My Vitriol Announce 25th Anniversary ‘Finelines’ Celebration Show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire

My Vitriol are set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their landmark debut album, Finelines, with a massive headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The event will mark the band’s largest performance in over two decades, since their headline gig at the London Astoria in 2005.

The milestone celebrates 25 years since the release of Finelines, the cult classic that earned a three-star review from NME and was praised by readers as “an album perfect from start to finish.” The band will take the stage on Thursday, December 10, accompanied by support from InMe and Yourcodenameis:milo.

Tickets for the highly anticipated concert go on sale on Monday, August 24, and will be available online.

Finelines is widely recognized as the first Nugaze album, a term humorously coined by frontman Som Wardner. Following the album’s release, My Vitriol went on hiatus in 2002, briefly reuniting in 2005 for a show at the O2 Academy Islington, which was later released as the 2006 live album Cast In Amber. The band subsequently released the EPs A Pyrrhic Victory and War of the Worlds in 2007, before returning for a UK tour in 2017.

The support slot from Yourcodenameis:milo also hints at a potential reunion for the Sunderland band. After going on hiatus in 2007, they announced a return for charity concerts in 2020. Due to the pandemic, those gigs were postponed until April 2023. At the time, they expressed their desire to write a new full-length album, with frontman Paul Mullen telling NME, “I’ve got a whole folder on my hard drive of possible Milo songs from over the years… It just fills me with joy.”

Guitarist Justin Lockey shared their commitment to creating new material that honors their legacy, stating, “We’ve got to do something in a way that would honour what we did before – which is just don’t fucking care about anything else and make the heaviest thing we can.” He added that they have a wealth of unreleased tracks and are eager to share them, including the original Albini version of “All Roads To Fault.”

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