The Xcerts: Tour With Brakes + Itunes Single

THE XCERTS: support slots with Brakes, Glasgow's Make Model, and Hundred Reasons...check iTunes for their new single!

Chay Woodman

Date published: 27th Sep 2007

THE XCERTS

www.myspace.com/thexcerts

Impossibly young Scottish trio THE XCERTS have been announced as main support to Brakes on their UK tour, as well as supporting Make Model on a series of Scottish dates. To coincide with the tours, THE XCERTS will release their track 'Just Go Home' as an iTunes-only release on 12 November. A highly limited number of copies will also be sold on tour, each with an individual Polaroid taken by the band.

SEPTEMBER

29 Sep BRIGHTON Concorde 2 (Best of Brighton live)

OCTOBER

1 Oct HULL Asylum University (with Brakes)
2 Oct GLASGOW Oran Mor (with Brakes)
3 Oct ABERDEEN Moshulu (with Brakes)
4 Oct SHEFFIELD Fuzz Club (with Brakes)
5 Oct DERBY Victoria Inn (with Brakes)
6 Oct MANCHESTER Club Academy (with Brakes)
7 Oct NEWCASTLE Northumbria University (with Brakes)
9 Oct WARWICK University (with Brakes)
13 Oct BATH Moles Club (with Brakes)

14 Oct EXETER The Cavern
17 Oct LONDON Barfly
18 Oct KINGSTON The Works (with Hundred Reasons)
19 Oct HERTFORD Marquee
20 Oct CARDIFF Callaghanns Bar

25 Oct INVERNESS Raigmore (with Make Model)
26 Oct ABERDEEN Tunnels (with Make Model)
28 Oct GLASGOW Barfly (with Make Model)
29 Oct DUNDEE Fat Sam's (with Make Model)

31 Oct BRIGHTON Ocean Rooms (with Cage the Elephant)

NOVEMBER
5 Nov BRIGHTON Barfly (with Make Model)

THE XCERTS' live show - rarely confined to the stage - has already been honed through gigs with Biffy Clyro, The Ataris and Bat for Lashes among others, and their intense strand of intelligent, distorted pop never fails to make an impact. Their limited edition single 'Breathtaking Flight' (released through One Records) received plays on Radio 1, XFM and 6Music, while follow-up 'My Book Laughs' also gained huge exposure on MTV2.

Citing influences as varied as Death Cab for Cutie, Mogwai and The Police and compared to the likes of Idlewild, The Jam and Brand New, THE XCERTS combine clean and clever melodies with triumphant rock riffs to create instantly memorable songs dripping in raw power.

www.myspace.com/thexcerts

"Ludicrously punchy"

- Steve Lamacq

"'My Book Laughs' is a thundering student disco floor-filler"

- Drowned in Sound

"A fucking great band...blessed with an ace frontman,

this is a band for the future"

- Kerrang!