We hope you all had a wicked New Years Eve. We are really grateful for all the support we have received during 2013 and we hope 2014 is a great year for everyone.

We’re not gigging now until our free show on the 22nd at The Cornerstone in Oxford. In the meantime we’ll be spending a lot of time in the studio writing and recording.

Hopefully catch you at a show in 2014 !

The Darlingtons x

Hope you’ve had a great day. Merry Christmas from The Darlingtons x

After a new engine, turbo and a hefty bill from the garage our beloved vehicle Gertie has risen from the dead just in time for our gigs at Da Bee in Winsford on Thursday and the Met Lounge in Peterborough on Friday. Lets hope it survives longer than a month this time!

Thank you to everyone who came to our shows in London and Bridgewater last week as well! We had two great gigs.

We are very pleased to be returning to London tomorrow to headline Death2Disco at Nottinghill Arts Club. Plus…

A NEW SHOW HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE TOUR! We will be supporting our friends Bridges at Bridgewater Arts Centre on Saturday.

GIG ALERT! We are playing Death2Disco at Notting Hill Arts Club in London on 11th December. Join the Faceboook event page

Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy of ‘Don’t GIve Me Hope’. You can still grab yourself a copy

Our single ‘Don’t Give Me Hope’ is officially released today. Get it here -

We had three great gigs at the weekend, thank you to everyone who came out and saw us in Hull, Sheffield and Leicester. This week we’re off to The Nest in Bath on Tuesday and The Lincoln Imp in Scunthorpe on Friday.

Thank you to those who came out to see us in Doncaster and Stamford last week. This week we’re heading back up the country to play in Hull on Thursday, Sheffield on Friday and Leicester on Saturday.

Don’t forget our single is out next week (Monday 25th) and will be available to purchase through iTunes.

It has been getting some glowing reviews too -

“Combining epic post rock with a sense of emotional optimism” - Artrocker 

“Kiran Roy, Daniel Young, Alex Bispham, and Chris Holmes have come together to make something incredible” – A Music Blog Yea?

“Songwriting skills most people kill for” – The Monitors 

Fresh Online! Check out our track B-Side ‘Contagious, Courangious’. This will be the B-Side to the single ‘Don’t Give Me Hope’ released on 25/11/13, which will be available to download through iTunes.

Thanks to those who caught us in Glastonbury and Weston at the weekend. We’re over in Stamford on Friday at Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge.

We’re also lucky enough to be seeing The National on Wednesday. Very exciting.

We spent last week doing a mini tour of t’north where we got a chance to play alongside some cracking bands, including the fantastic Catfish and the Bottlemen. Thanks to all that attended the shows we had a great time at each of them and can’t wait to be back!

Here are a few photos from our Halloween show with Catfish and the Bottlemen. (Photo Credits to Mark Loraine)

Along with a photo of a pig holding a pumpkin…It was Halloween after all

This weekend we will be playing the King Arthur in Glastonbury and Bar Youth Cafe in Weston Super-Mare!

Here is our brand new video for our most recent single ‘Don’t Give Me Hope’.

Have a read of what Bitter Sweet Symphonies blog had to say about it HERE

In other news, we drove half way up the country yesterday when our car packed in. Unfortunately we didn’t get to play the gig in Leeds we had planned. However, we will be sorting transport to get to these gigs this week:

30/10/13 – The Bowry, Sheffield

31/10/13 – The Leopard (with Catfish & The Bottlemen), Doncaster

01/11/13 – Gypsy Tears (with Kismet Ryding) , Cleethorpes

02/11/13 – The Leopard, Doncaster

03/11/13 – The Hop, Wakefield