Delorentos announce Irish tour

To celebrate the release of long-awaited third album Little Sparks, Dublin pop rockers Delorentos will embark on a nine-date nationwide tour, kicking off in late February.

Having enjoyed an intimate but successful run of acoustic dates to promote their current EP of the same name, the four-piece are ready to take things up a notch. Little Sparks is set for release on January 27. Produced by Rob Kirwan (PJ Harvey, U2), the 12-track album represents the band's most personal work to date.

"I'm very proud of our first two albums," said frontman Rónán Yourell. "But on this one we've given more of ourselves personally than we have before. We spent the first couple of albums learning to play and write music together, and we've learned so much along the way. We think the new songs are a lot stronger."

Look out for a full in-depth interview with the band in a future issue of Hot Press. For ticket information and plenty of Little Sparks-related goodness, head over to [link]www.delorentos.net[/link]. The full list of dates are as follows:

SAT FEB 25 – THE BUTTON FACTORY

FRI MAR 2 - DOLAN’S, LIMERICK

SAT MAR 3 – CYPRUS AVE, CORK

THURS MAR 8 – JOHN DALY’S, MULLINGAR

FRI MAR 9 - ROISIN DUBH, GALWAY

SAT MAR 10 - THE CLUBHOUSE, CASTLEBAR

THURS MAR 29 – SKY & THE GROUND, WEXFORD

FRI MAR 30 - SET THEATRE, KILKENNY

SAT MAR 31 – FORUM, WATERFORD