The Miserable Rich announce a fourteen date tour of the UK in unusual venues and with a very curious flavour. The band’s third album, Miss You In The Days, is released on Halloween – recorded in Britain’s most haunted stately home, it is a collection of songs inspired by ghosts, poltergeists and other spooky apparitions. All performed and narrated in their own inimitable sophisticated ‘Chamber Pop’ style.
The band are accompanied on the tour by performance poet Alabaster Deplume, who will be introducing each evening with a set of spine-chilling tales based on the songs from The Miserable Rich’s album.
Part funded by PRS Foundation and part by fans via a successful (still running) Pledge Music campaign, the tour begins with a full-on fancy dress Halloween Ball at Westminster Reference Library (a double header with The Real Tuesday Weld) on the 29th October, and visits arts centres, churches and creepy railway arches; there is even one very special show at the aforementioned haunted stately home, Blickling Hall, fittingly enough on Halloween itself…
Lead singer James De Malplaquet explains: “As an experience, how do you top recording an album in a Jacobean Palace, the birthplace of Ann Boleyn? We’d already decided to release the album at Halloween, and wanted to put together a tour to do it justice. We decided to add a dramatic element to the proceedings, with ghost stories, exclusive acoustic previews in spooky crypts, and a free mix tape for those getting into the spirit and dressing up.
Pledge Music is an increasingly popular fan-funded model where fans ‘Pledge’ their own money, allowing bands to allocate funds to promotion and other costs. In this case – being able to make an album documentary, including this video of the recording of the secret album track, recorded in a haunted pub attic. http://1OA.r.mailjet.com/2AYmkaD5/3DOUe/5ch7e/www.youtube.com/watch
For more info please see www.themiserablerich.co.uk
29/10/11 LONDON Westminster Reference Library
30/10/11 WINDSOR Firestation Arts Centre
31/10/11 BLICKLING, Blickling Hall
2/11/11 OXFORD secret venue
3/11/11 MANCHESTER St Philipp’s with Saint Stephen Church
4/11/11 LIVERPOOL St Bride’s Church
5/11/11 FALMOUTH Miss Peapod’s
6/11/11 EXETER Phoenix Arts Centre
8/11/11 BRISTOL The Crypt of St John’s-in-the-Wall
9/11/11 LEEDS Temple Works
10/11/11 CARDIFF secret venue
11/11/11 WOLVERHAMPTON Newhampton Arts Centre
12/11/11 BRIGHTON Green Door Store
