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HEADLINES
UK
Heavily supported across UK Radio including 4 Radio 1 playlists.
Festival performances including Reading / Leeds, T In The Park, Bestival, Oxygen, The Great Escape, Live at Leeds, Kendal Calling, Tramlines, Camden Crawl, Truck, Boardmasters, Hit The Deck, Strawberry Fields, Camden Rocks, XFM Big Night Out
DPU were beneficiaries of the BPI’s Music Export Growth Scheme receiving a grant and support to help introduce successful UK music projects overseas.
USA
Peninsula was the most played song at Alt Nation in February 2014
Headline radio show at Chicago House of Blues for WKQX
Strong Radio support for Peninsula Nationwide including several weeks as most played song at Alt Nation. Playlisted at Sirius “Alt Nation”, Music Choice, KRXP, WKQX, WEQX, WARQ, WBUZ, KITS, KNRK, KKDO, KFMA, KRZQ, WLKK, WIYY.
3 US Nationwide tours with You Me At Six, Middle Class Rut and Brand New
Festival performances at SXSW, CMJ, Common Ground
Europe
Toured with Pulled Apart By Horses as part of Dr Martens Stand For Something tour: Paris, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Amsterdam
Played with Royal Blood in Berlin
German tv performances on Joiz.tv and Tape.tv
Album release in GAS / Benelux: Early 2015
Japan
Peninsula EP released 16th July / Album release 20th October. Both released via A-Sketch / Amuse.
Promotional events organised around both Album and EP release including Tower Records.
Performed at Summersonic festival in Osaka (16th August) and Tokyo (17th August)
Further live dates / tour to be confirmed
Japanese website: http://www.dpu.jp/
India
Album released via Times of India
Tour / Live dates to be confirmed
Past Live
Have supported / toured with: Brand New, Middle Class Rut, Cage The Elephant, Pixies, Fidlar, You Me At Six, Lower Than Atlantis, Saves The Day, And So I Watched From Afar, New Model Army, The Kills