Currently hotter than your average chili pepper, Black Kids have announced an October and November UK tour.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, 18th July at 9am.

Wednesday 22nd October - Birmingham Academy
Thursday 23rd October - Oxford Academy
Monday 27th October - Leeds Met University
Tuesday 28th October - Cambridge Junction
Thursday 30th October - London Astoria
Saturday 1st November - Liverpool Nation
Sunday 2nd November - Portsmouth Pyramids Centre

Welsh emo-rockers Kids in Glass Houses have announced a new jaunt for May and early June around the UK, in support of their debut album on May 26th, ‘Smart Casual’.

Tickets for all dates seem to be about £8 each and are on sale now.

Wednesday 21st May - Middlesbrough Empire
Thursday 22nd May - Glasgow Garage
Friday 23rd May - Manchester Academy 3
Saturday 24th May - Liverpool Academy 2
Sunday 25th May - Leeds University
Tuesday 27th May - Oxford Zodiac
Wednesday 28th May - Birmingham Barfly
Thursday 29th May - Nottingham Rock City
Friday 30th May - Sheffield Leadmill
Saturday 31st May - Stoke Sugarmill
Monday 2nd June - Norwich Waterfront
Tuesday 3rd June - Exeter Phoenix
Wednesday 4th June - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Thursday 5th June - London Astoria 2

Black Kids have announced a summer UK tour, presumably around the festivals.

Tickets are (I believe) all on sale now, priced at £8 for all dates except for London which is £10 a ticket.

Monday 2nd June - Oxford, Academy
Tuesday 3rd June - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
Wednesday 4th June - Glasgow, King Tuts
Friday 6th June - Manchester, Academy 3
Saturday 7th June - Lancaster, Library
Sunday 8th June - York, Fibbers
Monday 9th June - Sheffield, Academy
Wednesday 11th June - Stoke, Sugarmill
Friday 13th June - Colchester, Arts Centre
Sunday 15th June - Norwich, Arts Centre
Monday 16th June - Northampton, Soundhaus
Wednesday 18th June - London, ULU
Tuesday 1st July - Bristol, Thekla
Wednesday 2nd July - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Thursday 3rd July - Leeds, Cockpit
Friday 4th July - Newcastle, Academy
Saturday 5th July - Liverpool, Barfly
Thursday 10th July - Brighton, Concord

This year’s Vice Live Tour has been announced, which sees Friendly Fires, Black KidsIpso Facto and all take to the road for four FREE shows.

To claim your tickets, you have to register over at Vice Live and then you can get your free tickets to one of the four shows around the country:

Wednesday 30th January - Glasgow ABC2
Thursday 31st January - Manchester Mint Lounge
Friday 1st February - London 93 Feet East
Saturday 2nd February - Bristol Fleece

XFM have announced details of a string of Winter Wonderland UK Tour dates, with all sorts of megastars lined up to play some sensational gigs.

As with previous years, all dates are in aid of Shelter, the homeless charity.

Tickets go on sale next Friday (9th November) at 9am, but many of the headlining bands and XFM members can get them as soon as next Wednesday or Thursday by pre-registering or such like.

Sunday 9th December - London Brixton Academy -
Bloc Party, Supergrass, Kate Nash, One Night Only, School of Rock Winner
Monday 10th December - Glasgow Academy -
Stereophonics, The Twang, Special Guests, Figure 5, School of Rock Winner
Tuesday 11th December - Manchester Apollo -
The Charlatans, Special Guests, The Courteeners, The Ting Tings, School of Rock Winner
Wednesday 12th December - Cardiff University -
Super Furry Animals, The Enemy, Kids In Glass Houses, Special guests, Duffy (accoustic set)

Photo is taken from Shane Bee’s flickr stream under the creative commons license

Long Beach band Cold War Kids have announced a new autumn tour. Well, to be honest I’m not sure how new is new, but NME has just alerted me to it, so we’ll go with fairly new.

They’ll play the below dates. Tickets vary between £11 each to £14 each.

Tuesday 23rd October - Wolverhampton Wulfren Hall
Wednesday 24th October - Manchester Academy
Thursday 25th October - Glasgow Barrowland
Saturday 27th October - Sheffield Leadmill
Monday 12th November - London Shepherds Bush Empire
Tuesday 13th November - Dublin Ambassador

Photo comes from hi-tekznologik’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons License.