MUSIC: New Hope Club are Live at the Academy

FOLLOWING a great start to the year for rising stars New Hope Club, the band have now announced their first ever headline tour which takes place in September and October.

The three-piece have also confirmed the release of their new single which will be entitled ‘Love Again’.

The British lads, Reece Bibby, Blake Richardson and George Smith, will kick off the European tour at Oxford’s O2 Academy on September 24, before making their way around various cities including Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham as well as London’s legendary O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on October 4.

Along the way they will be live at the Academy on Saturday, September 21.

Showing no signs of slowing down, later this month New Hope Club are heading off on tour with The Vamps for their Four Corners UK and Ireland arena tour. Following that the band headline multiple dates across Asia including Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Seoul where they have a rapidly growing fanbase. There are also plans in place for them to return to the USA where they are in high demand, having previously appeared on some of the biggest shows there including NBC’s Today and the Teen Choice Awards.

New Hope Club are a force to be reckoned with on social media, YouTube and Spotify. They have picked up over 77 million views across their YouTube channel, scored over 36 million streams on Spotify alone and garner around 590,000 monthly listeners. Over the last 12 months they have released single ‘Permission’ and their second EP ‘Welcome To The Club Pt. 2’ which topped the iTunes preorder chart in 10 countries, including the UK.