Delighted to share with you all the new lyric video for the latest track from “CLEAVE”….”Success? Success Is Survival”. Read where the inspiration for the track came from and watch below!

(Not afraid to speak about injustices, vocalist Andy Cairns explores some of the nature in the lyrics commenting: “The song is about the growing divide between the haves and have-nots.” And the societal views in the track “Vladimir Lenin said, ‘Capitalist society, is and has always been horror without end’. The opening line of the track is “the cream of this country, rich and thick” and is paraphrased from Samuel Beckett to describe his patrons at Portora School for Boys in Enniskillen (i.e. rich, entitled). This then leads into the pre-chorus “that’s the order that’s been set, we’re expected to accept” this looks at how a ‘caste’ system is increasing. The second verse contrasts this with imagery of desperate immigrants who regularly risk their own and their children’s lives to cross perilous water. The title and chorus of the song comes from Leonard Cohen. Asked in an interview in the early 70’s what his definition of success was he replied “Success? Success is survival”.)

Pleased to finally confirm we will be back in Leeds Brudenell on 23rd September for TWO shows and another visit to The Cluny in Newcastle the following day (24th). Leeds will have a FREE matinee show for everyone who missed the full set at our Nov 2018 gig (see full press release and info below, please read carefully!) and a ticketed full headline show later that night. Looking forward to seeing all our friends there again!

“Therapy? have announced a brand new show at Leeds Brudenell Social Club on Monday 23rd September. This will include a matinee starting at 6:30pm which all ticket holders from the previous Leeds show in November 2018, (which due to unforeseen circumstances had to be cut short during ‘Screamager’, with 12 songs left to play),are invited to attend free of charge. Therapy? will be starting with ‘Screamager’ and playing the rest of the set list from the abandoned evening.  As a ticket holder for the previous Therapy? Leeds show you are able to confirm a place at this matinee by emailing enquiries@themjrgroup.com with your name and confirmation you can attend. You have until Friday 21st June to claim your place.”

Please note: This does not include a ticket for the main show and is for the matinee only. The main show starts from 8.00pm and tickets for that can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/therapy-brudenell-social-club-leeds-tickets-62505286996

Summer is on the way so here’s our latest update on all confirmed festivals for this year! Click on the links for more info/tickets and keep an eye here or over at Facebook/Twitter for future updates…

May 10 Wild In’t Park, Belgium
June 01 Big Fish Day, Italy
June 29 A Big Day Out (Halifax), UK

June 30 A Big Day Out (Glasgow), UK
July 13 2000 Trees Festival, UK
July 20 Footfest, Czech Rep
July 25 Curtarock, Italy

July 26 Rock Olmen, Belgium

July 27 Trebur Open Air, Germany
Aug 02 Porispere, Finland
Aug 09 Boomtown Fair, UK

Aug 10 Lokersee Feesten, Belgium

Aug 22 EDP Vilar De Mouros, Portugal
Aug 24 CHSq, UK
Sept 21 FEILE ’19, Ireland
Oct 05 Indie Daze, UK

Four weeks today until our Irish/N.I tour starts! Delighted to have The Wood Burning Savages along with us and really looking forward to playing a ton of old and new tunes for you. Gonna be mega!

20^th March NERVE CENTRE, Derry/Londonderry

21^st March ROISIN DUBH, Galway

22^nd March DOLANS WAREHOUSE, Limerick

23^rd March CYPRUS AVENUE, Cork

24^th March SPIRIT STORE, Dundalk (SOLD OUT)

Tix/more info…https://bit.ly/1inrN4u

Watch/buy/stream new tune “Kakistocracy”…https://fanlink.to/kakistocracy

Our latest track from CLEAVE, “Kakistocracy” is out now! You can buy/stream it HERE and watch the video below.

Just winding things up here for 2018 and what a year it’s been! We hit the floor running at the start of January with the recording of CLEAVE with Chris Sheldon (bizarrely exactly 25 years to the day we first worked with him waaay back in Jan 1993 recording what became the Short Sharp Shock EP). Soon after the album was done we hooked up with the good folks at Marshall Records who brilliantly shared our creative vision and we inked a new deal with them.

In March we were lucky enough to go out on an extensive UK run supporting one of our big influences The Stranglers. It was an amazing experience playing with them, great crowds and a lovely atmosphere both onstage and off. They looked after us incredibly well so respect to them and their crew.

We debuted the first single CALLOW at the BBC Music Festival in Belfast and then over the summer we played number of high profile festivals in the UK and Europe (playing in some of the new CLEAVE tunes as we went along) which as usual was a fantastic experience.

All the while we were chipping away at the preparation for CLEAVE and it was released end of September to pretty much universal critical acclaim from friends, fans and the press. Always a good feeling when you’ve been working on new stuff and it finally gets unleashed.

Both the CLEAVE European/UK headline tours were incredible, each and every show was highly enjoyable (sometimes for a variety of reasons ;)) and we did our best to play long sets with as much new stuff and as many of the ‘hits’ as possible. You all ran with it, singing along and getting well into the spirit of it all.

Rest assured 2019 will be just as busy, we have a 2nd European CLEAVE headline run starting Jan 23rd (getting to a few places we missed on the first bit, Austria, Czech Rep, Hungary, Italy, France as well as Belgium, Netherlands and Germany), then a short Finnish tour and then some NI/Irish dates to boot. Festivals are coming in now as well and we already have some nice ones in place and we’ll be announcing those when we get the nod from the organisers. All these dates are up over at the official site HEEEEERRRRRRRRRRE

And to coincide with those January shows we will have a new single/video from CLEAVE out called “Kakistocracy (It’s Ok Not To Be Ok)” so we’ll give you a heads up when you can see/hear that.

Also plotting some things for the upcoming 30th anniversary celebrations in 2020, we’d be mad not to have some sort of party(parties?) with you all so that’ll all be announced in due course once we have a better idea of where we’re at.

As we always say, none of this would be possible without your ongoing support so a hearty “thank you” to each and everyone of you folks and, as cliched as it sounds, you people are the best!

Right, have a lovely festive/holiday time, put your feet up and have a blast. Stay safe and every best wish for 2019!

Andy-Michael-Neil T? 2018

Ok folks, if you are planning on ordering any music/clothing from our store in time for Xmas, please note the last postal dates for Xmas 2018 as below…

Ireland                20^th December

N. Ireland           19^th   “

UK                      18^th  “

Europe               18^th  “

USA                    10^th  “

Rest of World      7^th    “

Indeed CLEAVE is out and available to buy/stream now! Album number 15 has arrived and we are very excited you are all finally getting a listen. If you haven’t already got round to snagging a copy there’s a plethora of options to do so on the link…

GET CLEAVE HERE

The second single for CLEAVE is out right now and you can buy/stream HERE. It’s the opening track from our forthcoming 15thalbum CLEAVE which is due 21st September. You can also watch the official lyric video is below…