Pete and The Puta Madres will be touring the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland in May 2019, with a date at the O2 Ritz in Manchester on Thursday 9^th May.

Having just completed a sold-out tour of the UK, Peter Doherty and The Puta Madres have announced a UK and European tour to coincide with the release of their eponymously titled debut album, out on Friday 26^th April.

Peter Doherty and The Puta Madres

Tickets for all show go on sale at 9am on Friday 1^st March – HERE

Pre-order the new Peter Doherty and The Puta Madres album – HERE

A single, mixed by Cenzo Townshend ‘Who’s Been Having You Over’ is also available when you pre-order the album . This single is supported by a video filmed in Margate and directed by Roger Sargent in collaboration with Art Collective; Worship the Ground.

“We believe the act of creating public artworks is visual activism, punk ethics have always been at the very core of its soul. We are arming an inactive society with an alternative knowledge, standing up to ongoing vilification by the press and their immoral standards, and to the authorities who encourage the soulless gentrification and social control in our public space, whilst ignoring their duty of care.”

Recorded at a family home overlooking a fishing village in Étretat Normandy, over 4 days last summer and mixed at Urchin Studios (East London), the album is engineered by Dan Cox (Laura Marling, Thurston Moore, Florence & The Machine) and produced by Jai Stanley (long-time friend and manager). All the songs from the album were road tested over the last 18 months across Europe at Festivals and headline shows.

Songs include the reflective ‘All At Sea’, the raw ‘Punk Buck Bonafide’, the upbeat and playful ‘Shoreleave’, the joyous hymn of liberation ‘Paradise Is Under Your Nose’. ‘Someone Else To Be’ is Peter’s re-imagining of  the Velvet Underground’s ‘Ride Into The Sun’ and Oasis’ ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger, ‘Traveling Tinker’ is an elegy to Peter’s friend, Alan Wass and ‘Who’s Been Having You Over’ features dialogue from the 1948 film adaption of Graham Greene’s ‘Brighton Rock’ with a cheeky poke at his own notoriety…or is it,“You’re so Rock & Roll.”

Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres Album and Single Artwork

The full dates are:

MAY

3rd Friday  :  Belfast – Limelight

4th Saturday  :  Dublin – The Academy

5th Sunday   :  Bristol – O2 Academy*

7th Tuesday   :  Glasgow – Barrowland Ballroom

8th Wednesday  :  Leeds – Stylus

9th Thursday  :  Manchester – O2 Ritz*

11th Saturday  :  Nottingham – Rock City

12th Sunday  :  London – O2 Forum Kentish Town*

15th Wednesday :  Paris (FRANCE) – Bataclan

16th Thursday  :  Antwerp (BELGIUM) – Trix

17th Friday  :  Cologne (GERMANY) – Kantine

19th Sunday  :  Berlin (GERMANY) – Astra Kulturhaus

20th Monday  :  Vienna (AUSTRIA) – WUK

21st Tuesday  :  Munich (GERMANY) – Backstage Werk

23rd Thursday  :  Zurich (SWITZERLAND) – X-Tra

24th Friday  :  Fribourg (SWITZERLAND) – Fri-Son

Peter Doherty and The Puta Madres will also be playing at European festivals this year, including Mythos Festival in Rennes (France) in March, at Sakifo Musik Festival in St Pierre (France) in June, at Penn Festival in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Amsterdamse Bos in the Netherlands, both in July.

Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres are: Peter Doherty (Vocals/Guitar), Miggles (bass), Miki Beavis (violin), Katia DeVidas (Piano/keyboards), Jack Jones (lead guitar) and Rafa (drums).

An interview with Frank Turner ahead of his Victoria Warehouse gig