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Playing on the Gaymers Stage Friday.

RE-ISSUE WALL OF ARMS ALBUM

WITH BONUS TRACKS ON 1ST FEBRUARY 2010

Single Empty Vessels featuring Roots Manuva Available on iTunes now

Released 1st February 2010 on 12" vinyl (Fiction Records)

The Maccabees headline NME Awards Tour 2010

Fiction Records are to re-release The Maccabees' Wall of Arms album with five bonus tracks on 1st February 2010. EmptyVessels and the band's cover of Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night will be included alongside Love You Better b-sides Sleep Tonight, Accordion Song (sung by Felix White) and Hearts That Strangle (sung by Hugo White). The latter two have become firm live favourites and narrowly missed out on the original album track list. Until now they have only been available on 7" vinyl.

The Maccabees collaborated with rapper Roots Manuva on single Empty Vessels, a heady re-working of Wall of Arms album track No Kind Words. The track features brilliant new lyrics and vocals from fellow south Londoner Roots. Maccabees’ guitarist Felix White had Roots in mind for No Kind Words during the Wall of Arms recording sessions and mentioned his desire for a collaboration in a couple of interviews earlier this year. On the eve of their Glastonbury appearance White received a call from Roots…

The Maccabees headline the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2010 with Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums in February. Dates below/overleaf.

Two thousand and nine was a great year for The Maccabees with career-defining sets at Leeds and Reading Festivals leading The Observer to dub them “festival heroes” and NME to remind us “they’re probably the best home-grown indie rock band the UK has to offer right now”. In Wall of Arms they released one of the best-received albums of the year. The record entered the UK album charts at number 13 in May, winning praise across the board from fans and critics alike. 

The Maccabees have won over a whole new legion of fans, building upon the success of their debut album Colour It In with three sold-out headline tours in 2009, including a spectacular homecoming headline show at Brixton Academy in October, and key festival appearances at Isle of Wight, Glastonbury and T in The Park and Reading and Leeds.