Enter Shikari scored their first No.1 on the Official UK Albums Chart with ‘A Kiss for the Whole World’ – and they start their biggest ever tour of UK arenas in Leeds on 9 February.
Praise for Enter Shikari’s album A Kiss for the Whole World:
“Enter Shikari reassert their credentials as one of the UK’s most important rock bands.” – Upset ★★★★★
“A Kiss For The Whole World might just be its authors’ finest work yet. Rooted in the present, somehow it is still the sound of the future.” – Louder ★★★★½
“These are anthems of liberation for what seems an eternal uncertainty that we live in.” – Clash ★★★★
“There is an explosive exuberance at the heart of Enter Shikari’s superb seventh album.” – Kerrang! ★★★★
“A Kiss For The Whole World proves Enter Shikari are capable of nothing but pure, political, social, and ambitious fire” – The Line of Best Fit ★★★★
“As hopeful as they’ve ever sounded” – NME ★★★★
“Here is an album that sees Shikari proving exactly why they’ve carved their own place in UK music royalty.” – Rolling Stone UK ★★★★
“A smacker” – Classic Rock
“When it comes to combining rave, metal and pop craftsmanship in songs that come with self-help messages and moral guidelines, nobody beats [Enter Shikari]” – The Times
Enter Shikari have long been noted for their gripping live shows and their ability to hold an audience in the palm of their hands. Multiple ‘Best Live Band’ award wins from the likes of the Kerrang! Awards, AIM Awards and Heavy Music Awards – as well as a recent run of residency shows in the UK, Europe, US and Japan that sold out in minutes – say all that needs to be said about what the band’s live connection means to their legions of fans worldwide. And so with new album A Kiss for the Whole World giving them their first UK #1 album, the band have gone to the creative well yet again to devise the most thrilling and unique iteration of what the Enter Shikari live experience can be. Taking on some of the biggest stages they have ever played, Enter Shikari level up their live game once again.
It is this acknowledgement of the community and culture surrounding live music – and all that it has given to the band and their fans through the course of the last 20 years – that drives Enter Shikari to ceaselessly ramp up efforts to support them.
Rou Reynolds, Lead Singer and Producer: “Grassroots music venues in the UK are under existential threat. Every time we lose another one we lose a vital part of our culture. Bigger venues that benefit from the productive pipeline that grassroots venues provide need to support these smaller venues, as do the artists that have come up through them. Enter Shikari stands with Music Venue Trust in their efforts to bring more solidity and community to our brilliant UK live music scene”.
Joining the band on the tour will be a pair of artists established and emerging: Fever 333 and Noahfinnce. Enter Shikari first met Fever 333 vocalist Jason Aalon Butler when they took his former band, LetLive, on tour in Europe in 2011, and Noahfinnce became a firm friend when he supported the band on the first leg of the UK residency shows in February 2023.
Rou: “We’ve known [Fever 333 lead singer] Jason for years now and have toured much of the world together. I think we always thought that it’d be great to collaborate on something when the right opportunity surfaced. This track certainly felt right. It required a thoughtful intensity, which Jason provides effortlessly in whatever he sets his mind to. We can’t wait to take Fever 333 out on our UK and Europe tour, it’s been too long since we shared a stage together. Losing My Grip oscillates between two of our favourite and foundational genre influences; Drum and Bass and hardcore punk. Lyrically, it’s about the immense power that our species now wields, and the pressure and weight that that adds to our lives. We’re the only species capable of destroying itself (and all others) completely and, increasingly, it appears as though we’re only too willing. Losing My Grip is about the fight to stay sane whilst living in a deeply and dangerously flawed system.“
Fever 333 lead singer Jason Butler adds:
“I’ve always been a fan of Enter Shikari. Yes, them as a band, but moreover, them as people. Yes, what they do, but even more so how they do it. They are an entity in their own lane and I’m honoured to have had an opportunity to swerve in it for a second and very excited to be rockin’ with them on this upcoming tour. WE ARE GODS.”
Fri 09 Feb – First Direct Arena, Leeds, UK
Sat 10 Feb – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK
Mon 12 Feb – O2 Academy, Edinburgh, UK
Wed 14 Feb – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
Thu 15 Feb – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
Fri 16 Feb – International Arena, Cardiff, UK
Sat 17 Feb – OVO Arena Wembley, London, UK
Tickets for Leeds First Direct Arena on 9 February here.
Enter Shikari will donate £1 of each ticket sale to Music Venue Trust in support of grassroots music venues in each city on the tour.
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