Renowned for their raucous live shows, Norwegian quartet Pom Poko today share new track Leg Day alongside its video. Having released their debut album Birthday earlier this year through Bella Union, this new track heralds news of further UK shows, including a run of dates with Ezra Furman and follows previously sold-out shows at The Shacklewell Arms and The Lexington in London. Watch and listen to “Leg Day” HERE.
Presenting some context, the band explain; “Leg Day is one of our personal live favorites, because it’s so dance-y and usually gets our pulse up quite a bit. The song was written over the course of a year, while we figured out how it should be played, before we found its final form as a Frankenstein distorted disco song about superheros and appreciating one’s legs, and recorded it as the sole inhabitants of a small northern Italian village.”
Pom Poko’s sweetly pop-punk melodies and disco-fried art-rock eruptions together with a sense of free-firing spirit, balls-out individuality is highlighted onBirthdayand mirrored no less so in an exhilarating live set. A busy summer in attendance at numerous European festivals is followed by a welcome return to these shores including their biggest UK show to date at London’s Scala. The band then return for a run of shows as guests of label-mate Ezra Furman in November. Full dates are listed below.
POM POKO INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES:
8/30/2019 – Parkfest – Berlin(RadioEins), DE
9/1/2019 – End Of The Road Festival – Dorset, UK
10/12/2019 Twisterella – Middlesbrough, UK
10/13/2019 – Sneaky Pete´s – Edinburgh, UK
10/14/2019 – Phase One – Liverpool UK
10/15/2019 – Hyde Park Book Club – Leeds UK
10/16/2019 – BBC6 live session – Manchester UK
10/17/2019 – Deaf Institute – Manchester UK
10/18/2019 – Wild Paths – Norwich UK
10/19/2019 – Simple Things – Bristol UK
10/21/2019 – The Hope & Ruin – Brighton UK
10/22/2019 – The Joiners – Southampton UK
10/23/2019 – Scala – London UK
10/24/2019 – The Hope & Ruin – Brighton UK
10/25/2019 – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff UK
10/26 Hare & Hounds, Birmingham UK
11/11/2019 – QMU – Glasgow UK **
11/12/2019 – Albert Hall – Manchester UK**
11/13/2019 – O2 Academy – Bristol UK **
11/14/2019 – O2 Forum Kentish Town – London UK **
11/24/2019 – Vega Small Hall – København DK **
11/26/2019 – Debaser Strand – Stockholm SE **
** supporting Ezra Furman
