Vessels have announced a European tour with Oceansize this autumn. The Leeds-based band will join Oceansize for 24 shows throughout mainland Europe and then will return to the UK for a set of headline shows where they will be be previewing music from their second album, due for release in early 2011. More information on this soon!

The UK shows will see Brighton’s Stuart Warwick (Jacob’s Stories) as support, with Humanfly also joining the bill for the London show at The Black Heart on Thursday 17 November. The hometown show takes place at the Brudenell Social Club, a fringe event of the Constellations festival (Broken Social Scene, Four Tet).

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Here are the dates:

Fri 24 Sep - The Venue, DUMFRIES
Sat 25 Sep - Bar Continental, BARROW-IN-FURNESS

Sat 9 Oct - Bibelot, Dordrecht, NETHERLANDS (with Oceansize)
Sun 10 Oct - Doornroosje, Nijmegan, NETHERLANDS (with Oceansize)
Mon 11 Oct - Melkweg Oude Zeel, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS (with Oceansize)
Wed 13 Oct - Gebaude 9, Cologne, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Thu 14 Oct - Logo, Hamburg, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Fri 15 Oct - Beta, Copenhagen, DENMARK (with Oceansize)
Sat 16 Oct - Garage, Oslo, NORWAY (with Oceansize)
Sun 17 Oct -Malman, Stockholm, SWEDEN (with Oceansize)
Tue 19 Oct - Kuudes Linja, Helsinki, FINLAND (with Oceansize)
Wed 20 Oct - Lost in Music, Tampere, FINLAND (with Oceansize)
Sat 23 Oct- Hydrozagadka, Warsaw, POLAND (with Oceansize)
Sun 24 Oct - Lucerna Music Hall, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC (with Oceansize)
Mon 25 Oct - Werk 2, Liepzig, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Tue 26 Oct - Colossaal, Aschaffenburg, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Thu 28 Oct - Kulturladen, Konstanz, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Fri 29 Oct - Backstage, Munich, GERMANY (with Oceansize)
Sat 30 Oct - Sublime, Aflenz, AUSTRIA (with Oceansize)
Mon 1 Nov - Grabenhalle, St Gallen, SWITZERLAND (with Oceansize)
Tue 2 Nov - ISC Club, Bern, SWITZERLAND (with Oceansize)
Thu 4 Nov - Be Cool, Barcelona, SPAIN (with Oceansize)
Fri 5 Nov - El Tren, Granada, SPAIN (with Oceansize)
Sat 6 Nov - Ritmo & Compass, Madrid, SPAIN (with Oceansize)
Sun 7 Nov - Rock Star Live Barakaldo, Bilbao, SPAIN (with Oceansize)
Tue 9 Nov - Nouveau Casino, Paris, FRANCE (with Oceansize)

Fri 12 Nov - Brudenell Social Club, LEEDS (with Jacob’s Stories &)
Sat 13 Nov - Deaf Institute, MANCHESTER (with Jacob’s Stories)
Wed 17 Nov - The Black Heart, LONDON (with Jacob’s Stories & Humanfly)
Thu 18 Nov - Bierkeller, BRISTOL (with Jacob’s Stories)

Vessels are currently in Dallas, Texas, recording their second album with John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, St Vincent, Baroness). The band are writing a diary of their exploits as they make the follow up to 2008’s White Fields and Open Devices. You can keep up to date with the band’s words and pictures here:
http://vesselsband.com
http://twitter.com/vesselsband

Meanwhile, the Leeds five-piece have also announced a clutch of dates with fellow noisy Loiners These Monsters this July. This will be an early opportunity to hear tracks from the as yet untitled second album by Vessels and to hear music from These Monsters’ debut Call Me Dragon, which came out earlier this year. See all the band’s shows below.

Friday 9 July - Brudenell Social Club, LEEDS (with These Monsters)
Saturday 10 July - The Zuu Bar, BRADFORD (with These Monsters)
Monday 12 July - The Lexington, LONDON (with These Monsters)
Tuesday 13 July - The Freebutt, BRIGHTON (with These Monsters)
Wednesday 14 July - The Croft, BRISTOL (with These Monsters)
Thursday 15 July - Play, READING (w/ A Genuine Freakshow and Talons)
Saturday 17 July - 2000 Trees Festival, CHELTENHAM

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Quack Quack’s debut album Slow As An Eyeball was released this week and the band have announced a handful of new shows including a fundraiser for Leeds listings guide Cops and Robbers and an appearance at the rescheduled Fell Foot Sound festival.

The gigs:
Saturday 12 June - Rock & Roll Circus, LEEDS (with Pifco & Quip) NB facebook invite only
Saturday 26 June - The Cube, BRISTOL (with Nitkowski and The Wailingest Cats)
Friday 9 July - Sewing Room Bar, Playhouse, BRADFORD (with Executive Legs)
Friday 10 September - Fell Foot Sound Festival, ULVERSTON (with Bo Ningen, Juffage, Plank! and That Fucking Tank)
Saturday 25 September - North Finchley Arts Depot, LONDON

On Slow As An Eyeball:

“This Leeds band rock, they swoon, they hypnotise. In my parallel universe, Slow As An Eyeball goes in at No. 1. It’s a thing of spellbinding, powerful beauty”
John Kennedy, XFM/Dazed & Confused

“Good grief, Slow As An Eyeball is fun…. The sort of immediate, raw and inescapable joy that leaps out of the speakers to demand smiles, dance action and increased volume all at the same time.”
All About Jazz

“Quack Quack is crafting some of the finest instrumental music since Tortoise’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Seriously…. Slow As An Eyeball is one of the finest recordings to come out this year – one that offers hope and promise for the future of instrumental rock music”
8/10 The Silent Ballet

“Rhythmically minded in the extreme, they have the chops to conjure hooky splendour”
Rock Sound

“Kraut-prog craziness… stunning musicianship”
Rock-A-Rolla

“Porn for people who hum…”
Cokemachineglow

“Fans of innovative sounds and killer rhythms should make this a must hear”
5/5 Album Of The Fortnight Leeds Guide

7.77 Lodown Magazine

“The album does pack quite a wallop”
The 405

“It’s the ghost of Ron Pickering, calling you across the the ages to a shared childhood that never was”
Vibrations

Buy the album here. Of course you can find the album in the best indie record shops and online at the usual places…

Quack Quack’s debut album, Slow As An Eyeball, is released this month. Unfortunately the CD release has been delayed until 24th May, however the album is available from iTunes now! What’s more, there are two bonus tracks, ‘Nine‘ and ‘Jason‘, the former featuring Seb Rochford and Pete Wareham of Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland. Here are links to the UK and US iTunes:
UK iTunes
US iTunes

You can preorder the CD from our store here:
http://www.cuckundoorecords.com/shop.html

And Amazon

Here are some early reviews to the album:
Leeds Guide 5/5 Album Of The Fortnight
Whisperin & Hollerin 9/10

The band are currently on tour, here are the remaining dates:
Tuesday 4 May - Boston Arms, London
Wednesday 5 May - Portland Arms, Cambridge
Thursday 6 May - The Greenhouse Effect, Brighton
Friday 7 May - South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Saturday 8 May - Chinchilla Fest, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

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Hear three tracks from the album here:
http://www.myspace.com/thisisquackquack

UK	Europe	World
£10.00	£11.00	£12.00

(includes postage and packing)

Meanwhile, catch the band live on their tour which starts next week:

Thursday 29 April - Mad Ferret, Preston
Friday 30 April - Mitchell’s, Glasgow
Saturday 1 May - Big Blue Coffee Shop, Derby
Sunday 2 May - Playhouse Bar, Norwich
Monday 3 May - County Sports, Bristol
Tuesday 4 May - Boston Arms, London
Wednesday 5 May - Portland Arms, Cambridge
Thursday 6 May - The Greenhouse Effect, Brighton
Friday 7 May - South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Saturday 8 May - Chinchilla Fest, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

Thursday 29 April - Mad Ferret, Preston
Friday 30 April - Mitchell’s, Glasgow
Saturday 1 May - Big Blue Coffee Shop, Derby
Sunday 2 May - Playhouse Bar, Norwich
Monday 3 May - County Sports, Bristol
Tuesday 4 May - Boston Arms, London
Wednesday 5 May - Portland Arms, Cambridge
Thursday 6 May - The Greenhouse Effect, Brighton
Friday 7 May - South Street Arts Centre, Reading
Saturday 8 May - Chinchilla Fest, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds

You can stream the track from the band’s myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thisisquackquack

Quack Quack have a new blog and have joined twitter too:
http://www.thisisquackquack.co.uk
http://twitter.com/thisisquack

Here’s the lovely artwork from Sophie McIntosh:

Here are the shows:
Friday 16 April - Old Road Tavern, CHIPPENHAM
Saturday 17 April -Out Of The Crowd Festival, LUXEMBOURG (with 65daysofstatic)
Sunday 18 April - Locomotiva Festival, LONDON (with Ef and I Concur)
Saturday 1 May - Live At Leeds, LEEDS
Saturday 1 May - The Dog and Partridge, BOLTON
Friday 7 May - Band On The Wall, MANCHESTER
Saturday 8 May - The Vine, SOWERBY BRIDGE

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