Goldhawks released their second single, Where In The World, on Vertigo on March 29th. The single comes amid busy touring for the band with a bunch of headline shows, various club dates and a support tour with the Courteeners. Goldhawks, heavily tipped as One To Watch in 2010, are a live band not to be missed – they wowed the masses last year with a brace of shows at CMJ in New York and a sold-out residency at London’s Ginglik. Their debut album Trick Of Light follows on 7th June. The album will be preceded by the first ever New To Q Tour, where Goldhawks will play alongside Detroit Social Club and Tiffany Page.

It only takes a few bars of Where In The World to tell you that you are in the presence of Big Music. This west London five-piece are not in the business of half measures, not interested in anxious, apologetic, half-baked landfill indie. Goldhawks make their ambitions clear from the start: the giant opening guitar riff sets its cap at arenas, not the toilet circuit. The Where In The World video, shot over a freezing UK Christmas in Cornwall, features UK surf champion Seb Smart, braving the high seas intercut with the band performing.

More like revivalist meetings than gigs, Goldhawks’ live performances have reminded older hands of the zealotry and ferment of Echo and The Bunnymen. To their own generation, Goldhawks represent something that can often seem like it’s in very short supply indeed: music that has nothing to do with striking attitudes or ticking commercial boxes, and everything to do with what Bobby calls his only reason for making music in the first place: because he has to, he’s “got no choice”.

New to Q Tour Dates:

• 10th May Sound Control, Manchester
• 12th May Academy 2, Newcastle
• 13th May Cockpit, Leeds
• 16th May Academy 2, Bristol
• 17th May Academy 2, Birmingham – WIN TICKETS TO THIS DATE!
• 18th May The Garage, London

A little more about the acts:

Detroit Social Club are no strangers to big tours, having previously supported Primal Scream, Razorlight, and The Futureheads, and are renowned for their vibrant stage antics and visual displays.

Tiffany Page is drawing favourable reviews, garnering comparisons with Chrissie Hynde, or Courtney Love, combining her distinctive voice with attitude and a raucous way of handling a guitar.

Goldhawks are named after the street they were born and grew up on, yet their music is set to escape and travel much further than that. Influenced from across the Atlantic, the group take the bigger rock sound they enjoyed in childhood and adapt it to their more British roots.

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