Neck Deep to play biggest shows yet on September 2020 UK tour
Supporting new album 'All Distortions Are Intentional'
Wrexham pop punk heroes Neck Deep have announced six massive headline UK shows for September 2020.
Ben, Dani, Matt, Sam and Seb will kick off their six-night trek with two nights at Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September.
Following this, they play two nights at Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom (Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th September), and gargantuan shows at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena (Friday 18th September) and London Alexandra Palace (Saturday 19th September).
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Bassist Seb Barlow enthuses: "We are incredibly excited (and nervous) to be playing such big and prestigious venues! When we started this band, we never even dreamed of playing at places like Alexandra Palace and O2 Victoria Warehouse, so to headline them feels surreal.
“Not that we have ever felt the need to prove ourselves to anyone, but coming back with an album we are all incredibly proud of and confident in, we felt we needed to play rooms that reflect that. We had these venues in mind when we were writing this record, so, now is the time to do it.”
The September tour follows the Friday 24th July release of Neck Deep’s new studio album ‘All Distortions Are Intentional’, which has been produced by Matt Squire.
Billed as the ‘biggest and boldest step yet in the creative evolution’ of Neck Deep, ‘All Distortions Are Intentional’ is a thematically complex concept album that tackles themes of disconnection, existential confusion, and the search for meaning.
The 12-track album tells the story of a loner named Jett, who lives in a place dubbed Sonderland, a combination of “Wonderland” and the somewhat obscure word “sonder”: the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own, with their own ambitions and worries.
“It’s that strange existential realisation that you are not the entire world,” explains singer Ben Barlow. “Everyone around you feels and lives the same way that you do. You’re just an extra in their story.”
Extolling the virtues of the album format, Ben continues: “Modern music is so much based around ‘the single’ and writing a record isn’t held in nearly the same regard as it used to be.
“All Distortions Are Intentional presents a whole story, where there is meaning from every angle of it,” the singer continues. “All of our records have their themes, but I wanted to create characters, scenes, a world, and have it mean something in the real world, too.”
See Neck Deep at the following shows:
SEPTEMBER 2020
Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse – Sat 12th
Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse – Sun 13th
Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom – Tue 15th
Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom – Wed 16th
Cardiff Motorpoint Arena – Fri 18th
London Alexandra Palace – Sat 19th