Enter Shikari Share New Track ‘Bloodshot’

Enter Shikari have shared their latest track ‘Bloodshot’, the third single to be taken from their highly-anticipated forthcoming album A Kiss For The Whole World, which will be released on 21st April via SO Recordings / Ambush Reality.

Check out the track, ‘Bloodshot’ via the following link.

‘Bloodshot’ follows recent singles ‘(pls) set me on fire’ and ‘It Hurts’, both of which were instantly embraced with open arms by fans old and new, and received their first live outings during the band’s sensational run of sold-out February residency shows in the UK. For Enter Shikari, rejuvenation, resilience and resurrection have been on the agenda as they introduce new music to the world. However, in the arrival of ‘Bloodshot’ the band have more questions to pose themselves, and us.

Lead vocalist and producer Rou Reynolds explains:

“Every day, I seem to be asking myself “Is this article biased?”, “is this claim true?”, “Should I be more furious about this issue? Or less furious?”, “Am I being manipulated? Provoked? Radicalised by my own ‘tribe’?.

Bloodshot is about how hard it is to find truth, and how easy it is to stop thinking for yourself and simply repeat your ‘team’s’ mantras.

Everyone’s so fucking angry with everyone else and it’s exhausting. It seems like social media’s main purpose these days is to hypnotise us to hate”.

Enter Shikari Release New Track, ‘It Hurts’

Enter Shikari have shared ‘It Hurts’, the second single to be taken from their highly-anticipated forthcoming album A Kiss For The Whole World, which will be released on 21st April via SO Recordings / Ambush Reality.
 
‘It Hurts’ follows January’s earth-shaking lead single ‘(pls) set me on fire’. It brings with it a call to switch up our worldview and reassess the ways in which we judge ourselves – all in a flurry of race-to-the-finish-line intensity. Lead vocalist and producer Rou Reynolds explains:
 
“It Hurts came to me in a dream. Literally. Melody, chords, and fully-formulated chorus were all part of a dream that, thankfully, remained with me when I woke up. I was hiding under the duvet at 3AM, singing it into my phone, much to the bewilderment of my girlfriend.
 
Lyrically, It Hurts is about perseverance, and the importance of reframing failure as a fruitful and, in fact, pivotal route to progress. Society teaches us we should avoid and criticise failure, when defeat and honest mistakes can actually present us with insights that light our way forward.
 
In reality, we should be taught that simply to try makes us more than enough.”
 
Pre-order A Kiss For The Whole World here.
 
 Enter Shikari also announced a run of very special album release shows across Europe and the US, as well as special 2023 UK residency shows to take place through Feb, March and April. Many of the pre-sale tickets sold-out in a matter of seconds. Only a few now remain.
 
Reynolds explains their thinking behind the residency shows: “It’s hard to do anything interesting with live shows today. We wanted to do something different. We’re going to become a local band to five major cities in the UK. It’s going to be interesting to see how the shows evolve every time we return.”

Feb 15 – HERE at Outernet, London, UK – SOLD OUT
Feb 16 – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Feb 17 – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, UK – SOLD OUT
Feb 19 – SWX, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Feb 20 – St Luke’s, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Mar 14 – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Mar 15 – St Luke’s, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Mar 16 – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, UK
Mar 17 – HERE at Outernet, London, UK – SOLD OUT
Mar 18 – SWX, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Apr 13 – St Luke’s, Glasgow, UK – SOLD OUT
Apr 14 – New Century Hall, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT
Apr 15 – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, UK
Apr 16 – SWX, Bristol, UK – SOLD OUT
Apr 17 – HERE at Outernet, London, UK – SOLD OUT

Listen to ‘It Hurts’ below.

Enter Shikari Announce New Record, ‘A Kiss For The Whole World’

Enter Shikari have recently announced their highly anticipated new album, A Kiss For The Whole World, set to be released on 21^st April via SO Recordings / Ambush Reality.

Hear ‘(pls) set me on fire’ here

Pre-order A Kiss For The Whole World here.

Limited formats of the new album come packaged with the Live From Alexandra Palace 3 album & DVD, recorded live in December 2021 at the band’s sold out 10,000 capacity London show.
 
As the calendar now signals three years since Enter Shikari last released an album – their UK #2 charting album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible – it is useful to think back to the final question the band last posed fans: “Is this a new beginning? / Or are we close to the end?” Little could they know just how close to the end things would end up feeling as the events of the early ‘20s dimmed the light in the furnace of their live juggernaut, and connection to their fans. “At the time it felt like we ourselves, as musicians, were experiencing the death of our band,” says lead vocalist and keyboardist Rou Reynolds.
 
Unsurprisingly, the key in the band’s ignition came in the form of a live show as they headlined the Download Festival Pilot in front of 10,000 fans. Where not a single new word flowed from the pen of Reynolds in the two years prior, a realisation was born that would come to define the band’s seventh LP: “I just didn’t realise that the human and physical connection to other people were so central to how I write,” he says. Enter Shikari isn’t just four people – it’s hundreds of thousands.
 
As new single ‘(pls) set me on fire’ heralds the next stage in the band’s evolution, the first words we hear from Enter Shikari 2.0 don’t come in the form of a question this time, but a command: “Please set me on fire”. In other words, ignite the spark inside us and set us free. This may be a new Enter Shikari but they’ve lost nothing in their flair for bold opening gambits.
 
Reynolds comments on the single’s conception: “Honestly, I thought I was f*****. I’ve never felt so detached from my soul, my purpose, my f****** spirit. I didn’t write music for almost two years. The longest I’d gone before that was two weeks. I was broken. It’s almost as if my brain had asked: “What is the point in music if it cannot be shared? What is the point in writing music if it’s not to be experienced with others?” and then promptly switched itself off. ‘(pls) set me on fire’ grew out of that desperation. This song is a projectile vomit of positive energy. Every emotion trapped inside me for two years, finally set free.”

First Bands Announced For Slam Dunk Festival 2023

After a whirlwind summer, it’s time to get excited to see who’ll be playing around the UK in 2023.

This brings us to Slam Dunk Festival which today kicked off a holy hell what the actual fu** responses as they have announced an eye watering 22 bands including run-on shows from The Academy Is as well as Kids In Glass Houses alongside sets from Enter Shikari and The Offspring and loads more.

Check out he announcement video below.

#SDF23 pic.twitter.com/ZhYXMyWZLZ

— Slam Dunk Festival (@SlamDunkMusic) August 30, 2022

Check out the full list of bands below.

Enter Shikari
The Offspring
Billy Talent
Four Year Strong
Trash Boat
Bowling For Soup
Less Than Jake
Zebrahead
Creeper
Holding Absence
Malevolence
Fit For A King
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
Real Friends
Grayscale
NOAHFINNCE
Destroy Boys
Maggie Lindemann
Charlotte Sands
girlfriends
Kids In Glass Houses (‘Smart Casual’ 15 years anniversary celebration)
The Academy Is…

Slam Dunk Festival will take play May 2023 on 27th at Hatfield Park and Temple Newsam Park, Leeds on the 28th.

Here’s the Festival poster!

Enter Shikari Announce Re-Scheduled Tour Dates To Late 2021 & Early 2022

Enter Shikari have announced their rescheduled tour dates to take place at late 2021 and early 2022.

The band were first due to head out in support of their new album ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’ in October, November and December 2020, and then May, June, September 2021 – and now they’ve pushed back once more.

Dinosaur Pile-Up and Nova Twins will be the supporting artists for the tour.

Here are the tour dates.

December 2021

4th – Alexandra Palace, London

5th – O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester

7th – Engine Shed, Lincoln

8th – Asylum, Hull

9th – O2 Academy, Bristol

11th – Mountford Hall, Liverpool

12th – O2 Academy, Leeds

13th – Usher Hall, Edinburgh

15th – O2 Academy, Birmingham

16th – Great Hall, Cardiff – SOLD OUT

17th – O2 Guildhall, Southampton

19th – Town Hall, Middlesbrough

20th – Rock City, Nottingham – SOLD OUT

21st – Rock City, Nottingham – SOLD OUT

Bullet For My Valentine, Architects, Twin Atlantic And More Are A Part Of A New Charity Raffle

The Teenage Cancer Trust has announced the details of a Christmas Raffle with some huge bands involved.

Bring Me The Horizon, Architects, Skindred and more are in the names whom have donated prizes to the Christmas Rocks giveaway which will be personalised for the winnders.

If you enter for Enter Shikari you have a chance to win a personalised copy of one of the band’s records on vinyl.

The raffle runs from 17th December 2020 to 11.59 January 3rd 2021. There’s a minimum £5 per ticket that you buy.

All the details are available via the following link.

We have a festive treat for you!

Some of your favourite ROCK bands have one-of-a-kind prizes just for you! Each ticket is £5 and all proceeds go to Teenage Cancer Trust. Check it out: https://t.co/YieQIVb4Cn pic.twitter.com/DpGXot2oIY

— Teenage Cancer Trust (@TeenageCancer) December 17, 2020

Enter shikari Are Auctioning Off A Stage-Worn Tie From ‘The Spark’ Era For Charity

Enter Shikari achieved a lot of things during their ‘The Spark’ era. One of these things was their stage outfits. They looked amazing every time they played.

One of the ties that the band wore on stage is being auctioned off for Cahonas, which is a Scottish charity committed to raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of Testicular Cancer.

At the time of writing, it currently stands at £169.30 with 4 days and 21 hours remaining in the auction.

This is what it will look along the lines of.

You can place a bid on the item via the following here.

More Artists Have Been Added to Five4Five FEst

Five4Five festival might need a new name.

It’s a new online festival which is set to take place this weekend coming but now, more artists have been added to the lineup.

Yonaka, Trash Boat, Roam, Wargasm, Rob Lynch and Lacey are all now set to play this weekend alongside Enter Shikari, Don Boco, Lizzy Farrall and more.

Five4Five is set to be streamed over on the festivals Facebook page from 7.30PM on May 15th and 16th. All sets are completely free to watch but you’re encouraged to donate £5 via a link which will be provided. All the profits from the streams will be donated to the NHS Charities Together.

You can visit the Facebook page via the following link.

Five4Five Fest Announces Lineup

Online festivals are surely becoming the norm in 2020 but could they become the new normal? Nevertheless, the rock community is getting its hands in as Five4Five fest is confirming it’s full lineup.

The reason it’s being called Five4Five fest though? 10 bands in total over the two days on May 15th and 16th.

And now we have the full lineup.

 

Friday 15th May 2020

Don Broco

Deaf Havana Hot Milk

Stay Free

Lizzy Farrall

 

Saturday 16th May 2020

Enter Shikari

As It Is

Fatherson

The Dangerous Summer

Tigress

 

Tickets to watch are free of charge, but attendees are encouraged to donate £5 which will go towards the NHS to help them during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. A link will be provided at the time of the festival for the people to submit their donation.

Along with the performances, prizes are to be won on each date.

Enter Shikari & Don Broco Announced For New Online Festival

Five4Five Fest is a brand new online music festival which is set to go ahead on May 15th and 16th and they’ve got some great headliners.

Both Don Broco and Enter Shikari will be playing where ten bands across the two days will play sets that are streamed on the festivals Facebook page.

The sets will range from full band to solo as well as reimagined performances.

It’s all free to watch but those who are watching the festival will be encouraged to donate, with profits going to NHS Charities Together.