Shed Seven will return with their first album in more than six years when they release ‘A Matter of Time’ on January 12th 2024 via Cooking Vinyl. Coming as 2024 represents the band’s 30th anniversary together, the album is launched alongside today’s release of the new single ‘Kissing California’ as well as the confirmation of a headline tour this autumn.
Tickets on sale Friday 21st July at 9:30am here.
OCTOBER
19th - Cardiff, The Tramshed
20th - London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
21st - Nottingham, Rock City
23rd - Stoke-on-Trent, Victoria Hall
24th - Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
26th - Glasgow, The Barrowland Ballroom
27th - Middlesbrough, Town Hall
28th - Manchester, Albert Hall
For ‘A Matter of Time’, Shed Seven’s core members - vocalist Rick Witter, guitarist Paul Banks and bassist Tom Gladwin - reconnected with the classic albums that first inspired them to form a band. The resulting record sparkles with the liberated exuberance and full-throttle rock ‘n’ roll attitude of a group who are making music for the sheer joy of expressing themselves and performing together. While the album broadens the Shed Seven sonic palette a touch, it’s full of the towering, arms-in-the-air anthems and yearning melancholia that fans have come to love them for.
The trio enlisted a new line-up for the album, calling upon drummer Rob ‘Maxi’ Maxfield (Audioweb) and keyboardist Tim Willis (Ian Brown). The album was produced by the Grammy Award-winning Youth (The Verve, Pink Floyd) at El Mirador Studios in Andalucia, Spain, before being completed by leading mixer Cenzo Townshend (Florence + The Machine, Inhaler).
In the meantime, Shed Seven will play select gigs this summer including a sold-out 6000-capacity show at Millenium Square, Leeds, on July 15th and a headline set at Party At The Palace on August 12th.
Shed Seven emerged as one of the big hitters during the heyday of Britpop, their catalogue of classic singles leading to seven Top 20 hits including ‘Going For Gold’, ‘Chasing Rainbows’, ‘Disco Down’ and ‘On Standby’ as well as four Top 10 albums. Their popularity has continued since reforming in 2007, with 2017’s ‘Instant Pleasures’ album debuting at #8 - their highest-charting record in eighteen years. The band’s subsequent sold-out shows have included Leeds First Direct Arena, the O2 Academy Brixton and Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse.