THE Menzingers are set to make their return to the UK in April 2017 with a seven date UK tour getting under way in Southampton on Tuesday.
The dates, where they will be joined by special guests The Flatliners, follow the release of their eagerly awaited fifth album After The Party, which was released in February.
The Menzingers have made a habit of selling out venues on these shores and, indeed, around the globe. Armed with a new set of anthemic choruses, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies, they’ll be bringing a fresh batch of classic singalong opportunities to their dedicated and burgeoning fanbase in 2017.
The Menzingers made their Epitaph debut with 2012’s On The Impossible Past, which was voted Album of the Year by Rock Sound Magazine, Absolute Punk and Punk News. Released in 2014, its follow up Rented World was praised as “packed with clever songwriting” by The New York Times and declared “a colossal fist-pumper” by Stereogum.
With After the Party, The Menzingers set out to make the quintessential jukebox record: an unstoppably melodic album primed for bar-room sing-alongs.
“We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way, and now we’re at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions,” says Tom May, who joined fellow singer/guitarist Greg Barnett, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino in forming The Menzingers as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton in Philadelphia.
Barnett adds: “We’re turning 30 now, and there’s this idea that that’s when real life comes on. In a way this album is us saying, ‘We don’t have to grow up or get boring—we can keep on having a good time doing what we love."
The date is a complete sell out.
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