Following a prolific year and a hectic summer of festival shows, Bombay Bicycle Club – Britain’s biggest
breakthrough band - were nominated for the prestigious 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Prize 'Album of the Year' for their fourth album, So Long, See You Tomorrow. The critically acclaimed album went to number 1 in the UK Album Chart in Feb 2014. As they continue to exceed all expectations, Bombay Bicycle Club are now gearing up to set sails on their largest UK tour to date, culminating on 13th December at London’s iconic Earls Court which is almost sold out.
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So Long, See You Tomorrow captures the results of singer Jack Steadman’s picaresque adventures in the likes of Turkey
and India throughout 2013. Joyously escapist, its electronic-inflected and Bollywood-referencing sound made good on the Eastern promise, as it went straight to Number 1 in the album charts (Feb 2014) and reached silver status in record time. The press were effusive with their praise: ‘Buoyant, wistful and heart-rending’ said The Telegraph, ‘sensational’ said Sunday Times Culture, whilst The Times chimed in “Bombay Bicycle Club remain one of the most inventive indie bands out there”.
The band’s broad and varied body of work means the North London four-piece are both as at home with the intimate acoustic
nature of ‘Eyes Off You’ as they are with the euphoric highs of first single ‘Carry Me’ and the exhilarating rush of album opener
‘Overdone’. In songwriting terms Bombay Bicycle Club, who are still only 24 years old, posses a kind of dynamism that’s
been missing from young British bands for years. They have mastered the melodic, the melancholic and at the same time, the euphoric.
Bombay Bicycle Club will embark on their biggest and most ambitious tour yet, a seven-date run of the UK before their London’s Earls Court show on 13th December, which has already had extra seats added due to popular demand.
View tour dates and get tickets here
News & Features
15 Sep, 2014