New York show announced at Elsewhere Zone One, Brooklyn on May 28th
UK Tour April / May 2026
London Headline at EartH on May 2nd
New UK and European Tour Dates Announced
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share ‘Kick Me’, a new live recording stitched together from the multitracks of 7 different performances, starting in London then flying to New York City and back in the space of 6 minutes. It ties together the best bits of each performance; some Wurlitzer by Seth Evans, a guitar line by Luke Mark, double drums from King David Ike-Elechi and Steve Noble as well as its standout moment: a transatlantic guitar solo shared between Ryley Walker and Tara Cunningham.
Tomorrow sees the release of My New Band Believe’s boundary pushing debut studio album, and with ‘Kick Me’ they take the same daring approach to live performance.
As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. When the group called it quits in 2023, the artist didn’t immediately feel like making a solo record or jumping back into another band. It was from this position of a not-quite team player, not-quite bandleader that Picton entered the studio and the seeds of My New Band Believe gradually began to emerge.
The group’s debut is a massive and hallucinatory record. It is a collection of music that swerves through wildly different emotional and thematic registers, all the while unraveling an endlessly compelling thread of dream logic. Picton is an unreliable but charismatic narrator. and together with a cast of all-star players including Kiran Leonard, Caius Williams, Steve Noble, Andrew Cheetham, he guides the listener through a rapidly unfolding multi-verse of the band’s making. With My New Band Believe, he not only comes into his own as a bandleader but arranges conflicting, fragmentary, and hysterical ideas until they form a brilliant new kind of sense.
My New Band Believe will be heading out on their debut headline tour across the UK in April / May 2026 followed by European tour dates in Oct/Nov. They will also be playing various instore shows, full details below.
INSTORE DATES
9th April – Banquet Records, Kingston
10th April – Rough Trade West, London
14th April – Crash Records, Leeds
15th April – Resident Records, Brighton
16th April – Pie & Vinyl, Portsmouth (afternoon)
16th April – Vinilo, Southampton (evening)
HEADLINE TOUR DATES
11th April – The Hague – Rewire Festival
28th April – Glasgow – Flying Duck
29th April – Leeds – Brudenell
30th April – Manchester – White Hotel (Sold Out)
2nd May – London – EartH
3rd May – Bristol – Rough Trade (Sold Out)
4th May – Cambridge – Unitarian Church* (Sold Out)
6th May – Oxford – Common Ground* (Sold Out)
*indicates workshop show
7th Oct – Amsterdam – Cinetol
11th Oct – Copenhagen – Stengade
13th Oct – Hamburg – Stubnitz
14th Oct – Berlin – TBA
15th Oct – Prague – Malostranská Beseda
17th Oct – Antwerp – Trix
19th Oct – Paris – Point Ephemère
21st Oct- Todmorden – Golden Lion
24th Oct – Edinburgh – Cabaret Voltaire
26th Oct – Liverpool – District
27th Oct – Cardiff – The Globe
28th Oct – Brighton – Concorde 2
31st Oct – Guimaraes – Mucho Flow Festival
2nd Nov – Madrid – Cadavra
3rd Nov – Barcelona – Paral.el.club
4th Nov – Milan – Arci Bellezza
5th Nov – Turin – Spazio 211
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