Frightened Rabbit - "Nothing Like You" + March 2010 headline tour dates

Frightened Rabbit announce headline tour - tickets on sale today

New Single "Nothing Like You", FatCat, 22nd February 2010

Nationwide UK Headline dates announced for March (Koko, 10th March)

Band arrive in NME Top100 albums of the decade

Catch the Guardian Podcast from midday tomorrow guardian.co.uk/music

Frightened Rabbit precede their 3rd full length studio album, 'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks' with a brand new single "Nothing Like You" on February 22nd. The new album follows on 1st March.

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Frightened Rabbit's steady ascent is set to rise incrementally with the release of the new album, appetite for which has been further stoked by the anthemic "Swim Until You Can't See Land" teaser single which gave the band their first Zane Lowe plays and left a unanimous critical impression at NME (No3 On The Stereo), Q (Track Of The Day), News Of The World (SotW), Record Of The Day (Track Of The Week), CMU Daily (Track Of The Day).

"Nothing Like You" typifies a more fully realised Frightened Rabbit sound, and like "Swim Until You Can't See Land" boasts a stunning string arrangement from labelmate, Hauschka.

Speaking to nme.com about the new album, lead singer Scott Hutchison explained, "We've broadened our horizons sonically and it feels like a natural move forward. Most importantly, it's better than the last one. That's all I wanted, really."

In order to facilitate the new material and flesh out the older tunes live, the band - once upon a time Scott alone - have expanded to a five piece with the addition of new member Gordon Skene (formerly of Make Model). "We want to do the recordings justice when we play them live. Gordon will be playing a bundle of instruments - we just bought a tasty wee mandolin for him to fiddle. We're really excited to have him involved."

The March headline dates run as follows, tickets available from 9am, Friday 27th November via CrowdSurge - Frightened Rabbit

March 2010

(Dates and information subject to change.)

04/03/10 York - Duchess
05/03/10 Manchester - Club Academy
06/03/10 Aldershot - West End Centre
08/03/10 Bristol - Thekla
09/03/10 Oxford - Academy 2
10/03/10 London - Koko
12/03/10 Birmingham - Academy 2
13/03/10 Sheffield - Leadmill 2
14/03/10 Norwich - Arts Centre

2010 will be a pivotal year for the band, as Scott acknowledges: "I've never been in a position of being aware of an audience of any size that was waiting for our music until now. You have to be aware of it or else it's totally selfish. Pressure sounds like a negative thing but it's quite positive actually. It feels earned. Everything we have achieved has been earned. It would be disappointing if we didn't become more popular because that's got to be the goal for every new record. If it comes I think we are actually ready for it now."

After months on the road and a climatic sell-out show at the Scala, Frightened Rabbit finally called a hiatus to touring in April of this year, Hutchison decamping to the splendid - and beautiful - isolation afforded by the seaside town of Crail on the Fyfe coastline to write the material that would make up the new album. Perhaps because of this 'The Winter Of Mixed Drinks' is populated with nautical references in the same way that The Midnight Organ Fight found expression through body metaphors.

Frightened Rabbit is: Scott Hutchison (vocals, guitar), Grant Hutchison (Drums, vocals), Billy Kennedy (guitar, keys), Andy Monaghan (bass, keyboard, guitar), Gordon Skene (guitar, keys, percussion)

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