Eighties Matchbox Plot New UK Tour

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster are to tour the UK in July and August in support of their new EP ‘The Garden’.

The Brighton based band will play fifteen dates in total starting with a show at the Academy 4 in Manchester and finishing up at London’s Scala.

‘The Garden’ EP feature four new songs entitled ‘You Say You're The Doctor, But I Know You're The Mister’, ‘Horses Can Swim’, ‘Terrible Night’ plus the title track.

Rich Fownes described the new material as the "fastest, heaviest surf music ever made and cross it with an ugly opera".

The dates are:

Manchester, Academy 4 – July 23
Birmingham, Barfly – 24
Brighton, Barfly – 25
Chatham, Tap ‘n’ Tin – 26
Liverpool, Barfly – 27
Leicester, Sumo – 28
Glasgow, Barfly – 30
Newcastle, Academy 2 – 31
Leeds, Cockpit – August 1
Sheffield, Plug – 2
Stoke, Sugarmill – 3
Nottingham, Rescue Rooms – 4
Bristol, Thekla – 5
Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach – 6
London, Scala - 7