The band, four young chaps from Sunderland in North East England, began life in Barry's freezing garage in November 2000. The name of the band was "more or less" nicked from The Flaming Lips.

In July 2002, they went off on tour round Europe with Milky Wimpshake. Their first release was the 'Nul Book Standard' on Project Cosmonaut Records, released on 7" only.

Later followed a session for Xfm's John Kennedy, who is most certainly one of their biggest fans. In early 2003, they released '1-2-3-Nul!' EP on Fantastic Plastic, following it with 'First Day' (charting at No. 1 in the indie chart), and festival appearences at Glastonbury, T in the Park, Truck, V2003 and Reading/Leeds.

Upcoming events

• Fri 23 May at Aberdeen Moshulu
• Sat 24 May at Dundee Fat Sam's
• Sun 25 May at Sheffield Leadmill
• Mon 26 May at Manchester Academy 2 (formerly MDH)
• Wed 28 May at Coventry Kasbah (formerly Colosseum)
• Thu 29 May at London Camden Electric Ballroom
• Fri 30 May at Southend-on-Sea Chinnery's
• Sun 01 Jun at Cambridge Junction
• Mon 02 Jun at Shrewsbury Buttermarket
• Tue 03 Jun at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms
• Glastonbury Saturday, Sat 28 Jun at Glastonbury Festival with Biffy Clyro, Massive Attack, Elbow, British Sea Power, Manu Chao, The Raconteurs
• Wakestock Sunday, Sun 29 Jun at Oxford Blenheim Palace with Supergrass, The Streets, Lightspeed Champion, Metronomy, Black Kids, Estelle

Releases

• This Is Not The World - album, out 26/05/2008. (post review)
• The Beginning Of The Twist - single, out 10/03/2008. (post review)
• Worry About It Later - single, out 31/07/2006 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Skip To The End - Digitalism Mixes (Download Only) - single, out 12/06/2006 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• News and Tributes - album, out 29/05/2006 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Skip To The End - single, out 22/05/2006 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Area - single, out 28/11/2005 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)? - single, out 21/11/2005 on EMI Records. 1 review (read/post)
• Decent Days And Nights - single, out 09/05/2005 on 679 Recordings. 1 review (read/post)
• Hounds Of Love - single, out 21/02/2005. 1 review (read/post)
• Meantime - single, out 11/10/2004 on 679 Recordings. (post review)
• Decent Days And Nights - single, out 26/07/2004 on 679 Recordings. (post review)
• The Futureheads - album, out 12/07/2004 on 679 Recordings. (post review)
• 1-2-3-NUL! - ep, out 10/03/2003 on Fantastic Plastic. 1 review (read/post)
• 1-2-3-NUL! - demo. 1 review (read/post)
• Twice The Town You'll Ever Be - album on Twice The Town. 1 review (read/post)
• Music and Song - demo. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Wakestock Sunday, Thu 08 May at Wales Abersoch. (post review)
• Wed 07 May at Dublin Academy. (post review)
• Tue 06 May at Glasgow ABC. (post review)
• Mon 05 May at Cardiff University. (post review)
• Thu 20 Mar at London Brixton Academy. (post review)
• Tue 11 Mar at Birmingham Barfly. (post review)
• Fri 07 Mar at Stoke-on-Trent Sugarmill. (post review)
• Thu 06 Mar at Oxford Academy. 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 05 Mar at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 03 Mar at Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University Stage 2. (post review)
• Sun 02 Mar at Edinburgh Liquid Rooms. (post review)
• Sat 01 Mar at Barrow-in-Furness The Canteen. (post review)
• Wed 27 Feb at Tamworth The Palace. (post review)
• Mon 25 Feb at Exeter Phoenix. (post review)
• Sat 23 Feb at Northampton Soundhaus. (post review)
• Tue 29 Jan at Bournemouth Old Fire Station. (post review)
• Mon 28 Jan at Norwich Waterfront. (post review)
• Sun 27 Jan at Leeds Mine @ Leeds University. (post review)
• Thu 24 Jan at Glasgow Strathclyde University Student's Union. (post review)
• Wed 23 Jan at Preston 53 Degrees. (post review)
• Tue 22 Jan at Liverpool Stanley Theatre. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 21 Jan at Hull The Asylum at Hull University. (post review)
• Sat 19 Jan at Loughborough University. (post review)
• Thu 17 Jan at Hatfield Hertfordshire University. (post review)
• Wed 16 Jan at Uxbridge Brunel University. (post review)
• Fri 07 Dec at Sunderland Independent (Formerly Bar 36). (post review)
• Thu 06 Dec at Sunderland Independent (Formerly Bar 36). (post review)
• Thu 29 Nov at London King's College. (post review)
• Wed 20 Dec at Newcastle upon Tyne Academy. (post review)
• Tue 05 Dec at London Astoria. (post review)
• Mon 04 Dec at Cambridge Junction. (post review)
• Sun 03 Dec at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms. (post review)
• Fri 01 Dec at Falmouth Princess Pavilion. (post review)
• Thu 30 Nov at Coventry University of Warwick. (post review)
• Wed 29 Nov at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. (post review)
• Mon 27 Nov at Sheffield Leadmill. (post review)
• Sun 26 Nov at Glasgow ABC. (post review)
• Sat 25 Nov at Preston 53 Degrees. (post review)
• Reading Festival 2006: Saturday, Sat 26 Aug at Reading Little John's Farm. 1 review (read/post)
• Truck Nine - Day 1 (Saturday), Sat 22 Jul at Steventon Hill Farm. (post review)
• Let's Rock! Edinburgh, Fri 21 Jul at Edinburgh Royal Highland Centre. (post review)
• Festival Internacional de Benicassim, Thu 20 Jul at Spain Benicassim. 1 review (read/post)
• Sun 11 Jun at Cardiff University. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 05 Jun at Norwich UEA. (post review)
• Sat 03 Jun at Nottingham Rock City. (post review)
• Wed 08 Mar at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. 1 review (read/post)
• Sat 17 Dec at London Earls Court Exhibition Centre. (post review)
• Sun 23 Jan at Nottingham Rock City. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 09 Dec at London ULU. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 15 Jul at London Hammersmith Working Mens Club. 1 review (read/post)
• Sun 04 Apr at Southampton The Joiners. 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 07 May at London Camden Barfly. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 11 Mar at London 100 Club. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 22/04/2008: Blessed relief: more names added to Radio 1’s Big Weekend
• 18/04/2008: The Great Escape: full Thursday schedule
• 18/04/2008: Jamie T, The Cribs, The National to headline Glastonbury's John Peel stage
• 16/04/2008: Watch: new Futureheads video
• 10/04/2008: Unveiled: the final addition to DiS' Great Escape bill
• 03/04/2008: Crystal Castles, Futureheads, These New Puritans to headline for DiS at Great Escape: line-up here
• 01/04/2008: It's Relentless: Ronson and Harris among new additions for Wakestock
• 18/03/2008: The Futureheads to tour, release new album in May
• 10/03/2008: Chart round-up: the winds of indifference
• 12/02/2008: DiS checks out new Futureheads material at Album Chart Show

Features

• 08/05/2008: WIN! Tickets to The Great Escape
• 10/03/2008: Singles Round-up (10/03/08)
• 07/03/2008: The Futureheads vs The Maccabees, part two
• 29/02/2008: First love: The Maccabees meet The Futureheads
• 14/02/2008: The Weekly DiScussion: The Valentine's Day Mixtape Massacre
• 01/02/2008: Eurosonic 2008: the DiS review
• 02/01/2008: Artist Mixtape #3: The Maccabees
• 02/01/2008: It's great in 2008, yeah: DiS's anticipated albums
• 06/07/2007: Carling Weekend 2006 - Saturday
• 11/04/2005: “Reissue! Repackage! Repackage!”

Links

• Futureheads pix - taken at Truck 2003
• The Futureheads - Find out more about the Futureheads
• The Futureheads - unofficial site

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