Their sixth album, My Big Day, is released on 20th October 2023. It was produced by vocalist/guitarist Jack Steadman at The Church Studios in North London and then back at the band’s own studio. It features an eclectic host of guest vocalists that perfectly encapsulates the breadth of the band’s widespread appeal.
Damon Albarn, Jay Som, Nilüfer Yanya and Holly Humberstone all lend their voices across the course of the record, with a fifth special guest releasing a song with the band later this Summer.
To coincide with the album’s announcement, Bombay Bicycle Club have also shared the album’s title track, a crunching, infectious leftfield pop song painted in technicolour. It’s a typically unpredictable guitar song that the band revel in writing and are long since revered for.
Jack sits on both sides of the glass for the duration of the record, having previously produced their fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow, and co-production with John Congleton for 2020’s Everything Else Has Gone Wrong. Additional production comes from Paul Epworth on the track Heaven and Ben Allen who co-produces Turn The World On – the band previously worked with Allen on their hit single Shuffle back in 2011.
The record was mixed by Dave Fridmann (renowned for his work with The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT, HAIM).
The band play two intimate return shows in Ramsgate and London later this month, ahead of a series of UK/European festival appearances including Mad Cool, Y Not, Pukkelpop and WOMAD. The band will then embark on a spate of dates across the UK in association with record stores this Autumn in support of the album’s release, followed by a full European headline tour in November.
My Big Day Tracklisting:
Just A Little More Time
I Want To Be Your Only Pet
Sleepless (feat. Jay Som)
My Big Day
Turn The World On
Meditate (feat. Nilüfer Yanya)
Rural Radio Predicts The Rapture
Heaven (feat. Damon Albarn)
Tekken
Diving (feat. Holly Humberstone)
Onward
Bombay Bicycle Club Live:
14th June – The Granville Theatre, Ramsgate (intimate headline date)
15th June – EartH, London (intimate headline date)
18th June – 8 Festival, Lithuania
6th July – Mad Cool Festival, Spain
9th July – Otherside Festival, Ireland
26th July – Project House, Leeds
27th July – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire
28th July – WOMAD, London
30th July – Low Festival, Benidorm
4th August – Apple Tree Garden Festival, Germany
19th August – Pukkelpop, Belgium
20th August – Lowlands, The Netherlands
Instore/Outstore UK Live Dates:
19th October – PRYZM, London (in association with Banquet Records)
20th October – Rough Trade East, London
21st October – Pier, Portsmouth (in association with Pie & Vinyl)
22nd October – Marble Factory, Bristol (in association with Rough Trade)
23rd October – The Empire, Coventry (in association with HMV)
24th October – Content, Liverpool (in association with Jacaranda Records)
25th October – Liquid Room, Edinburgh (in association with Assai Records)
26th October – Fat Sam’s, Dundee (in association with Assai Records)
European Headline tour:
13th November – Riviera, Madrid
14th November – Sala Apolo, Barcelona
16th November – Alcatraz, Milan
17th November – Tonhalle, Munich
18th November – Docks, Lausanne
19th November – Docks, Hamburg
21st November – Trabendo, Paris
22nd November – Columbiahalle, Berlin
23rd November – Progresja, Warsaw
25th November – De Roma, Antwerp
26th November – Live Music Hall, Cologne
27th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
28th November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
