Indie rock band The Maccabees are to perform at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall this month as part of their national UK tour.
The band will be performing music from their latest long-awaited album Given To The Wild, alongside their well-known tracks.
The Maccabees third album is the culmination of two years of writing and recording. Having followed Wall of Arms – 2009’s critically-lauded second release – with main stage slots at Reading and Leeds Festivals, and two sell-out shows at Brixton Academy, the London five piece (singer Orlando Weeks, bassist Rupert Jarvis, guitarists Felix and Hugo White and drummer Sam Doyle) began work on its follow-up by dismantling their most creative of songwriting units.
For several months The Maccabees went their separate ways, individually sketching out the tracks that would make up their latest studio album.
“We wanted everyone in the band to feel freedom while making this record,” says Felix White.
“So individually we would work on ideas and bring them to the rest of the band.”
The fruits of this labour became the epic and beguiling Given To The Wild, a sprawling masterpiece of distorted pop, psychedelia and soulful guitar wig outs. It is the band’s most adventurous work to date.
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We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see the the Maccabees at Wolves Civic Hall. To be in with a chance to win a pair, simply answer the following:
The Maccabess originally hail from which English city?
Email your answers to us at iambirmingham[at]hotmail.co.uk – or by clicking here. Please include your full name, address, email and a contact number. Winners will be notified by email/phone. Winning tickets will be ready for collection at the Wolves Civic box office. Tickets are for Sunday 18th March, 2012. Closing date for all entries is on Wednesday 14th March, 2012.
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Tickets priced £17.00 and available from Midland Box Office: 0870 320 7000 or online at www.wolvescivic.co.uk.
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