The Milk have announced details of a mammoth twenty-eight-date UK tour throughout March. The tour begins in Canterbury on 1 March, and includes the band’s biggest headline show to date at London’s Scala on 4 April.
The Milk are quickly earning a reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting live bands. They were even nominated for Best Breakthrough Artist at the UK Festival Awards this summer, going up against the likes of Bruno Mars and Jessie J. In London alone, the last year has seen The Milk perform rammed-out headline shows across the likes of Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, Dingwalls, The Jazz Cafe, XOYO and Camden Barfly, predominately whilst still unsigned. With a new single scheduled to coincide with the tour, the band’s first extensive UK tour will see them preview songs from their forthcoming debut album, which has been produced by celebrated DJ and remixer Brad Baloo (The Nextmen).
Having been friends since school, The Milk began life as a teenage punk band: after some disastrous efforts to act rock-and-roll, the group soon split, though lead-singer Rick’s belting soulful voice arguably benefited from these loud, formative years. Sometime later, the boys revisited the classic Motown, Stax and Trojan Records that had soundtracked their teens, intent on putting on a club night. Instead, they hit a creative breakthrough. Holed up in the shed at the bottom of their garden, all new songs and sounds were experimented with, which were written in-between and sometimes in response to a series of make-do jobs in Wickford, Essex. And it is to their hometown that the band will round off their tour, with a Chinnerys show in Southend on April 5.
March 1 Canterbury The Farmhouse
March 2 Brighton Green Door Store
March 4 Bournemouth 60 Million Postcards
March 5 Southampton Joiners
March 7 Oxford Jericho
March 8 Bristol Start The Bus
March 9 Bath Moles
March 10 Gloucester Guildhall
March 12 Cardiff The Globe
March 13 Doncaster Leopard
March 14 York Stereo
March 16 Leeds Nation of Shopkeepers
March 17 Stoke Sugarmill
March 18 Birmingham The Rainbow
March 19 Sheffield The Plug
March 21 Nottingham Bodega
March 22 Manchester Deaf Institute
March 23 Liverpool Shipping Forecast
March 24 Preston 53 Degrees
March 26 Middlesbrough Westgarth Social Club
March 28 Edinburgh Electric Circus
March 29 Glasgow King Tuts
March 30 Aberdeen Tunnels
March 31 Dundee Doghouse
April 2 Newcastle Cosmic Ballroom
April 3 Norwich Open
April 4 London Scala
April 5 Southend Chinnerys
