aaamusic | On 21, Mar 2011

Currently going down a storm at SXSW, Mazes recorded their forthcoming debut album last November on an old lightship moored on the Thames opposite the Millennium Dome. ‘A Thousand Heys’ (FatCat, 11th April) captures the excitement and fizzing energy of a band still in day-jobs with everything in front of them. And, by taking 10 instead of the usual one – maybe two – days to record, it delivers that energy sounding like one of the freshest, most life-affirming collections any of us are going to hear this year.

Mazes talk to VBSTV about recording the album here:

http://www.vbs.tv/tigerfound/found-lightship-95-episode-1

Listen to the single ‘Most Days’ at http://snd.sc/eQWvmq

Special limited vinyl version of Paradise Vendors/Italian Beach Babes Compilation 12″ (orginally avaliable on tape including Mazes own thirty second punk thrash ‘Painting of Tupac Shakur’) will be made avaliable for Record Store Day

Supporting Dum Dum Girls, March 31 – April 6

31-Mar-11 Manchester Deaf Institute

01-Apr-11 Dublin Whelans

02-Apr-11 Belfast Belfast Film Festival @ The Black Box

03-Apr-11 Glasgow Stereo

04-Apr-11 Leeds Brudenell Social Club

05-Apr-11 London Dingwalls

06-Apr-11 Brighton The Komedia

14-Apr-11 London, Dalston The Victoria

27-Apr-11 Manchester Deaf Institute (supporting Times New Viking)

28-Apr-11 Sheffield Queens Social Club (supporting Best Coast)

29-Apr11 York, Stereo

30-Apr-11 Live at Leeds