St Albans quintet Trash Boat have today announced details of a European headline tour for February. The announcement comes hot on the heels of the band’s "Heaven Can Wait" album release last Friday.
“Being ten years and four albums deep into this band feels like a gift,” shares frontman Tobi Duncan. “We're honoured to have not only come this far, but to have done it together with all of our original members and even more of the passion that we started with. Now that this album is out, it's no longer ours, it belongs to the world now. To everyone that cares enough to listen, thank you so much for your continued support. Our only hope is that we get to scream this in your face in person someday. Heaven can wait, we have ROCKING to do!"
And rock they will, venues and dates below…
Heaven Can Wait European Tour
27.01 Riverside (Newcastle, UK)
28.01 Stylus (Leeds, UK)
30.01 KOKO (London UK)
01.02 Club Academy (Manchester, UK)
02.02 Slay (Glasgow, UK)
03.02 Asylum (Birmingham, UK)
04.02 Thekla (Bristol, UK)
06.02 Phoenix (Exeter, UK)
07.02 Engine Rooms (Southampton, UK)
10.02 MTC (Cologne, DE)
11.02 Hall Of Dame (Tilburg, DE)
12.02 headCRASH (Hamburg, DE)
14.02 Privatclub (Berlin, DE)
16.02 Nachtleben (Frankfurt, DE)
17.02 Backstage (Munich, DE)
"Filthy//Righteous' exists as a sort of twin brother to 'Be Someone',” reveals Duncan. “The latter being a message to the world regarding our pathetic default to strength, acquisition and violence to resolve problems, the former (Filthy//Righteous) being that same message to the person in front of you, the smaller entity you can affect in the moment rather than the leviathan behind a screen that you can't.”
“Kenta is a wonderful human being, that attracts positive attention everywhere he goes. He wanders around various backstages devoid of ego and makes friends with absolutely everyone. We were no exception, he introduced himself at Jera on Air and the rest is history. I slid into his DM's one day and showed him the song asking if he wanted to feature, he thankfully said yes! His contribution is unique and engaging, it's more than we could have planned for. Thanks so much again Kenta!”
“Life is pretty chaotic,” begins Trash Boat vocalist Tobi Duncan by way of explaining his band’s fervent fourth full-length album. “The world is pretty chaotic. I’m pretty chaotic, and this album is every piece of me and us as a band”
Welcome to the world of "Heaven Can Wait": a knotty, gnarled riddle of a record, at one turn deeply introspective, full of deep-seated questions, anxiety and despondency; at the next fuelled by a righteous rage towards an unjust, uncaring world stuck in a downward spiral. “I just wanna change the world, but I don’t know where to begin,” Duncan sings on the twisting, Britpop-channelling free fall of Delusions Of Grandeur. “I've already changed myself, a different me every weekend.”
Anyone paying attention to Trash Boat's indomitable ascent through alternative rock’s upper echelons will find little to surprise in those statements. The band’s preceding third album, 2021’s Don’t You Feel Amazing?, elevated the quintet – completed by guitarists Ryan Hyslop and Dann Bostock, bassist James Grayson and drummer Oakley Moffatt to the cover of esteemed tastemaker publications including Kerrang! and Upset, racking up 19m global streams off the back of key editorial playlist looks fronting Spotify’s The Rock List and Amazon’s Rock Scene. But more so, it served to shatter the constrained box into which expectation of the band previously had neatly sat. “I think people had come to expect a very particular sound from Trash Boat, and Don’t You Feel Amazing? was us exploring different sides, influences and inspirations, and finding our true sound,” Duncan reflects. “Heaven Can Wait, which we collectively self-produced, is an extension of that journey of exploration. As a band, we don’t have a singular artistic direction. We’re a cloud of chaos.”
Across its 11 shapeshifting tracks, "Heaven Can Wait" crackles with a white-hot energy. There’s the Deftones-invoking double salvo of Watching Heaven… Burn; the skittish Linkin Park-sounding filthy/RIGHTEOUS, for which Crossfaith’s Kenta Koie lends a thrilling guest vocal; and the slow-burn Are You Ready Now?, boasting, Duncan beams, a throat-shredding 22-second-long scream. It’s Trash Boat at their “heaviest, slowest, fastest, most complicated and contradictory”, the frontman attests.
“I'm not trying to paint a pretty picture that is nice to look at or that’s easily digestible,” Duncan says of "Heaven Can Wait". “I'm simply trying to paint an honest picture, and get as much of myself into these songs as possible. It’s direct. It’s unfiltered. It’s raw.”
It’s Trash Boat’s finest creative expression to date, too. Embrace the chaos.
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