At 11:11 am on January 11, glassjaw.com began streaming a studio recording of “Gold.” The website’s background was changed to a live band photo with the text “coloring book, the extended play. available exclusively at venue. gratis.” After the first concert on their 2011 tour, February 13, 2011, the new…
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To promote the album’s release, the band played at some of the UK’s largest festivals, including Download Festival and opening the main stage of the Reading Festival . This was preceded by a European tour supporting Danko Jones and their own UK Tour. In February 2011, the band supported All…
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On 2 and 3 July 2011 Biffy Clyro supported Foo Fighters in front of 130,000 fans (65,000 each night) at the Milton Keynes Bowl (National Bowl) in the U.K. On Saturday 9 July 2011, Biffy Clyro headlined the main stage (Apollo Stage) at Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House . The…
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It was announced in July 2011, that UK-based independent record label, Holy Roar Records , would release Make Do and Mend’s discography on a double LP. It includes the Bodies of Water and We’re All Just Living EPs and End Measured Mile .
In July 2011, Hawthorne Heights parted ways with Wind-up Records and created their own record label, Cardboard Empire. The band self-released a trilogy of EPs, beginning with Hate , which was released on August 23, 2011. Each EP was released within four or five months of the prior release. Between…
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Iceage were formed in 2008, when the members of the band averaged 17 years old. They signed to Escho to release their debut 7″ in 2009 and later on also to Tambourhinoceros in Denmark and Dais Records in the United States. They were then picked up by What’s Your Rupture?…
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The worldwide release date was 7 June 2011.
In June 2011, the band signed to Hopeless Records in the US, and embarked on the Vans Warped Tour for the second year in a row.
The band’s third studio album, David Comes to Life , was released in June 2011. A self-professed “rock opera” set in Thatcherite Britain , it tells a story of love, loss and redemption, with the story complicated by misdirection and unreliable narrators. The record debuted at No. 83 on the…
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Legal action had reportedly been initiated on May 31 of that year, with the band claiming Victory owed them over $75,000 in royalties.