THE NATIONAL ANNOUNCE UK DATESThe National today announce they will play two UK shows this November as part of their world tour, including their biggest UK headline show to date at London’s Alexandra Palace. The National will play: Monday 11th November O2 Apollo Manchester Wednesday 13th November Alexandra Palace London Tickets go on sale at 9am on Saturday 13th April priced £27.50 (subject to booking fee) from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk This follows the announcement that The National will release their sixth studio album ‘Trouble Will Find Me’ on 20th May. The new album follows 2010’s critical and commercial success High Violet and is the most self-assured collection of songs produced by The National in its 14-year career. In an interview with UK’s UNCUT Magazine, front man Matt Berninger described the songs as more “immediate and visceral” than their previous work. Trouble Will Find Me possesses a directness, a coherency and an approachability that suggests The National are at their most confident. After a 22-month tour following the release of High Violet the band returned home. Regardless of plans to wait to record new music for another year or two, guitarist Aaron Dessner began working on sketches of new songs that the other members were too inspired by to not fully realize. Matt confesses, “For the past ten years we’d been chasing something, wanting to prove something. And this chase was about trying to disprove our own insecurities. After touring High Violet, I think we felt like we’d finally gotten there. Now we could relax—not in terms of our own expectations but we didn’t have to prove our identity any longer.” The results are simultaneously breakthrough and oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has led The National both to a new crest and, somehow, back to their beginnings—when, says Aaron, “our ideas would immediately click with each other. It’s free-wheeling again. The songs on one level are our most complex, and on another they’re our most simple and human. It just feels like we’ve embraced the chemistry we have.” www.facebook.com/thenationalofficial / www.twitter.com/The_National For more information and media enquiries, please contact Sarah Lowe: fifthavenuepr@googlemail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Live Nation Entertainment:Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and ecommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Artist Nation and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five ecommerce sites, with a database of over 119 million fans who visit our sites. Live Nation Concerts produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally. Artist Nation is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 200 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling nearly 800 advertisers to tap into the 250 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.
April 5, 2013 1:28pm ET by Live Nation
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