The Zutons has been announced as the latest act to perform at Caerphilly Castle this summer.
The indie-rock band will perform their album Who Killed The Zutons on Friday, July 12 to mark the 15th anniversary of the album.
The album, which spawned the hit singles Pressure Point, Remember Me, Confusion and You Will You Won’t, was first released in 2004, with BBC Music calling it “an ambitious but fully accomplished debut” and NME hailing it as “a fine debut that hints at a finer future.”
It garnered a Mercury Prize nomination, and went on to go Double-Platinum by selling more than 600,000 copies in the UK.
The band released the song Valerie in 2006, which was covered by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse a year later.
The band broke up in 2009 but reunited once more in 2016 for a fundraising event. They will now tour together again this spring.
The Zutons frontman Dave McCabe said: “We’ve all been off doing our own thing for a little while, and it’s only with hindsight and a bit of space that you see how special something really is. It’s easy to take things for granted when you’re younger, but now it’s just amazing to think of those songs still having a place in the world, and for people to come and hear us play them again.”
Tickets will go on general sale on Friday, February 15 at 10am. Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster and locally through Blackwood Miners’ Institute.
Caerphilly Castle will also host punk-rock group The Stranglers this summer. The group will perform on Friday, July 5 and perform hits including Golden Brown, Peaches and No More Heroes.
Reggae-influenced punk-rock band The Ruts DC will also perform at the castle on July 5.
US Rockers Black Stone Cherry will play at Caerphilly Castle on Saturday, July 13 – the day after the Zutons perform at the venue.
The Zutons will be joined on stage by a number of special guests who are yet to be confirmed.