Returning west Londoners The Mystery Jets are making up for lost time in joyous splurges of activity.

Most pressing is the news that new single ‘Young Love’, which features Laura Marling among the usual love and loss, will be available for just 50 pence at 7digital.com this week. Find the video lurking some way below.

The band follow that with a performance at Pure Groove record shop in North London next Monday (10 Mar), rolling up at 6.30 for the free instore. If you’re lucky, they’ll play new album track ‘Two Doors Down’, if not you’ll just have to imagine Squeeze singing Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)’.

Anyway, back to business – a live tour will commence next month in Manchester. No waffle, just lots of dates:

April
13 Manchester Night & Day
14 Carlisle Brickyard
15 Middlesbrough Mims/Cornerhouse
17 Glasgow ABC
18 Edinburgh Hive
19 Newcastle Cluny
21 Sunderland Independent
22 Sheffield Plug
23 Norwich Arts Centre
24 London Scala
26 Exeter Cavern
27 Winchester Railway Inn
28 Oxford Academy
30 Southampton Joiners

May
1 Bournemouth Fire Station
2 Cambridge Barfly
3 Cardiff Ifor Bach
5 Bath Moles
6 Wrexham Central Station
7 Stoke Sugarmill
9 Northampton Soundhaus
10 Derby the Royal
11 Hull the Welly
12 Leeds Brudenell
14 Swindon One-Two Bar
15 Birmingham Barfly
16 Leicester the Charlotte
17 Brighton Digital
24 Bristol Dot to Dot festival
25 Nottingham Dot to Dot festival
26 York Fibbers
27 Liverpool Eat Your Own Ears
28 London Forum Charity Show

And, just because we somehow managed to overlook them when they were announced, the album details. Twenty One is released on the 24th of March, carrying with it the following tracks:

‘Hideaway’
‘Young Love’ (feat. Laura Marling)
‘Half in Love With Elizabeth’
‘Flakes’
‘Veiled in Grey’
‘Two Doors Down’
‘MJ’
‘Umbrellahead’
‘Hand Me Down’
‘First to Know’
‘Behind the Bunhouse’

DrownedinSound’s heard the follow-up to the act’s 2006 debut and ‘ace’ is probably the most appropriate word – an interview with the band will run on the site next week.

Photo: Holly Erskine