Paul Smith's Stockton date
ANNOUNCED by the man himself in a BBC 6 music session with Lauren Laverne last week, Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith said he will be playing The Georgian Theatre, Stockton, on Monday, August 31. This is his only warm up date ahead of a September UK tour promoting new solo record Contradictions.
Contradictions took four years to write and record, having begun life on the road at the point Smith assembled his Intimations, who are Andrew Hodson (drums) from electronic duo Warm Digits and Claire Adams (bass), to help tour his solo debut Margins. The album finds Paul in a more reflective state opposed to the adrenaline-fuelled pop choruses he’s been known for up to now and is a clearer, more hi-fi progression from Margins’ melancholy. "I only ever want to release music that I feel adds something new to the world, however small,” Smith says, “and I'm confident that Contradictions is an alternative pop record that fulfils my own criteria.”
* Tees Music Alliance Presents: Paul Smith & The Intimations, The Georgian Theatre, 7.30pm. £13 in advance. teesmusicalliance.org.uk and http://bit.ly/1Ku2Q4u
Also Friday, September 4, 8.30pm. The Cluny & The Cluny 2, Newcastle
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