Insistent, pulsing electro-pop and yearning, literary indie blend and bleed into one as Manchester’s emotive and adventurous songsmiths, The Slow Readers Club release their stunning, statement single, Boy So Blue – OUT NOW. Energetic, cautionary, audacious and intricately crafted, the complex and richly emotive floor filler is the latest single to be taken from the four-piece’s seventh studio album, Out Of A Dream, released on Fri 14 March 2025.
Completing a brace of rearranged dates this month, taking in The Academy in Dublin (Fri 7 Feb) and Belfast’s Limelight (Sat 8 Feb), the band has also announced they will precede their five date April tour across Holland and Germany with ten UK-wide album launch shows. Opening at The Met, Bury on Sat 1 March 2025, the intimate, full-band shows will also take place in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London and Nottingham with the latest ticket availability at www.theslowreadersclub.co.uk
The Slow Readers’ Club’s first major live announcement for summer has also arrived in the form of a homecoming date alongside Elbow. No strangers to the stage of the 8,000-capacity Castlefield Arena, having played alongside both James and Pixies there in recent years, the band’s broad family of die-hard fans are past seeking evidence of their main stage credentials.
Coupling that visceral Readers live experience with painstaking studio work to create bolder, even more atmospheric worlds of their own, Boy So Blue follows the drama of previous singles, Technofear and Animals. Cloaking upset with uproar and seeing the sorrow behind a brave face, the precarious balance between introspection and glorious sonic abandon has been set.
Never more comfortable than eye-to-eye with an audience, The Slow Readers Club saw out 2024 with a run of SOLD-OUT UK-wide dates, including another memorable homecoming. They added their latest sell out on familiar territory at the ornate O2 Ritz, Manchester to historic, capacity shows at Manchester O2 Apollo and the Albert Hall. With further live announcements to come for 2025, all confirmed, upcoming UK live dates are as follows:
Sat 1 March – Bury, The Met
Sun 2 March – Manchester, Gorilla
Fri 14 March – Bury, The Met – SOLD OUT
Sat 15 March – Liverpool, Jacaranda Baltic
Sun 16 March – Leeds, Headrow House – two performances
Thu 20 March – London, Rough Trade East
Fri 21 March – Kingston, Prizm
Sat 22 March – Nottingham, Rough Trade – two performances
Wed 2 July – Manchester, Castlefield Arena w/Elbow
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