Oceansize have firmed up their European/UK touring plans, here’s how their schedule now runs:

With This Town Needs Guns, Mojo Fury:

September 18th Newcastle, UK – O2 Academy
September 19th Glasgow, UK – Oran Mor
September 20th Aberdeen, UK – Cafe Drummonds
September 21st York, UK – Fibbers
September 23rd Leeds, UK – Cockpit
September 24th Liverpool, UK – O2 Academy 2
September 25th Cambridge, UK – ARU
September 26th Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms

With This Town Needs Guns:

September 28th Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy 2
September 29th Cardiff, UK – Millennium Music Hall
September 30th Stoke, UK – Sugarmill
October 01st London, UK – Koko
October 02nd Oxford, UK – Academy 2

With Porcupine Tree:

October 05th Halle, GER – Steintor-Variete
October 06th Berlin, GER – Admiralspalast
October 07th Bochum, GER – RuhrCongress
October 08th Karlsruhe, GER – Johannes-Brahms-Saal

With Vessels:

October 09th Dordrecht, NET – Poppodium Bibelot
October 10th Nijmegen, NET – Doornroosje
October 11th Amsterdam, NET – Melkweg Oude Zaal
October 13th Cologne, GER – Gebäude 9
October 14th Hamburg, GER – Logo
October 15th Copenhagen, DEN – Beta
October 16th Oslo, NOR – Garage (feat. Blank Dogs)
October 17th Stockholm, SWE – O’Baren
October 19th Helsinki, FIN – Kuudes Linja
October 20th Tampere, FIN – Lost In Music
October 23rd Warsaw, POL – Hydrozagadka
October 24th Prague, CZE – Lucerna Music Hall
October 25th Leipzig, GER – Werk II
October 26th Aschaffenburg, GER – Colos-Saal
October 28th Konstanz, GER – Kulturladen
October 29th Munich, GER – Backstage
October 30th Aflenz, AUT – Sublime
November 01st St Gallen, SWI – Grabenhalle
November 02nd Bern, SWI – ISC Club
November 04th Barcelona, SPA – Be Cool
November 05th Granada, SPA – El Tren
November 06th Madrid, SPA – Ritmo & Compas
November 07th Navarra, SPA – Sala Totem
November 09th Paris, FRA – Nouveau Casino

With Mojo Fury:

November 11th Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
November 13th Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
November 14th Bristol. UK – The Fleece
November 15th Manchester, UK – Academy 2

Oceansize’s new album “Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up” will see a release in North America through Superball Music on September 14th.

Oceansize have revealed the track listing to their new album “Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up” which is presently scheduled for a September 14th North American release date through Superball Music. The effort will run as follows:

01 – “Part Cardiac”
02 – “SuperImposer”
03 – “Build Us A Rocket Then…”
04 – “Oscar Acceptance Speech”
05 – “Ransoms”
06 – “A Penny’s Weight”
07 – “Silent/Transparent”
08 – “It’s My Tail And I’ll Chase It If I Want To”
09 – “Pine”
10 – “SuperImposter“

Oceansize, who are plotting a September 14th North American release date for their new album “Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up“, have booked the following UK dates for the fall:

September 25th Cambridge, UK – ARU
September 29th Cardiff, UK – Millennium Music Hall
October 02nd Oxford, UK – O2 Academy 2
October 05th Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
October 06th Brighton, UK – Concorde 2

More dates are currently pending.

Oceansize have set “Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up” as the title to their new album which they expect to release in September. For now, the group recently issued the following update on the outing:

“…Album – it’s finished. All mastered. It’s ace. It’s 10 songs (the special edition will have 11). They’re all great. It’s heavy. It’s soft. It’s lush. It’s got Claire Lemmon singing all prettily on it. It’s got Simon Neil screaming his fucking blackened little lungs on it. It’s got strings and pianos and gravity-defying bass drums on it. It’s our best album. Probably. You’ll hear it sometime in September.

Tour – dates are being organised. LOADS of them. Don’t even bother asking if we’re playing in America or Ireland. Yeah, i know.

Hopefully soon we’ll have all manner of exciting shit to talk about. In the meantime you can catch me playing second guitar for Biffy Clyro virtually every weekend this summer. Which is pretty ace really, isn’t it? When you think about it?

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PS – i forgot to tell you the album title didn’t i : ‘Self Preserved While The Bodies Float Up‘.”

Oceansize have checked in with the following update on their new album and more:

“…So what’s new?

Let’s have a think.

Umm.

Oh yeah. The fourth album.

Done the all drums. Done all the bass. Except for that song Steven thinks he can get away with not learning by insisting the bassline remain programmed. Done some guitars – Part Cardiac, ….Rocket, Magpie Soup, Pine. Nearly brought the fucking walls down with these absurdly ace/loud new amps we’ve borrowed. We’re recording all the songs we played on our recent tour, plus a whole bunch of others. The stuff you wont have heard is probably the weirder stuff we haven’t worked out how to play for real. Some stuff comes about by experimenting with studio tools and approaching things verrrry differently. Some stuff has been written at home all alone by various members, all lonely sounding.

What’s it sound like? Dunno, but i’m getting to that giddy part of the recording where i stop being all confused by the direction and start getting very excited and saying shit like ‘Fucking YES’ all the time. Most of the songs are shorter, but with no less ‘ideas’. Steven just added about 3 minutes to ‘Oscar Acceptance Speech‘, which is now about 8 minutes long. Doesn’t really feel like it though. A new song called ‘A Penny’s Weight‘ came out of a tiny idea from a discarded massive idea that we’d spent loads of time on then decided was total bollocks. We’re prone to that – running with something for months and then all seemingly waking up and going ‘nah’ all at the same time. Maybe it’s like that thing where girls all start having their periods simultaneously if they spend enough time together. Certainly, our bursts of mild insanity seem more frequent now we’ve got a target deadline. Predictable as ever.

Ah rambling now but you don’t mind. I know you don’t.

Record’s due later this year.

In the meantime, Kong (featuring our very own Mark and Steven Hodson, which not a lot of people are aware of cos they don’t like to mention Oceansize in interviews – just like DJ Smashy’s avoidance of subjects ‘Charidy’-based) are embarking on their first european tour this week, supporting the splendid 65daysofstatic. Go see them, especially if you have floor space/exotic drugs/fender guitars/amplification/shiny new things etc to spare.

Kong dates are available here –

http://www.myspace.com/kongdom

‘Everything’s as sound as clean and
Everything is easy’

All love.

x”

Oceansize have added And So I Watch You From Afar, Vessels and Brontide as support on their recently rescheduled UK trek. Dates for which now run as follows:

With And So I Watch You From Far Away, Vessels:

January 28th Liverpool, UK – Masque
January 29th Dundee, UK – Fat Sams
January 30th Aberdeen, UK – Tunnels
January 31st Glasgow, UK – King Tuts
February 02nd Manchester, UK – Academy 3
February 03rd London, UK – Heaven

With Vessels, Brontide:

February 04th Cardiff, UK – Barfly
February 05th Nottingham, UK – Seven

Oceansize have postponed their touring plans as a result of their drummer Mark Heron suffering from a recurring infection which the band assume to either be “Staph A or Celulitis”. They had the following statement to say on the matter:

“Ladies and Gents,

It’s with dismal regret and snotted beak we must announce the postponement of our entire tour. It’s been touch and go for a few days with our drummer, Mark, who’s back in the hospital being treated for something jolly nasty.

Mark is very ill and has been admitted to hospital indefinitely, we thought it best to postpone the dates until the New Year as it’s unlikely he will be well enough in time and as I’m sure you all understand it’s vital he makes a full recovery. We will have a full re-scheduled tour early next week.

All tickets will from the original dates will be valid. Refunds will be available from the point of purchase. We hope you can all make these new shows – the European dates were awesome and we’ve got some tasty new tunes for you to get your gums ’round.

We apologise to anyone who’s lost money on pre-booked hotels/trains etc. We’ll endeavour to make it up to you on the new dates.

Tonight, instead of tearing Nottingham a new arse, i’m gonna sit in and sing John Lee Hooker numbers to the cat.

With respect,

Oceansize”