20th September – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
22nd September – Manchester – Academy 3
23rd September – Newcastle – Head Of Steam
25th September – Edinburgh – Mash House
26th September – Glasgow – Stereo
28th September – Southampton – The Loft
30th September – Amsterdam – Paradiso
4th October – Hamburg – Hebebühne
5th October – Berlin – Berghain Kantine
“If you have a vacancy for Favourite New Band, Pom Poko would like to apply for the role,” tweeted Tim Burgess in April last year, as Norway’s finest punk-pop anti-conformists revisited their joyous debut album, Birthday, for one of Tim’s mood-lifting Twitter listening parties. Pom Poko pimp their CV on all fronts with their glorious second album, Cheater, out early 2021. Between the quartet’s sweet melodies, galvanic punky ructions and wild-at-art-rock eruptions, Cheater is the sound of a band celebrating the binding extremes that make them so uniquely qualified to thrill: and,