“It’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again.” Enter Shikari announce Dancing On The Frontline UK tour

Enter Shikari, 2024 — (Image credit: Paul Harries)

Enter Shikari have announced details of a short, scaled-down winter tour of the UK.

Ahead of the band's main stage appearance at Download festival on Saturday, June 15, the Hertfordshire quartet have unveiled plans to play towns that weren't visited on their six-date arena tour back in February.

“People often travel considerable distances to come to live shows, so we feel it’s important for us to make the effort as well sometimes and play places that your standard tour wouldn’t normally,” vocalist Rou Reynolds explains in a press statement.

“On this run we’ve got some smaller stops that we haven’t played in ages, sandwiched in with cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Glasgow, that we didn’t get to visit on our arena tour. As much as we love the bigger rooms it’s going to be killer to play some smaller sweatier places again, and as these will be our last UK shows for quite a while, we couldn’t go into hiding without one last visit to the Barras!”

Enter Shikari Dancing On The Frontline UK tour

Nov 26: Torquay Foundry
Nov 28: Sheffield Octagon
Nov 29: Liverpool Mountford Hall
Nov 30: Boston Gliderdrome

Dec 01: Norwich, UEA
Dec 03: Glasgow, Barrowland
Dec 04: Stockton, Globe
Dec 06: Birmingham, O2 Academy
Dec 07: Folkestone, Lees Cliff Hall

The band will be supported by Teenage Wrist on all dates.

A presale for Future Historians / mailing list starts Monday , June 17th at 10am, with the general on-sale beginning on Wednesday, June 19 at 10am. Full details here.

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The quartet will release Dancing On The Frontline, a companion album to last year's A Kiss For The Whole World, featuring brand new remixes, BBC live sessions plus the stand-alone singles from the AKFTWW era, on July 5.

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.