Lankum Share New Single ‘Newcastle’ ahead of False Lankum Release
March 21, 2023
Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum today share a new single ‘Newcastle’, taken from their forthcoming album False Lankum, which is released on March 24, 2023 via Rough Trade Records. Hear the track and watch the visualiser here.
Lankum explain the background to ‘Newcastle’, “We learned this song from Seán Fitzgerald of The Deadlians, whose mother Pauline sang it to him as a child. The tune was first published in ‘The English Dancing Master’ (1651) where it is simply entitled ‘Newcastle’, while the words may be related to a broadside ballad printed in 1620 and entitled ‘The contented Couckould, Or a pleasant new Songe of a New-Castle man whose wife being gon from him, shewing how he came to London to her, & when he found her carried her backe againe to New-Castle Towne.”
Following on from their much anticipated sell out show at The Barbican on 4th May 2023, Lankum will return to London in December 2023 to play The Roundhouse – their biggest headline gig to date. With their April/May tour almost completely sold out, the band will return to Amsterdam and Berlin in November 2023 and will play their first German tour. Full dates below.
Forthcoming Tour Dates
APRIL
25th Apr – Silent Green, Berlin, Germany – sold out
28th Apr – Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands– sold out
30th Apr – Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
MAY
2nd May – Petit Bain, Paris, France
4th May – London, Barbican, London, UK – sold out
10th May – St Lukes, Glasgow, UK – sold out
11th May – Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK – sold out
Fri 12th May – SWX, Bristol, UK – sold out
19th May – Mandela Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland – sold out
20th May – Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland – sold out
24th May – Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland
29th May – Vicar St, Dublin, Ireland
30th May – Vicar St, Dublin, Ireland – sold out
31st May – Vicar St, Dublin, Ireland – sold out
JUNE
8th Jun – Beaches Brew, Ravenna, IT
10th June – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, NL
28th Jun – Pop Messe, Brno, Czech Republic
AUGUST
4-6th Aug – All Together Now Festival, Co Waterford, Ireland
17-21st Aug – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
SEPTEMBER
1-3rd Sep – Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK
NOVEMBER
17th Nov – Manufaktur, Schorndorf, Germany
19th Nov – Transcentury Update Festival, Leipzig, Germany
22nd Nov – Lido, Berlin, Germany
23rd Nov – Stadtgarten, Köln, Germany
26th Nov – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
DECEMBER
13th Dec – The Roundhouse, London, UK
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False Lankum
23 March 2023
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