Feeling ever more back where they belong as new music and touring announcements detonate love bombs amongst fans old and new, both in the UK and overseas, The Boo Radleys follow up their New Year announcement of a fresh 2023 album and Giant Steps 30^th Anniversary reissue and tour with new single – “The Unconscious” – and news of further tour dates. The second track lifted from the forthcoming, eighth Boos long-player, titled Eight, the full album will be released on Fri 9 June 2023 on the band’s own Boostr label.

Additional live outings come in the form of seven, warmly nostalgic dates on a co-headline trip with legendary John Peel-endorsed Leeds indie titans, Cud, opening in Manchester this autumn and ending with a date at London’s O2 Academy Islington. Tickets are on sale from Fri 24 February 2023.
 
Wasting barely a beat of the 35^th year since forming on the breezy Wirral peninsula as eager noiseniks, The Boo Radleys leaped into action in January to release “Seeker,” a piano-anchored and brass-laden track in the finest of the band’s philosophical pop traditions. Having used that song to sing about the necessity of human contact, trust, and companionship, “The Unconscious” takes psychology in hand and walks through the avenues and alleyways of the mind.

The intensity felt on their first album after reforming, 2022’s Keep On With Falling, handling the fragility of life and lining peppy Boos pop hooks with threads of contemplative darkness, has been lightened on Eight as the band’s writing has become less insular. Yet, for any promises of levity this time around, the band gets deep and meaningful on “The Unconscious,” layering the sweet sauce of a perfect, three-minute, ska-indebted indie-pop song onto the bitter dish of mental fragility and physical breakdown.

Having felt the warmth of both fan and critical response to their first tour in almost a quarter of a century last year, the band looks forward to playing the following dates through 2023:  

• Tue 13 June – Reading, South Street Arts Centre
• Wed 14 June – London, The Garage
• Thu 15 June – Tunbridge Wells, The Forum
• Fri 16 June – Birkenhead, Future Yard
• Thu 22 June – Dublin, The Grand Social
• Fri 23 June – Belfast, The Limelight
• Sun 25 June – Glasgow, Hug and Pint
• Sat 28 October – Manchester, Bread Shed w/Cud
• Sun 29 October – Liverpool, O2 Academy 2 w/Cud
• Mon 30 October – Sheffield, O2 Academy 2 w/Cud
• Tue 31 October – Birmingham, O2 Institute 2 w/Cud
• Thu 2 November – Bristol, The Fleece w/Cud
• Fri 3 November – Oxford, O2 Academy 2 w/Cud
• Sat 4 November – London, O2 Academy Islington w/Cud