New Album. Move Through The Dawn To Be Released August 31st.
Having recently supported Manic Street Preachers on their Arena tour, The Coral announce a U.K. headline tour in October following the release of their new album Move Through The Dawn. The influential Hoylake band’s first headline tour for two years will start in Newcastle and take in London’s Koko and the University of Liverpool’s Mountford Hall on Friday 12th October, before culminating at Manchester Albert Hall on October 13th. Supporting on all dates comes from She Drew The Gun, the acclaimed Liverpool quartet signed to Coral frontman James Skelly’s Skeleton Key label.
Move Through The Dawn will be released on August 17th on Ignition Records on CD, LP and digitally, and is available to pre-order.
Tickets will be on general sale 9am May 18th, with a fan pre-sale from 9am May 16th – see www.thecoral.co.uk for further details.
The Coral will also be appearing at festivals throughout the summer and will be celebrating the release of Move Through The Dawn by hosting the Skeleton Coast Festival at Leasowe Castle, Wirral, on Saturday September 1st. Joining The Coral, who headline, will be Tim Burgess, Fuzzy Sun – the first signing to Blossoms’ new label Very Clever – plus Skeleton Key Records artists including The Fernweh, Marvin Powell and Cut Glass Kings.
The first single to be taken from Move Through The Dawn is the B.B.C. 6Music playlisted single Sweet Release – available now to stream, download and as instant grat with album pre-orders
Featuring a synchronized routine by a boiler-suited, paper bag hat-wearing dance troupe, the video for Sweet Release continues The Coral’s tradition for visually exciting and wryly amusing promos.
Move Through The Dawn was recorded at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool and produced by The Coral and Rich Turvey. The album is the follow-up to 2016’s critically acclaimed Distance Inbetween, which featured singles Miss Fortune, Holy Revelation and Million Eyes.
Nick Power, The Coral’s keyboardist, has written a new book, Into The Void, which will be published by Ebacc concurrently with the new album. Powers’ third book, Into The Void is an insightful, amusing and evocative first-hand account of the recording, release and touring of Distance Inbetween, which came after a five-year hiatus for the band.
Since their debut EP release in 2001 The Coral have sold over a million U.K. albums, with five reaching the Top 10 including 2003’s chart-topping Magic and Medicine. Their eight Top 40 singles include Dreaming Of You, In The Morning, Pass It On, and Don’t Think You’re The First.
FESTIVAL DATES
May 24th – 27th Bearded Theory Festival, Walton-on-Trent
May 27th Neighbourhood Weekender, Warrington
June 15th Nocturne Live at Blenheim Palace (supporting Noel Gallagher)
August 19th Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield (supporting Ocean Colour Scene)
August 24th – 26th Camper Calling, Alcester
Aug 30th – September1st Electric Fields, Dumfries
September 1st Skeleton Coast Festival, Leasowe Castle, Wirral