The band from Kettering will begin the tour in Leeds on the 7^th September, before playing in Manchester, Nottingham, London, Bristol, and Brighton. They’ll also be playing gigs in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland this autumn concluding in Nürnberg on the 6^th October.

Temples will also be playing several festivals this summer including Musilac in France and Summer Well Festival in Romania. For tickets and more information see here. Last July, Temples supported Pearl Jam for their second day headlining the BST Hyde Park festival.

The band took to social media to share their excitement writing, “EUROPE our EXOTICO tour is now LIVE! we can’t wait to see you all in September & October”.

Exotico, Temples’ fourth studio album, was released on the 14^th April via ATO. The 16-track LP was produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed by Dave Fridmann who has previously worked with many other psych acts including Beach House, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, and MGMT. Full of funky, bass-heavy, synthy summery tunes, Exotico mixes “Acid House meets Arabic Dancefloor!” as bass guitarist Thomas Walmsley adequately put it to It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.

Listen to the lead single from the album “Gamma Rays” below:

Exotico took three years to be released and was a product of the pandemic. “Writing began in 2020, around when the world stopped moving,” Walmsley said. “We’d just had a tour cut short due to the pandemic and I guess as a musician you try to alter focus and throw yourself into writing, for better or for worse, we wrapped up recording in 2022. It’s definitely longer than we’d hoped to take, but I think the process ended up making the best record.” 

Temples formed just over a decade ago as a home studio project. Lead singer James Bagshaw and Walmsley were originally in rival bands in their hometown but eventually teamed up to play in the band The Moons. The demos the duo uploaded to YouTube caught the attention of Heavenly Recordings founder Jeff Barrett who released the band’s debut single “Shelter Song” in 2012. Watch the video for “Shelter Song” below:

Their debut album, Sun Structures, reached number 7 in the UK in 2014 and their follow up three years, Volcano, later peaked at the 23rd spot.

Since then, the band has undergone a few revisions with the current lineup consisting of Bagshaw and Walmsley as well as Adam Thomas Smith on rhythm guitar and keyboards, and Rens Ottink on drums.

See below for Temples’ upcoming Europe and UK dates:

08/07/23 – Musilac – Aix-les-bains
14/07 – Festival Chauffer dans la Noirceur – Montmartin-sur-mer
11/08 – Summer Well Festival – Buftea
07/09 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
09/09 – Band on the Wall – Manchester
10/09 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
11/09 – Koko – London
13/09 – The Fleece – Bristol
14/09 – Patterns – Brighton
16/09 – Le 106 – Rouen
17/09 – Chabada – Angers
18/09 – La Cigale – Paris
19/09 – Le Botanique – Bruxelles
20/09 – Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing
24/09 – Gebäude 9 – Cologne
26/09 – THT/Paradiso Noord – Amsterdam
28/09 – SO36 – Berlin
29/09 – Ampere – Munich
01/10 – Les Docks – Lausanne
02/10 – Plaza Club and Bar – Zürich
03/10 – La Belle Electrique – Grenoble
04/10 – La Cooperative de Mai – Clermont-ferrand
05/10 – Artefact La Laiterie – Strasbourg
06/10 – Nürnberg Pop – Nürnberg

The six date American tour will follow a packed summer schedule for the space rock outfit which will see them play at a number of European venues along with a fair few festivals, and will see them return to a couple of venues they visited on their previous visit to North America in September of last year (namely, White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ and Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA).

The announcement came yesterday via the group’s twitter page and will no doubt excite their East coast American fans who will get to see the band again in such a short space of time.

Spiritualized® Live™ US
Local pre-sales from (10AM local time) 05.10.2023 – (10PM local time) 05.11.2023
General on-sale (12PM local time) 05.12.2023 https://t.co/xqiUt3Pqv4 pic.twitter.com/M5rwtBQOXf

— Spiritualized® (@officialSpzd) May 9, 2023

Spiritualized were formed in 1990 by frontman Jason Pierce (J Spaceman) following the disbanding of his previous group, Spacemen 3, after a series of fall outs with former co-frontman Peter Kember (Sonic Boom). Pierce subsequently brought with him to Spiritualized fellow Spacemen 3 members Will Carruthers, Mark Refoy and Jonny Mattock to form the new space rock outfit.

The band released its debut album, Lazer Guided Melodies, in 1992, incorporating more of a shoegaze element along with the distinctive spacey, psychedelic sound of Spacemen 3, and with their next album, Pure Phase (1995) came a slight delve into britpop, all the while maintaining a keen appetite for space rock. Their third album, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, released in 1997, became their most successful and most well-known release, peaking at number four in the UK Albums Chart and being named NME’s Album of the Year.

Listen to “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space” below:

Spiritualized have since become space rock pioneers and have amassed a huge cult following, and have released a total of nine studio albums, the latest of which, Everything Was Beautiful, was released in April 2022 on Fat Possum Records. The group’s current lineup consists of Jason Pierce (vocals, guitar), John Coxon (guitar, keyboard), Doggen Foster (guitar), James Stelfox (bass), Kevin Bales (drums) and Tom Edwards (keyboards).

See below for the US tour dates:

06/11/2023 – White Eagle Hall – New Jersey, NJ
07/11 – Asbury Hall – Buffalo, NY
08/11 – Basilica Hudson – Hudson, NY
09/11 – Mr Smalls Theatre – Millvale, PA
11/11 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
12/11 – Webster Hall – New York, NY

You can purchase tour tickets from May 12th here.