The Music will tour this summer to support the release of their new album.

Strength in Numbers is the follow-up to 2004’s overreaching and ultimately self-destructive Welcome to the North and it arrives on the 16th of June through Polydor subsidiary Yes Please.

Before that, these sold out shows will take place as part of the band’s ‘Four Cities’ dates – where The Music visit Manchester, Leeds, London and Glasgow in consecutive months, jumping to bigger venues each time.

Itinerary, including the next Four Cities dates in July:

June
15 Isle of Wight Festival
16 Cardiff University
18 Liverpool Academy
19 Newcastle University
20 Sheffield Leadmill
22 Bristol Bierkeller
23 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
25 Norwich Waterfront
26 Cambridge Junction
27 Oxford Academy

July
1 Manchester Academy
2 Leeds Town Hall
4 London Astoria
5 Glasgow ABC

Tickets for all dates cost £13.50, apart from in London where they're £15. Find them at SeeTickets.com or here, (Glasgow).