LEMURIA ANNOUNCE INTIMATE ‘GET BETTER’ 10TH ANNIVERSARY UK TOUR

With this year marking the tenth anniversary of indie-punk trio LEMURIA’s debut Get Better, they’ve announced a celebratory tour of (frankly tiny) UK venues. 

Each show on the nine date run will feature Get Better played through in its entirety, as well as a ‘carefully-picked selection of compositions that span their time together as a band’.

Shortly prior to the album’s creation, drummer/vocalist Alex Kerns lost his father and explains that “after a funeral fiasco and during a climax of grief, we began writing our first album Get Better. An album title with a few meanings to me, but mostly it was elemental for me to simply get better… I wrote it on my snare and two tom drums. GET BET TER. An imaginary coach to remind me to move forward and never let myself be finished with the craft.

I’ve been revisiting the album hearing a decade old reflection of myself talking back to me with monumental indifference. I remember that me. I’m still that me sometimes, just not so hard panned. I was so different then, and I’ll be so different again. Listening back I find a sanctuary, a place where nothing is permanent, where feelings are tempered with time and glass becomes sand…

Now that you know the setting, it may give some of the lyrics more clarity. Themes rooted in stress and clouded with numbness simultaneously. Time might not expire the feelings the decade old songs document, but it provides proof of your ability to pivot.”

The record will also be getting a UK anniversary re-issue - we’ll give you the details on that as they come, and you can snap up a ticket for the 13th Note show at Tickets Scotland right now. 

TOUR DATES

UK TOUR DATES

05.07 Southampton, UK @ Joiners 
06.07 London, UK @ Borderline 
07.07 Bristol, UK @ Exchange 
10.07 Brimingham, UK @ Sunflower Lounge 
11.07 Manchester, UK @ Star and Garter 
12.07 Glasgow, UK @ 13th Note 
13.07 Leeds, UK @ Headrow House 
14.07 Nottingham, UK @ Red Rooms 
15.07 Dublin, UK @ Whelans