"We hope there’s something in the documentary for rabid fan and passing-interest viewer alike…"
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Today, the mighty Enter Shikari have revealed Content 2.0, a 1 hour+ documentary movie and track-by-track breakdown of their 2017 album The Spark.
Content 2.0 is an in-depth exploration of the record, charting the path from early demos to full-blown album recordings of many of the key tracks on the album, featuring interviews with band members, candid in-the-studio footage shot during the recording of the album, and never-before seen live footage taken on tour following The Spark release.
Content 2.0 was shot over a twelve month period, and then pieced together by the fan's videographer/photographer Tom Pullen, for the first anniversary of the album’s release.
"Normally, you'd release one of these track-by-track things in order to bolster the marketing around the release of an album (we don’t knowingly title these recent releases “Content” by accident)," says frontman Rou Reynolds. "But with the nature of The Spark’s lyrical content and what could be construed, by the casual listener, as the 'departure from the normal Enter Shikari sound' (whatever that is), we wanted people to be comfortable with their own interpretations and perspectives of what the album is before we started crushing their dreams with our insights and expositions into the arcane technical aspects of the recording. We hope there’s something in the documentary for rabid fan and passing-interest viewer alike. Mr Pullen has excelled himself in putting it together."
As part of the one year anniversary of The Spark, Enter Shikari also released a new remix of the first single Live Outside, mixed by their own alter-ego project the Shikari Sound System. The track is available via all download and streaming services worldwide. The remix was accompanied with a vertically formatted remix of the original video, reimagined by the band’s longtime Ukrainian visual collaborator Oleg Rooz.
They've also done a new book: The Spark - Lyrics & Exegesis of Rou Reynolds, is a companion paperback book to 2017’s Dear Future Historians hardback (now out of print), which compiles lyrics and essays relating to the band’s past decade of releases, including the first four albums and stand-alone singles. The limited edition book is published by Faber Music and available from all good bookstores from 26 November, or by pre-order now from Enter Shikari’s store.
Enter Shikari are on tour in the UK, Europe and Russia from Dec 2018 through to mid-April 2019. This week they announced Palaye Royale main support for the 2019 UK dates (Milk Teeth have previously been announced as the main support for the UK/Scandinavia 2018 run of touring), with plans to announce the European main support and all openers soon.
Enter Shikari 2018/19 tour dates below:
December
1 Lincoln Engine Shed
2 Keele University
3 Hull Welly
4 Cardiff Tramshed
6 Frome Cheese & Grain
7 Exeter Lemon Grove
8 Plymouth University
9 Portsmouth Pyramids
12 Bergen, NO Garage
13 Oslo, NO John Dee
14 Stockholm, SV Fryshuset
15 Gothenburg, SV Sticky FIngers
16 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset
January 2019
10 Sheffield O2 Academy
11 Nottingham Rock City
12 London O2 Academy Brixton
13 Leicester O2 Academy
15 Llandudno Venue Cymru
16 Liverpool O2 Academy
18 Bristol O2 Academy
19 Southend Cliffs Pavillion
20 Norwich UEA
23 Glasgow Barrowland
24 Aberdeen Beach Ballroom
25 Inverness Ironworks
26 Preston Guildhall
28 Northampton Roadmender
29 Southampton Guildhall
30 Cambridge Corn Exchange
February 2019
1 Birmingham O2 Academy
2 Leeds O2 Academy
3 Manchester Academy
4 Newcastle Academy
March 2019
7 Moscow, RU Adrenaline Stadium
9 St Petersburg, RU A2 Green Concert
11 Nizhniy Novgorod, RU Jupiter
13 Krasnodar, RU Arena Hall
14 Ekaterinburg, RU Teleclub
16 Novosibirsk, RU HoC Zheleznodorozhnkov
17 Krasnoyarsk, RU Grand Hall Sibir
19 Irkutsk, RU Sport Palace Trud
28 Tilburg, NL 013
29 Strasbourg, FR Laiterie
30 Paris, FR Bataclan
April 2019
1 Milan, IT Alkatraz
2 Munich, DE Neue Theatrefabrik
3 Linz, AT Posthof
6 Prague, CZ Forum Karlin
7 Dresden, DE Alter Schlachthof
8 Berlin, DE Huxleys
9 Leipzig, DE Conne Island
11 Erlangen, DE E-Werk
12 Dortmund, DE FZW
13 Cologne, DE Live Music Hall
15 Wiesbaden, DE Schlachthof
16 Saarbrucken, DE Garage
17 Brussels, BE AB
Head on over to Entershikari.com/shows for more info!
