Los Angeles-based Best Coast have confirm a five date UK headline tour for June 2012 culminating in a performance at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival. The shows will be the band’s first playing in the UK as an expanded four piece – with the core duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno being joined by Rafe Mandel and Brett Mielke.The dates will see Best Coast debut songs from their forthcoming second album, the follow-up to 2010’s Crazy For You.
The as-yet-untitled long player is being recorded with producer Jon Brion at Los Angeles’ Capitol Studios. “This album helped me to step out of the rut going on in my life,” Bethany told Rolling Stone recently. “Crazy for You was very much about boy problems, but I’m no longer going ‘Waaaah, my boyfriend doesn’t like me.’ Now it’s more, ‘Oh shit, life is real.’” And it’s not just the subject matter that has evolved: “When we first started, I’d drench everything in distortion and reverb – I didn’t want people to hear my voice,” Cosentino says. “For this album, I was inspired by Loretta Lynn, Dusty Springfield, Dolly Parton, Stevie Nicks. I wanted people to be like, ‘Damn, this girl can sing.’”
The record is due for release in spring 2012 on Wichita Recordings in the UK/Europe and via Mexican Summer in the US.
The full UK tour dates are as follows:
16 June – Glasgow ABC 2 (tickets)
17 June – Manchester HMV Ritz (tickets)
18 June – Birmingham Academy (tickets)
20 June – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
21 June – Brighton Coalition (tickets)
22 June – Isle of Wight Festival – The Garden Stage
Tickets go on sale Monday 13 February at 10am.
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