Maximo Park Announce November UK Tour

     Northern Indie-rockers Maximo Park announced their first UK shows in three years today

     The quintet’s up and coming album ‘The National Health’, which was produced with Gil Norton, who’s already worked with Pixies and Foo Fighters, is set for release on the 11^th of June.

    The 8-date tour will start in Liverpool on the 1^st of November at the o2 Academy, until the 10^th of November at Portsmouth’s Pyramid’s Centre. Maximo Park will also share their new material with fans with a shorter tour next month. The shows will be in Manchester, London and Birmingham a few days before the album is released.

    Their new album ‘The National Health’ was created with “quite a lot of soul searching” according to the band, who played an exclusive preview acoustic set for NME magazine recently.

     The full tour dates are as follows:

Birmingham Glee Club (June 6)

Manchester Sound Control (June 7)

London Heaven (June 8)

O2 Academy Liverpool (November 1)

O2 ABC Glasgow (November 2)

O2 Academy Newcastle (November 3)

Sheffield Plug (November 5)

Manchester HMV Ritz (November 6)

O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (November 7)

Birmingham HMV Institute (November 9)

Portsmouth Pyramids Centre (November 10)

   Frontman and lead vocalist Paul Smith was also interviewed by gigwise.com recently, and talked about the ‘dangerous’ cuts to arts and music funding from the government. He explained that David Cameron and his Party treat creative people as a minority and do not appreciate them.

      "You end up feeling marginalised.” he said. “Obviously, a lot of arts stuff is not seen as important as getting the country back on track economically but if we live in a country without brave pop music and films then we'll be in a society that is poorer and squeezed in the most fundamental way. Without art I think society is poorer and impoverished."

    Instead of touring together over the last three years, Maximo Park opted for the odd intimate show here and there, working on solo projects and taking their time writing, producing and recording new material.

    The three intimate shows are already sold out, but tickets for their June and November gigs go on sale this Friday (1^st June) at 9am from www.seetickets.com, www.ticketmaster.com and www.nme.com/tickets