In March 2013, Wootton left the band to focus on his solo career and was replaced by Kasabian guitarist Jay Mehler .
and then at RAMFest in South Africa with Rise Against in March,
In early March they performed ” Evil Eye ” and ” Love Illumination “
while the end of the month saw the live premiere of “Goodbye Lovers & Friends”.
In March, the band announced North American dates to their Delta Machine Tour , starting 22 August from Detroit and ending 8 October in Phoenix .
On 26 February 2013 the title of the band’s nineteenth studio album was announced as Now What?!
followed by “Truth” on 25 February 2013.
On 25 February 2013, Wilson released his third solo album, The Raven That Refused to Sing , of which some copies contained a compilation sampler disc of music made by artists on the record label Kscope; one track was a new Blackfield song, “Pills”, taken from the forthcoming album.
The band began touring in support of Temper Temper on 10 February 2013,
The band played a one-off concert in their hometown of Sheffield in December that year, at the 13,500 capacity Motorpoint Arena and made a previously unreleased track, ” After You “, available for download to those who had attended the concert. It was subsequently released to the general public in…
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