In April they announced a 29 date tour of the UK to promote their new album.
and was performed by Franz Ferdinand on Comic Relief 2009 Top of The Pops special.
On New Year’s Eve 2009 Simian Mobile Disco headlined “Get Loaded in the Dark” at the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Chase & Status , Herve and Sub Focus .
Two more box sets followed in 2009, Genesis Live 1973–2007 , which collected all of the band’s live albums and Genesis Movie Box 1981–2007 , which compiled all of the band’s live home video releases.
In Autumn 2009, the band released a ‘best of’ compilation Sharpen Up the Knives and played their largest ever UK gig in front of 3,500 people at the Apollo in Manchester. They also supported Depeche Mode in Greece.
played festivals including Lollapalooza that year.
The new line-up (consisting of Lydon, earlier members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds , plus multi-instrumentalist Scott Firth ) played to generally positive reviews in late 2009, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Metal Box . However, protested Lydon, “This tour is absolutely nothing to do with an anniversary of…
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briefly reunited for a festival tour in 2009
Arctic Monkeys embarked on the first leg of the worldwide Humbug Tour in January 2009 and went on to headline 2009’s Reading and Leeds Festivals . During this performance, they played a number of songs from Humbug , plus older tracks such as “Brianstorm” and a cover of Nick Cave…
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Kaiser Chiefs headed out on a UK Arena tour between February and March 2009, kicking off in Nottingham and ending in London. The tour visited Sheffield, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff and Dublin. This was the new album tour to promote Off with Their Heads .