KING CREOSOTE ANNOUNCES SCOTTISH & NEWCASTLE TOUR,  BRAND-NEW ALBUM, COLLABORATION WITH KID CANAVERAL.

Fresh from a Mercury nomination and a string of successful US dates, King Creosote – aka Fife’s Kenny Anderson – is set to bring it all back home with his biggest Scottish tour in years. He’ll also make a special trip to his ‘home-from-home’ of Newcastle. And he’s taking his brilliant Fence Records signings, Kid Canaveral, along for the ride.

Anderson recently made the headlines thanks to Diamond Mine (his beautiful Mercury-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins), but the Fence boss has also just completed a brand-new King Creosote album, and it’s this he’s set to premiere on the forthcoming tour (dates below).

Entitled That Might Well Be It, Darling, the new KC long-player is due for release on Domino Records in spring 2012. The follow-up to 2009’s Flick the Vs, it’s a gorgeous and often surprising long-player that features some of Anderson’s most rock‘n’roll, and most devastating, songs to date – along with an eleven-minute magnum opus hooked around a wine glass drone and a dreamy keyboard cameo from a bygone Iron Maiden associate.

If the tour offers Scottish fans the chance to hear some of these new King Creosote songs first hand (along with favourites, rarities and re-workings from Diamond Mine), then so too does it promise a raucous opportunity to see Edinburgh’s indie-pop champions Kid Canaveral.

Kid Canaveral are fast becoming one of the country’s best-loved live bands, as testified by their euphoric shows at this year’s SXSW industry showcase in Texas, and on the BBC Introducing stage at T in the Park. And their alt-rock charms are equally rampant on record: their debut album, Shouting at Wildlife, was indie emporium Avalanche Records’ best-selling album of 2010, while The Herald newspaper hailed it as ‘a Scottish pop classic: should be mandatory in every record collection in the country.’

So enamoured was Anderson with Kid Canaveral’s drive-pop talent that he signed the four-piece to his Fence Records label (they’d long been a highlight at Fence’s legendary East Neuk Homegame festival) and they soon struck up a rousing pop alliance. It has thus far seen King Creosote and Kid Canaveral tour the States together (Kid C moonlit as Anderson’s backing band) and he in turn played a squeezebox cameo on their recent loin-stirring cover of his ungratified lament, ‘Missionary’.

Now the twain will celebrate their union on vinyl and across the land with the release of a brand-new, blinding collaborative seven-inch, ‘Homerun and a Vow’. It was written as a gentle picked guitar song by King Creosote and instantly re-cast as a harmonic indie-rock chorale by Kid Canaveral. It’s due for release via Fence on October 31.

King Creosote and Kid Canaveral will each play full separate sets, and will then combine forces for excessive on-stage rock ‘n’ roll thrills, at the following dates:

King Creosote and Kid Canaveral: The Scottish & Newcastle tour:

Fri 28 Oct: ULLAPOOL, THE CEILIDH PLACE – TICKETS
Sat 29 Oct: INVERNESS, IRONWORKS – TICKETS
Mon 31 Oct ABERDEEN, THE LEMON TREE – TICKETS
Tue 01 Nov NEWCASTLE, THE CLUNY – TICKETS
Wed 02 Nov EDINBURGH, LIQUID ROOM – TICKETS
Thu 03 Nov DUNDEE, THE DOGHOUSE – TICKETS
Fri 04 Nov BANCHORY, WOODEND BARN – TICKETS

King Creosote & Kid Canaveral, ‘Homerun and a Vow’ – released on 7″ on October 31 via Fence Records
Kid Canaveral’s debut album, Shouting at Wildlife, is out now on Fence Records
King Creosote’s new album, That Might Well Be It, Darling – released spring 2012 on Domino Records