English Teacher for Dublin & Belfast shows
Leeds indie band English Teacher are one of my favourite new bands of the last year or so.
They’ve just been announced for Dublin and Belfast shows this May, in support of their debut album This Could Be Texas, out April 12th via Island Records.
The Whelan’s Dublin show on May 22nd is priced at €16.45 plus fees, and the band play Ulster Sports Club, Belfast on May 21st.
Album preorder and promoter presale (MCD) is active tomorrow, January 24th.
21st May – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast
22nd May – Whelans, Dublin
English Teacher live dates
28th Jan – The Crescent, York
29th Jan – The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
31st Jan – The Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees
1st Feb – Polar Bear, Hull
2nd Feb – Whereelse?, Margate
3rd Feb – Bedford Esquires, Bedford
8th Feb – L’Ubu, Rennes, FRA
9th Feb – Le Krakatoa, Mérignac, FRA
10th Feb – Point Éphémère, Paris, FRA
13th Feb – Cactus Club, Brugge, BEL
14th Feb – Trix, Antwerpen, BEL
17th Feb – Molotow, Hamburg, GER
18th Feb – Cassiopeia, Berlin, GER
20th Feb – Kranhalle, Munchen, GER
22nd Feb – Vera, Groningen, NL
23rd Feb – Rotown, Rotterdam, NL
24th Paradiso Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, NL
8th May – Concorde 2, Brighton
9th May – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
10th May – Thekla, Bristol
11th May – Clwb lfor Bach, Cardiff
13th May – The Bullingdon, Oxford
15th May – The Foundry, Sheffield
16th May – Irish Centre, Leeds
17th May – Mash House, Edinburgh
18th May – King Tuts, Glasgow
21st May – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast
22nd May – Whelans, Dublin
24th May – Gorilla, Manchester
25th May – Castle and Falcon, Birmingham
28th May – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
29th May – Electric Brixton, London
‘Albert Road’ from the album was released Friday, a curtain-closer of a track, a track about intolerant people emboldened post-Brexit and singer/ lyricist Lily Fontaine’s mixed raced upbringing in a small town:
English Teacher is Lily Fontaine (vocals, rhythm guitar, synth), Douglas Frost (drums, piano, vocals), Nicholas Eden (bass), Lewis Whiting (lead guitar)
This Could Be Texas Tracklist
01 – Albatross
02 – The World’s Biggest Paving Slab
03 – Broken Biscuits
04 – I’m Not Crying, You’re Crying
05 – Mastermind Specialism
06 – This Could Be Texas
07 – Not Everybody Gets To Go To Space
08 – R&B
09 – Nearly Daffodils
10 – The Best Tears Of Your Life
11 – You Blister My Paint
12 – Sideboob
13 – Albert Road
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