Doors 7.30pm

This is a 14+ show

Fountains Of Wayne’s long-awaited new album, Sky Full Of Holes, will be released by Lojinx in Europe on the 1st of August. This is the acclaimed band’s rst new release since 2007's Tra c And Weather. Recorded in New York City, Sky Full Of Holes features 13 new songs by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, ranging from high-energy power pop to intimate, acoustic-driven ballads.

Songs like The Summer Place and Richie And Ruben showcase the band’s renowned storytelling abilities and air for creating

memorable characters; elsewhere, they take a more impressionistic approach, as in the shimmering Someone’s Gonna Break Your Heart and the elegiac Cemetery Guns (a lyric from which provides the album’s title). In signature FOW fashion, the album manages to be simultaneously witty and wistful, imaginative and personal.
 

Formed in New York in 1996, Fountains Of Wayne took its name

from an iconic garden store in nearby Wayne, New Jersey (which, sadly, closed recently). The group’s line-up includes guitarist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young and has remained unchanged since they toured in support of their 1996 self-titled debut album. Fountains of Wayne were nominated for two Grammys, including a slightly belated Best New Artist nod, in

2003, after scoring a hit with their third album, Welcome Interstate Managers.
 

Sky Full Of Holes is the band’s fth full-length release (not including 2005’s two-disc B-side compilation Out-Of-State Plates). It was produced by Collingwood and Schlesinger and mixed by longtime collaborator John Holbrook, who also worked on Welcome Interstate Managers and Tra c And Weather.

Sky Full Of Holes will be released in Europe by Lojinx on the 1st of August 2011.