The Futureheads have introduced particulars of a brand new festive album ‘Christmas’ and an accompanying UK tour.
The Sunderland indie band will launch their first ever holidays-themed album on November 21. It is going to be comprised largely of reinterpretations of yuletide classics, in addition to two unique compositions, and you’ll pre-order it right here.
A model new track ‘The Coldest Winter In 100 Years’ will seem on the report, as will the band’s 2010 launch ‘Christmas Was Higher In The 80s’, the primary festive track the band ever launched.
‘Christmas’ has been organized, recorded and produced by the band themselves and in addition contains covers of favourites similar to ‘Have Your self A Merry Little Christmas’, Pretenders‘ ‘2000 Miles’, Jona Lewie’s ‘Cease The Cavalry’ and Paul McCartney‘s ‘Great Christmastime’.
To coincide with the album’s launch, the band will even play 4 unique exhibits in December, together with two hometown exhibits at Sunderland’s The Fireplace Station, and exhibits in Glasgow and EartH in London.
Tickets for the exhibits go on sale on Monday (September 29) at 10am and it is possible for you to to seek out yours right here.
The Futureheads will play:
DECEMBER 2025
8 – Glasgow, Oran Mor
19 – Sunderland, The Fireplace Station
20 – Sunderland, The Fireplace Station
22 – London, EartH Theatre
The band have mentioned: “We’re proud to have self-produced this assortment of recordings. We’re additionally proud and grateful to be nonetheless making music collectively in spite of everything these years and this album is a celebration of that. We love being on this band and when in good spirits, we make a particular sound.”
Quipping about recording the songs throughout a summer time heatwave, they added: “When you’re going to make a Christmas album, and wish it achieved and dusted (or ought to that be polished) in time to launch throughout the suitable season, then sweaty summer time classes are a should! And oh boy, did we’ve some sweaty ones.”
‘Christmas’ tracklist:
- ‘Carol Of The Bells’
- ‘Cease The Cavalry’
- ‘Have Your self A Merry Little Christmas’
- ‘What’s This?’
- ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’
- ‘The Twelve Days Of Christmas’
- ‘Great Christmastime’
- ‘2000 Miles’
- ‘The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years’
- ‘Christmas Was Higher In The 80s’
Elsewhere, the band’s frontman Barry Hyde launched a solo album ‘Miners’ Ballads’ in March by way of Sirenspire Data, an idea report that explored the coal mining heritage of the North East of England.
In different information, Hyde just lately spoke to NME about his expertise with The Futureheads opening for The Killers on the 2005 NME Awards tour, which additionally included Bloc Occasion and Kaiser Chiefs.
“Retrospectively, it was an thrilling time for British indie music, and I might love there to be a constructive nostalgia journey for the Noughties. Wanting again, we had been so younger. Our drummer was solely 16 and wasn’t even legally allowed within the venues for our first excursions of America.”
Hyde additionally recalled the 2005 NME Awards ceremony, which marked the tip of the tour. “That was a heavy-duty Noughties evening! I used to be gutted as a result of I went as much as Simon Pegg on the bar and informed him how a lot I cherished his sitcom Spaced, and he wasn’t very pleasant,” he mentioned. “I ended up successful the award that no person desires – when NME gave me The Drunkest Particular person of the Night time award!”
