Brighton four piece BLACK PEAKS have announced a number of festival appearances, headline dates and support shows with SMASHING PUMPKINS and GORIJA over the summer months. This follows their recent appearance at The Great Escape in Brighton, part of which was captured by Fender.
JUNE
Sun 16 DONNINGTON Download Festival | Stage 3 @ 2.50pm
Sat 29 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy | First support to Gorija
Sun 30 LONDON O2 Brixton Academy | First support to Gorija
JULY
Mon 01 MANCHESTER Apollo | First support to Gorija
Fri 05 DOVER The Booking Hall | Headline
AUGUST
Sat 31 TORQUAY Burn It Down Festival | Main stage @ 9.00pm
BLACK PEAKS released their second album, ALL THAT DIVIDES, in October last year to rave reviews across the board. NME awarded the album 5/5 and said, “With All That Divides, the band delivers an album that’s confident, stylistically cohesive, and points towards their ascending star in the future”; whilst UPSET MAGAZINE also gave the album 5/5 and stated, “Black Peaks bellow unity from the rooftops. It’s not a political record but it does dish out the blame. Rather than dwelling in the mire, though, Black Peaks want hope. They need it. A call to arms entwined, it’s a record of struggle and resistance. It doesn’t have the answers but it knows they’re out there and it wants us to find them together.” Others like KERRANG! (4/5) DORK (5/5) METAL HAMMER (8/10) PLANET ROCK (4/5) RHYTHM (4/5) DISCOVERED (10/10) and THE SKINNY (4/5) backed up the praise, with THE INDEPENDENT stating, “Their sublime second album is massive in every sense of the word; this feels like a real achievement.”
