NEWS: Declan McKenna announces new single, new album and new tour!

DECLAN MCKENNA LAUNCHES NEW SINGLE FROM FORTHCOMING SECOND ALBUM + ANNOUNCES UK/EUROPEAN SPRING HEADLINE TOUR
 
“DANIEL, YOU’RE STILL A CHILD” IS STREAMING NOW.
 
THE NEW ALBUM “ZEROS” IS RELEASED 21^ST AUGUST 2020

Declan McKenna is very pleased to share a new single, Daniel, You’re Still A Child, and details of a huge UK/European Spring tour that takes in 22 headline shows.

With a new album, Zeros, out on 21^st August through Columbia Records, Declan unveils the next timely example of what to expect from it, and Daniel, You’re Still A Child is the 21 year old musician’s most fully realised single to date. Sonically adventurous and full of bombast and colour, it’s an imaginative, inventive pop song, that orbits a world several galaxies away from his peers and suggests Bowie offering a socially-distanced fist bump with Wayne Coyne. A technicolour tale.
 

Daniel, You’re Still A Child raises the anticipation for Declan’s eventual LP next month, and the bar for what he is capable of. It premiered this evening on Annie Mac’s Radio 1 show.

Trailing the narrative of the record so far Daniel, You’re Still A Child continues that voyage, catching up with dystopia and realising that we live at a time where nightmares become a ‘new reality’ and a life stuck on social media is the only life you might ever truly know. Reality blurred beyond distinction. Existential questions unanswered. Define ‘society’.

Daniel, a name that appears on two tracks on Zeros, feels like an innocent victim, lost and pushed to the periphery within this desolate, destructive world the album has created. Declan: “You know, Daniel, You’re Still A Child because he’s lost in the aftermath, whether it’s lost in the sauce, stoned, lost in some existential fear or lost his way in some VR game. Daniel is this kid who has so much to prove, he has so much in him but he’s just continually being led astray because the world’s telling him that he’s not ‘normal’.”

Daniel, it seems, exists as more of an idea than a person, an emotive floating figure, equipped with a laser-beam synth line and funkadelic, bassline- a cheeky wink at those cheesy 70s TV shows set in outer space, all oversized collars and hairy chests. “Social media isn’t this alien spaceship, it’s the reality in which young people are living in. And I found myself living in this reality. I’m not trying to create a story that’s like ‘bleep bloop isn’t the future mad’ we’re living in that madness now!” 
 

 

Declan will head out across the UK and Europe from March 2021 in support of the record, taking in 22 shows throughout the Spring. Tickets hit pre-sale on Wednesday 15^th July @ 9:00am BST, and on general sale from Friday 17^th July @ 9:00am BST from Declan’s website – www.declanmckenna.net

Declan McKenna Live:
26^th March – The Waterfront, Norwich
27^th March – The Junction, Cambridge
28^th March – O2 Academy, Bristol
30^th March – Tramshed, Cardiff
1^st April – O2 Academy Brixton, London
3^rd April – O2 Academy, Birmingham
5^th April – Rock City, Nottingham
6^th April – O2 Academy, Newcastle
8^th April – O2 Academy, Leeds
9^th April – Albert Hall, Manchester
12^th April – SWG3 The Galvanizers, Glasgow
23^rd April – Le Stereolux, Nantes
24^th April – Le Trabendo, Paris
26^th April – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing
27^th April – Trix, Antwerp
29^th April – Melkweg – MAX, Amsterdam
30^th April – Maassilo, Rotterdam
1^st May – Heimathafen Neukolln, Berlin
3^rd May – The Roxy, Prague
4^th May – Proxima, Warsaw
6^th May – Mojo, Hamburg
7^th May – Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld, Cologne