Airdrie sextet Flood Of Red have had quite an industrious internship into their musical education this year. In the video below we see the band perform their current single ‘Home Run, 1997′ acoustically. We hope you enjoy it!

Tours with We Are The Ocean (November) and The Xcerts (December) announced

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Jordan Spiers – vocals | Sean McGroarty – guitar | Calum Doris – guitar & backing vocals  |  Jamie McGowan – bass guitar | Dale Gallacher – keyboards | Graham Griffith – drums

Following the release of Flood of Red’s debut album through their own label Dark City exclusively at www.floodofred.co.uk, the band will be hitting the road hard on the lead-up to Christmas.

Firstly, the band head out with We Are The Ocean next week. Vocalist Jordan says about the announcement of Flood of Red’s addition to the tour – “We have never really had the chance to play a good set of shows with We Are The Ocean and we’re all stoked about it. With both our debut albums recorded with producer Brian McTernan and both out this very year, it’s an exciting time for both our bands.”

Of The Xcerts Christmas Tour in Scotland, Jordan has the following to say – “The Xcerts are one of the most talented young bands out there and we have been good friends with them for several years now. Every opportunity we get to play with each other is an enjoyable one. Expect lots of crazy festive surprises when we pair up to tour in December, it’s gonna be awesome!”

Flood Of Red formed in Airdrie, a satellite town twelve miles east of Glasgow in 2004. Starting out as a trio who met via school and the local skate scene, they soon expanded to a sextet. The band went straight out on tour just months after their formation, all aged just seventeen. Fast-forward to January 2nd 2009 when Flood Of Red flew to Baltimore, Maryland where they spent a month recording their debut album with punk rock extraordinaire producer Brian McTernan  (Cave In, Thrice, Converge) in his Salad Days studio. Having been so far on their journey up to this point, Flood Of Red are now more than ready to share their lovingly crafted debut full-length with the world as they continue to tour tirelessly in support of the record.

Supporting WE ARE THE OCEAN on tour –

18 Nov 2009        White Rabbit      PLYMOUTH

19 Nov 2009        Le Pub                  NEWPORT

20 Nov 2009        The Pitz                MILTON KEYNES

21 Nov 2009        Rescue Rooms  NOTTINGHAM

23 Nov 2009        O2 Academy 2   BIRMINGHAM

24 Nov 2009        Academy 3          MANCHESTER

25 Nov 2009        King Tuts              GLASGOW

26 Nov 2009        Cockpit                 LEEDS

29 Nov 2009        Arts Centre         COLCHESTER

30 Nov 2009        Concorde 2         BRIGHTON

1 Dec 2009           Electric Ballroom               LONDON

DECEMBER SCOTLAND TOUR WITH THE XCERTS

10 Harley’s          Bathgate
11 Devitos           Arbroath
12 Twa Tam’s     Perth
13 The Cell          Kilmarnock
15 Electric Circus Edinburgh
19 Dog House    Dundee
20 King Tuts        Glasgow
21 Ironworks      Inverness

22 Tunnels          Aberdeen

Record Label: Dark City

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Flood Of Red: new heroes of British post-hardcore or whiney emo bitches? Yesterday, this reviewer would have plumped for the latter, but a second play through of the Airdrie sextet’s debut album ‘Leaving Everything Behind’ makes me glad that I hung fire. The main problem that my past, admittedly rather dickish, self had with the album still remains – there’s simply not enough variation between songs to sustain interest throughout all its 14 tracks. I may have the attention span of a 12-year-old mainlining Sunny D, but about five songs in I switched off mentally and just let Flood Of Red’s dense sound wash over me like waves of lukewarm porridge. Emo-charged lines like “I’m a candle that’s blown out” and “I’m so scared about everything” would occasionally elicit a hollow groan, but generally I was happy to let Flood Of Red bash away in the background while I surfed 4chan to find out what the basement dwelling wretches of |B| were up to.

So how come ‘Leaving Everything Behind’ sounds so very different today? This is what it’s like to stare at one of those magic eye pictures for hours and then suddenly see the God damn sailboat. Why did I not appreciate lead vocalist Jordan Speirs’ delicate delivery, contrasting the group’s heavy instrumentals? How nice is it that he sings with a Scottish accent rather than those annoyingly ersatz Mid-Atlantic tones some bands affect? And while there might not be enough variation between tunes, there is movement enough within them – the epitome of this being ‘Like Elephants’, which restarts three quarters of the way in with a solo piano before building up to great heights. Tricks like this help keep things fresh; I would still argue that ‘Leaving Everything Behind’ is too homogenous for anyone but a true fan to really relish listening to it in one sitting, but taken individually tunes such as ‘The Harmony’, ‘A Place Before The End’, ‘I Will Not Change’ and ‘Losing All Balance In Fells Point’ are pretty fine. This reviewer also found his battered old heart strings tugged by ‘Little Lovers’, which is likely not the majority view but this ain’t no steenkin’ democracy.

Oh, and just so you know, “I’m a candle that’s blown out” and ‘I’m so scared about everything” both appear in songs that I now rather adore. Dear Flood Of Red, sorry I was a hater – maybe when I listen to ‘Leaving Everything Behind’ for a third time I’ll return and bump the score up by yet another star…

Check out the Airdrie trio’s new video for ‘Home, Run (1997)’. Their new album ‘Leaving Everything Behind’ is due out in October. We stumbled across this video, let us know what you think please…Oh, and the guys set off on their own UK headline tour on 29th September at London’s Garage. Check out their Myspace for more details people. Video below;