It’s that time of year again; bright mornings, trees just about leafless and time to get on the phone for tickets for the NME Awards Tour. Taking place from 3rd – 19th February next year, the tour’s being headlined by Crystal Castles in what NME are calling “the most diverse and exciting NME Awards Tour line-up yet”.
Some of the other acts that have been announced include:
Magnetic Man
Everything Everything
The Vaccines
Number 12 on Crystal Castles’s second studio album titled Crystal Castles II (which was out in May 2010) is a cover of “Not in Love” by the 1980s new wave band Platinum Blonde. Ethan Kath sings the song on the album but the band have just released a reworking of the tune featuring Robert Smith, whom you might know from a little band called The Cure.
The band will be officially releasing the new single on December 6th along with acoustic demos of “Celestica” and “Suffocation” (also from Crystal Castles II) as b-sides.
North Americanites, REJOICE. For Crystal Castles will be touring. Then be DISMAYED. Because it won’t be until March 2011.
For your viewing pleasure: Alice Glass doing what she does best, and Ethan playing drums in a handmade Japanese sex mask.
Watch ‘Baptism’ below. Experience their official video for ‘Celestica’ here.
Enjoy ‘Celestica’ below. Crystal Castles are nominated for The Polaris Prize.
Stream his sensational reinterpretation of ‘Pap Smear’ in the feature below.
Enjoy this week’s amazing performance of ‘Celestica’ in the feature below.
