As part of a global run of shows, the band have so far announced a handful of dates taking place across the country, starting in Brighton (28 May) before playing in Leeds (29 May), Edinburgh (31 May) and Bristol (1 June).
After a fairly extensive European run, including several festival slots, the band will return to the UK to play Liverpool’s O2 Academy on 9 July.
Support will come from Brooklyn electro-pop duo and fellow Matador labelmates Water From Your Eyes.
These dates will add to the band’s previously announced headline slot at Walton-upon-Trent’s Bearded Theory festival, where they’re topping the bill alongside Primal Scream and The Pretenders.
In July last year, Interpol released their seventh studio album, The Other Side of Make-Believe, written entirely during the pandemic.
More recently, the band were one of the acts spotlighted in the documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom, based on author Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral history of the early-2000s New York music scene.
The film, directed by award-winning filmmaking duo Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, delves into how the band’s sophomore album Antics was leaked via Napster. This incident speaks to a broader story of the time, during the advent of streaming.
It also figures them as understated yet popular, with Southern telling whynow that he deemed Interpol’s story one of the more surprising among the bands in the scene at the time when making the documentary.
“The Strokes opened the door for everybody else, but Interpol were very workmanlike,” he said. “It took them longer to get to where they were going; they were the tortoise to The Strokes’ hare.”
For fans to this day, here in the UK, they’ll be able to catch Interpol later in the year. See the list of dates below.
18 May – Monterrey, Pabellon M
20 May – Juarez, Tecate Supremo Festival
21 May – Guadalajara, Corona Capital
25-28 May – Walton-Upon-Trent, Bearded Theory
28 May – Brighton Dome, Brighton
29 May – O2 Leeds Academy, Leeds
31 May – The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh
1 June – O2 Academy Bristol, Bristol
4 June – Usina Festival, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
June 8-10 – Sideways Festival, Helsinki, Finland
9-11 June – Best Kept Secret Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
15 June – Munich, Neue Theaterfabrik
16-18 June – Traumzeit Festival, Duisburg, Germany
16-18 June – Maifeld Derby, Mannheim, Germany
23 June – 2023 Release Athens, Athens
24 June – I Days Coca-Cola, Milan, Italy
26 June – Turin, Officine Grandi Riparazioni
30 June – Summer Series at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
1 July – Rock Werchter, Rotselaar, Flanders
5 July – Days Off Festival, Paris, France
7 July – Beauregard Festival, Caen, Normandy
9 July – O2 Academy Liverpool, Liverpool
19-22 July – Ostrava, Colours of Ostrava Festival, Czech Republic
28 July – 2023 Low Festival, Benidorm, Spain
11-13 August – Outside Lands, San Francisco, USA
