Walking On Cars announce three massive Irish dates to celebrate new album

Walking On Cars will release their new album, Colours, via Virgin EMI on April 12.

The four piece group from Dingle, Ireland, whose debut catapulted them to fame in their homeland and abroad, release 'Monster', the LP’s first single, today, along with news of three massive shows in Dublin, Cork and Belfast next spring to follow the release.

Monster by Walking On Cars

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Recorded between the band’s own home studio in County Kerry, London’s legendary RAK studios, and Angelic Studios near Banbury where The 1975 also made their latest, Colours is called "a second album kaleidoscopically rich with sounds, emotions, synth-rock imagination and the brilliant song writing synonymous with the bands previous releases".

On our last cover feature with Walking On Cars, we put it in simple terms, “With the massive European success of their double platinum-selling debut, Everything This Way, Kerry’s Walking On Cars pretty much owned 2016.” Indeed Everything This Way went on to sell a hefty 325,000 copies worldwide. Over 18 months’ touring the band sold 60,000 gig tickets, reaching arena level at home and sold out tours across Europe, as well as playing the mains stages of some of the biggest festivals out there, including Isle of Wight, Rock Werchter, Rock Am Ring and Electric Picnic in 2017.

Following the success of Everything This Way, the band continued to tour extensively. Their efforts led to success, but success led to strains. A stressful couple of years took their toll on the writing process, but the band came out fighting, albeit a guitar player down and with new management, and in February of this year came a breakthrough: Monster, the first fruits of the band’s labour to be released as a taster track from Colours, is a cathartic howl of a song, strident with piano, punchy electronics and a sky-grabbing chorus.

Speaking about new track 'Monster', Sorcha Durham said: “On the first album it was very organic: sit in a room, jam it out, tour it, come back, change the song." With the new album, the band found themselves become more involved with the production side, experimenting with programming and synths while staying true to the world beating songs and classic sound of their debut.

Walking On Cars will play the following three shows, with a huge combined capacity of over 30,000 next May/June. Fans can get exclusive access to pre-sale tickets when they pre-order the new album COLOURS from the official store - https://shop.walkingoncars.com/

Full tour dates below:

Tuesday 21st May BELFAST, Waterfront Hall
Thursday 23rd May DUBLIN, 3Arena
Friday 21st June CORK, The Irish Independent Park

Tickets for all dates go on sale Thursday 13th December at 9am via Ticketmaster outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie