Lead singer and gay icon Olly Alexander (Photo: Polydor)
Years & Years have released dates for their upcoming Palo Santo tour.
The band will play 16 arenas across Europe, kicking off in Glasgow on November 28.
Tickets for the tour go on sale June 22. However, pre-sale tickets are available to fans who pre-order their latest album, Palo Santo, through their official website.
Years have booked their biggest venues to date, following the hype surrounding the release of their second album on July 6. Palo Santo’s first two singles, Sanctify and If You’re Over Me, have been received well by critics.
The promotion for Palo Santo has seen the band reach for loftier artistic heights than on their debut album, 2015’s Communion. Years seem to be reaching for a strong narrative thread throughout the visuals and lyrics for this album.
The videos for Palo Santo’s singles depict gay, lead singer Olly Alexander performing strange dance routines for androids in a dystopian society. The trailer for an accompanying short film, directed by Fred Rowson, features narration from none other than Dame Judi Dench.
The band have released a trailer for the album
The band has teased the short film, to be released alongside the album, with the following details:
‘Palo Santo has also become a city on a distant planet, on which human beings are a rare commodity, worshipped and idolized by an android society.
‘Olly, along with the final humans, is recruited to perform in a series of bizarre erotic cabarets, for an artificial master known only as The Showman.’
View the trailer here:
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See the full Palo Santo tour dates below:
28 November – Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
29 November – Manchester, O2 Apollo
30 November – Birmingham, Barclaycard Arena
4 December – Brighton, Brighton Centre
5 December – London, The O2
22 January – Dublin, Olympia Theatre
25 January – Amsterdam, AFAS Live
26 January – Hamburg, Sporthalle Hamburg
28 January – Copenhagen, KB Hallen
29 January – Oslo, Sentrum Scene
30 January – Stockholm, Annexet
1 February – Warsaw, Torwar Arena
3 February – Munich, Zenith
4 February – Milan, Fabrique
6 February – Köln, Palladium
7 February – Antwerp, Lotto Arena
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