Watch The Xcerts and other great gigs on Moshcam.

When on tour and people tell me “you’ve had quite the year”, i always nod and smile politely but i never have a clue what they are talking about. Being in a band and experiencing things you never thought possible means you live in the now. You never think about what has been. Looking back is very much like putting together the pieces of a mystery. You remember vaguely that you did something of great significance yet you can’t quite put your finger on it due to you about to walk on-stage and play a show in Berlin to 900 people.  It’s all bewildering, it’s all a dream.

We released ‘Scatterbrain’ at the tale end of last year and we have been on the road pretty much constantly in support of it. We started the year off on the ‘Rocksound Exposure’ tour and ended the year supporting Frank Turner throughout Europe for a month and a half. We have experienced things i never thought possible and we would like to say thankyou to each any every single person that believes in our band and has continued to support us throughout this year. We are forever grateful and you mean the world to us.

We are all back home and exceedingly excited to spend the festive period with loved ones. Next year is looking exciting already with a headline tour in January, a small run of dates with I Am The Avalanche in Europe and then the Brand New tour. You will also hear new material next year, that’s a promise.

Be safe everyone and have a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

To win ALL of this, all you have to do is ‘SHARE’ to your facebook wall and you’re name will be entered! Winner drawn this Friday 5pm. Scatterbrain deluxe OR Scatterbrain Vinyl OR In The Cold Wind We Smile, Slackerpop Flexi Disc, Scatterbrain Woodblock, Scatterbrain Hat, Poster, Badge, Xcerts Grey Baseball Shirt, ‘Just go Home’ (rare) 7″, ‘Do you Feel Safe’ (rare) 7″, My Book Laughs Poster (rare) + Free download of ‘White Christmas’ and signed christmas card from the band.

Scatterbrain Deluxe Edition or Scatterbrain Vinyl or In The Cold Wind We Smile,
Slackerpop Flexi,
Scatterbrain Woodblock,
Scatterbrain Hat,
Poster,
Badge + Free download of ‘White Christmas’ and a Christmas card signed by the band

Scatterbrain Deluxe Edition
, Slackerpop Flexi Disc
, In The Cold Wind We Smile + Free download of ‘White Christmas’ and a Christmas card signed by the band

Dates:

February
08 Bristol O2 Academy
09 Manchester Academy
10 Southampton Guildhall
11 London Camden Roundhouse
12 London Camden Roundhouse
14 Glasgow O2 Academy
15 Birmingham O2 Academy
16 Newcastle O2 Academy
17 Cardiff University Great Hall

Upon Murray’s return to the UK The Xcerts will be joining the stellar line-up at this year’s Relentless Freeze Festival on Friday 28th October alongside The Streets and Pulled Apart by Horses before heading onto perform a special intimate FREE show at the Old Blue Last for the launch of their ‘Slackerpop’ EP on 21st November.

The Xcerts will see the year out with the release of a deluxe version of their second album ‘Scatterbrain’ in UK and Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 18th November and the rest of the world on 21st November). The release will also be followed by the band’s second European tour of the year in support of label mate and folk punk hero Frank Turner. Dates below.

The band will see the New Year in with a long-awaited headline tour of the UK in January 2012. Make sure you get your tickets now to avoid disappointment!

CMJ SHOWCASES – Murray Macleod from THE XCERTS
Tues Oct 18th – Bowery Poetry Club – Stage Time 12 midnight
Wednesday Oct 19th – Acheron – Falling Apart. A Property of Zack Showcase – Stage Time 8pm
Thursday Oct 20th – Alphabet Lounge – Stage Time 7.45

FREEZE FESTIVAL
Friday 28th Oct – Freeze Festival, London

‘SLACKERPOP’ EP LAUNCH
Monday 21st Nov – Old Blue Last, London – 18+ – Free entry

FRANK TURNER EUROPEAN TOUR
NOVEMBER 2011
Tue 15th – NETHERLANDS, Amsterdam Melkweg
Wed 16th – GERMANY, Hannover Bei Chez Heinz
Thur 17th – GERMANY, Muenster Sputnikhalle
Tue 29th – GERMANY, Cologne, Live Music Hall
Wed 30th- GERMANY, Stuttgart Wagenhallen
DECEMBER 2011
Thur 1st – GERMANY, Munich Backstage Halle
Fri 2nd – GERMANY, Berlin Postbahnhof
Sun 4th – GERMANY, Hamburg Fabrik
Mon 5th – GERMANY, Rostock Mau Club
Wed 7th – FRANCE, Paris Divan Du Monde
Thur 8th – SWITZERLAND, Luzern Schuur
Wed 14th – POLAND, Warsaw Powiekszenie
Fri 16th – ITALY, Ravenna, Bronson
Sat 17th – SWITZERLAND, Zurich Abart
Sun 18th – AUSTRIA, Vienna WUK
Mon 19th – AUSTRIA, Graz PPC
Tue 20th – GERMANY, Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof

HEADLINE TOUR – JANUARY 2012
Tues 17th – Brighton Haunt
Thurs 19th -Bath Moles
Fri 20th – Preston 53 Degrees
Sat 21st – Aberdeen Drummonds
Sun 22nd – Glasgow King Tuts

This will be a limited edition release of only 500 so be sure to get yours quick. I must add, Flexi-discs can be played on a standard vinyl player. If you don’t have a vinyl player, it’ll make for a nice wall piece. The flexi-disc will also come with a code which will allow you to download a 5 track EP which includes ‘Gum’, ‘He Sinks.He Sleeps’, ‘Young (Belane) and ‘I See Things Differently’ in their ‘stripped down’ versions.

Our friends at Plastic Horse have made a mash up of the original video which you can see over at the Rocksound website here:

http://www.rocksound.tv/news/article/the-xcerts-mash-up-slackerpop-for-new-video