The torment is over: Dirty Pretty Things return with new album

Carl Barat’s Dirty Pretty Things will release their second album this summer, over two years after debut effort Waterloo to Anywhere.

This is Where the Truth Begins has been mooted as a possible title for the record due for release on the 30th of June. A single will precede that by a week, ‘Tired of England’ emmigrating away from this bleeding lot on the 23rd:

‘Buzzards and Crows’
‘Hippy Son’
‘Plastic Hearts’
‘Tired of England’
‘Come Closer’
‘Fault Lines’
‘Kicks or Consumption’
‘Best Face’
‘Truth Begins’
‘Chinese Dogs’
‘The North’

May
14 Glasgow ABC
15 Aberdeen Moshulu
16 Dundee Fat Sam’s
18 Newcastle Northumbria University
19 Sheffield Leadmill
20 Manchester Ritz
22 Coventry Kasbah
23 Liverpool Carling Academy
24 Nottingham Rock City
25 Bristol Academy
27 London Astoria
28 Brighton Corn Exchange

July
4 London Hyde Park (Wireless Festival)

August
23 Reading Festival
24 Leeds Festival

Tickets for the band’s own tour dates – i.e. the non-festival ones - cost £15, except in London where they’re £17.50.