Seattle-spawned experimental popsters Minus The Bear - whose third album Planet Of Ice receives its official UK release on September 10 - have confirmed their UK dates for the winter.

Following this previous article, the five-piece's dates now look like this:

December
6 Yeovil Orange Box
7 Cardiff Club Ifor Bach
8 Milton Keynes The Pitz
9 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
10 Sheffield Corporation
11 Leeds Cockpit
12 Glasgow King Tuts
13 Manchester Academy 3
14 Birmingham Barfly
15 Oxford Zodiac
17 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
18 Colchester Arts Centre
20 London Mean Fiddler

Planet of Ice is the follow-up to 2005's well-received Menos El Oso, review here.

MySpace here. Photograph by Ryan Russell.