – Tonhalle, Munich
18th November – Docks, Lausanne
19th November – Docks, Hamburg
21st November – Trabendo, Paris
22nd November – Columbiahalle, Berlin
23rd November – Progresja, Warsaw
25th November – De Roma, Antwerp
26th November – Live Music Hall, Cologne
27th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
28th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
MY BIG DAY TRACKLISTING
01 Just A Little More Time
02 I Want To Be Your Only Pet
03 Sleepless (feat. Jay Som)
04 My Big Day
05 Turn The World On
06 Meditate (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
07 Rural Radio Predicts The Rapture
08 Heaven (feat. Damon Albarn)
09 Tekken 2
10 Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone)
11 Onward
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