FFAF – NEW SINGLE, VIDEO, ALBUM, TOUR!

Funeral For A Friend return with a vengeance in 2011 and new single Front Row Seats To The End Of The World is a heady taster of what’s to come.

The tune will be available from January 24 but a belting new video clip is doing the rounds on YouTube as we speak!

Drummer/vocalist Ryan Richards takes the lead on Front Row… and he said: “It was a lot of fun for me to do a lead vocal again on a track as it’s probably something I’ve not done since way back on the first record.

“And even then it was a co-vocal with Matt on tracks like Red Is The New Black and This Year’s Most Open Heartbreak. It’s also the first track I’ve ever done finger snaps on too!

“I remember reading the liner notes to Michael Jackson’s Bad and seeing him credited with ‘Vocals and Finger Snaps’ and it inspired me to one day be credited as such on one of our albums. I’ve now dreamed the dream – and it’s a beautiful thing.”

The new single precedes Funeral For A Friend’s fifth studio album, produced by Romesh Dodangoda, which will be released through Distiller Records in March. The band will also hit the road from March with a string of dates at intimate venues, some of which are in towns they’ve never actually played before. Support on these dates will come from fast rising British band Rise To Remain. The tour has now been expanded due to high demand.

FFAF live dates

Sun 13 Feb          London Borderline (w/ The Blackout)

Headline tour (with support from Rise To Remain)

Wed 16 Mar       Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Thu 17 Mar         Buckley Tivoli

Fri 18 Mar            Penrith Leisure Centre

Sat 19 Mar           Edinburgh Bongo Club

Sun 20 Mar         Glasgow King Tuts

Tue 22 Mar         Bury St Edmonds Apex

Wed 23 Mar       Birmingham Academy 2

Thu 24 Mar         Manchester Academy 3

Fri 25 Mar            London Relentless Garage

Sun 27 Mar         Liverpool 02 Academy

Mon 28 Mar       Stoke Sugarmill

Tue 29 Mar         Wakefield Black Flag

Wed 30 Mar       Durham Live Lounge

Fri 01 Apr             Poole Chords

Sat 02 Apr            Saltash Livewire

Sun 03 Apr          Wycombe Academy

Mon 05 Apr        Brighton Concorde 2

Tues 06 Apr        Coventry Kasbah

Thu 07 Apr          Gloucester Guildhall

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IQWqhQHkwc