Maximo Park Reveal January Sideshows

Booked in for the Falls and Southbound festivals, Maximo Park have this morning announced their own headline dates in Sydney and Melbourne.

A powerhouse of the modern British indie movement, the band recently released their fourth album The National Health, which takes a pretty grim look at the world's state of affairs – rolling recession, chaos and frustration into the collection of tracks.

Frontman Paul Smith reckons that “The nation [the UK] is out of control and the record is about taking back control, and being a force for change in your own life. It can't speak for everybody but it has its eyes and ears all around us… that's always been a Maximo Park thing: look at yourself. See how you relate to yourself and hopefully someone else will have something in common with it. Our songs are built on empathy. I would hope it's as vital a music as people would want to hear.”

Support from both shows will come from rising upstarts Glass Towers, who'll you'll be hearing a lot more from very soon.

Dates are as follows, tickets on sale now:

Wednesday 2 January – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Thursday 3 January – The Hi-Fi, Sydney