'This Feeling' 'Alive' Tour Takes Up And Coming Bands On UK Tour

'This Feeling offer one of the few consistent platforms for up and coming bands. If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll see them at This Feeling first. Come the revolution they will be crowned Kings. Long live This Feeling.' Carl Barat

'We are living in a world where guitar music has been marginalised so what This Feeling is doing at the moment is vital. This Feeling is the best club in The UK for future Rock and Roll stars. They believe in the power of guitar music and when Rock and Roll makes it’s glorious comeback you can bet your arse you will have heard it first at This Feeling' Noel Gallagher

'Single-handedly flying the flag for new British guitar music' Serge Pizzorno

Representing the very best of the new classic British guitar bands 'Alive' is This Feeling’s biggest national tour in its 11 year history. The club night has organically become the nation's No.1 live new music event and now has stages at major festivals inc Reading and Isle of Wight but the ethos remains the same; put on bands we love and back them to the hilt.

We've been told for years guitar music's dead, where's the next big band gonna come from? They're here, right here, right now. Years of building an authentic underground scene are coming to a head...THREE of the most exciting new prospects in the world of indie rock will tour together for the very first time in October 2017 PLUS the cream of the local crop in each city.

“It’s us against prime time and all that shit..." Tom Newman (The Shimmer Band)...

The line-up includes euphoric Verve/Kasabian sorts The Shimmer Band, Bang Bang Romeo who sound like a hard-edged Fleetwood Mac plus explosive Libs-esque indie hitmakers Blackwaters.

THE SHIMMER BAND 'FREEDOM' : https://youtu.be/GXOrzRPWfiI
BANG BANG ROMEO 'CHEMICAL' : https://youtu.be/rq_sDA1EM3Q
BLACKWATERS 'FUCK YEAH!' : https://youtu.be/Cm1Mj8Vo30Q

THIS FEELING 'ALIVE' SPOTIFY PLAY-LIST : https://open.spotify.com/user/thisfeelinghq/playlist/4NvjaWacAV7x6yZ8rgyns9

The bands on the “Alive” tour emerged from playing This Feeling club nights and festival stages – a well-known hang out for the rockstars such as the Gallagher brothers, Kasabian, and The Libertines. Quickly gathering a reputation, their shared dedication to the scene, and ability to send intimate venues into frenzy means they’ve been handpicked by This Feeling.

The tour will represent the very best in British indie guitar music in 2017 and it’s This Feeling’s biggest national tour in its 10 year history – the tour marks the moment that years of building an underground scene comes to a head and national domination begins. This is the start of a resurgence in uncompromising guitar music.

The Shimmer Band, BANG BANG ROMEO,BlackWaters plus these special guests in each city...

Oct 2 Cardiff Glee Club w/ Chapel Row
Oct 3 Birmingham o2 institute 2 w/ The Assist
Oct 5 York Fibbers w/ SHEAFS
Oct 6 Glasgow o2 ABC2 w/ Vida
Oct 8 Manchester Club Academy 2 w/ Proletariat.
Oct 9 Leeds Wardrobe w/ The Strawberries
Oct 10 Hull Fruit Space w/ Mint
Oct 11 Nottingham Glee Club w/ The Ruffs
Oct 13 Sheffield Plug w/ Liberty Ship
Oct 14 London Electric Ballroom w/ Paves
Oct 15 Brighton Patterns w/ SONS

Tickets: www.thisfeeling.co.uk

A BIT ABOUT THE BANDS...

THE SHIMMER BAND (all shows)

The Shimmer Band have only released three singles so far (‘Freedom’, ‘Sunkick’, ‘Jacknife and the Death Call’) but they’ve gained such a huge following in so little time doing serious damage at this summer's festivals. The band make soaring euphoric electronica-infused indie with nods to late '90s Verve, U2, Doves and Kasabian. Arenas await these lot but academy’s will get their roof well and truly blown off come October.

BANG BANG ROMEO (all shows)

Bang Bang Romeo’s song ‘Johannesburg’ is the perfect introduction to rising Doncaster four-piece guitar band. A sound layered Hammond, brass, Ennio Morricone-esque warbly reverb and overarching magnetism of singer Lead singer Anastasia Walker comes across like Shirley Bassey if she’s grown up on a diet of The Last Shadow Puppets, The National, and Fleetwood Mac. Anthemic, stadium ready new single 'Chemical' is out now.

BLACKWATERS (all shows)

Formed at University in Guildford three years ago, indie rockers Blackwaters make clever, raw indie punk and are a perfect outfit to sit beside bands like The Libertines. The band currently only have a handful of singles online and with their Dead Kennedys-esque energy and Essex-raised singer Maximillion Tanner’s Jamie T-esque ear for pop hooks, the band are all set to explode.

PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS...

YVES (Bristol)
Catchy, infectious guitar driven melodies with a choruses so big they demand to be belted out at the top of ones voice (after only one listen). If you’re a fan of Catfish and The Bottlemen, you’ll love 'em.

CHAPEL ROW (Cardiff)

Thunderous bass lines, sky scraping guitars, infectious melodies wrapped around in your face vocals. One of Cardiff's best new Rock n Roll bands are coming your way.

THE ASSIST (Birmingham)
 Wolverhampton wonders The Assist new single “Wonderful’ is a sumptuous slice of indie dance rock. Following the success of their debut EP ‘Trouble’ which charted top 20 in the alt iTunes chart last year and rapturously received festival sets at Isle of Wight, TRNSMT and Reading this year, these boys are ones to watch.

SHEAFS (York)
Raucous in yer face punk rock reminiscent of (whisper it) the Arctic Monkeys. Seriously, that great. One of the stars of this summer's festival circuit, judging by the reaction (nuts) it's when ,not if, they step up to the main stages.

VIDA (Glasgow)
Vida’s previous single, the Oasis/Coral-esque ‘Fade Away’ was one of our favourite tunes of last year. The Hot Scots have followed it up with another beauty, the Steve Cradock (Ocean Colour Scene / Weller) produced current single ‘Where We Came From’. Make no mistake Vida wear their influences loud and proud but this is no Oasis/Ocean Colour Scene tribute act, these boys are the real deal.

PROLETARIAT (Manchester)
Proletariat have been together less than a year but have sold out every Manchester show they’ve played, ripped up Y Not and Tramlines with an electricity and chemistry well beyond their years AND been asked to support Baby Strange and Cabbage on tour. There’s no messing about, Proletariat are direct, honest and straight to the point just like new single ‘Ignorance’, a snarling, frenzied riposte