THE VIEW RELEASE COMPILATION ALBUM ‘SEVEN YEAR SETLIST’

AND NEW SINGLE ‘STANDARD’ ON JUNE 17TH ON COOKING VINYL

Band to support the Stone Roses at Glasgow Green on June 15th


Pre-release album show at London’s Borderline and nationwide Propaganda club tour also confirmed



After making a glorious return with last year’s Top 10 album ‘Cheeky For A Reason’, which received numerous glowing reviews – some of the best of the band’s career so far - and also saw them winning the Best Music Award 2012 at the Sunday Mail’s Great Scot Awards and Album of the Year 2012 at the Nordoff Robins Tartan Cleff Scottish Music Awards, The View have compiled some of their finest moments to date on the ‘Seven Year Setlist’ album which will be released on June 17th on Cooking Vinyl, the same day as their brand new single ‘Standard’.

To celebrate the release of ‘Seven Year Setlist’, The View have also just announced an exclusive one-off intimate pre-release album show in London at The Borderline on Monday 10th June, before they support the legendary Stone Roses in front of 50,000 people at Glasgow Green on June 15th. The band will also be touring throughout May and June with Propaganda – the UK’s biggest indie night.

‘Seven Year Setlist’ spans The View’s journey to date from ‘Face For The Radio’ which originally featured on their self-titled debut EP which was released in 2006 up to the present day with three new songs in the shape of the first single ‘Standard’ (out June 17th) as well as ‘Dirty Magazine’ and ‘Kill Kyle’. Along the way, it visits the #3 hit ‘Same Jeans’, ‘Wasted Little DJs’ which won Best Track at the NME Awards, another Top 15 hit with ‘Superstar Tradesman’, a Dirty Version of the ‘Which Bitch?’ album highlight ‘ Shock Horror’ and ‘How Long’, the first single and opening track from ‘Cheeky For A Reason’ which was accompanied by a video starring Red Road / A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints actor Martin Compston.

"Over the years theres been four studio albums, thousands of gigs, too much vodka and loads of memories on this crazy rock n roll journey,” says vocalist / guitarist Kyle Falconer. “So we wanted to create an album that was kinda like stopping and looking back over the years - with a few new tracks too. That’s the Seven Year Setlist.”

The new material on the album reunites the band with Owen Morris (Oasis, The Verve) who produced their Mercury Prize-nominated, #1 album ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’. The majority of the songs on the album were written by Falconer and bassist Kieren Webster, and features further production courtesy of Mike Crossey (Artic Monkeys, Foals) and Youth (Primal Scream).

The full album tracklisting is:

Kill Kyle
Grace
Wasted little DJs
5 Rebeccas
How Long
The Don
Skag Trendy
Realisation
Face For The Radio
Tacky Tattoo
The Clock
Standard
Underneath The Lights
Tragic Magic
Same Jeans
Dirty Magazine
Superstar Tradesman
Sunday
Shock Horror
Distant Doubloon
Standard (original album mix)


The View –completed by guitarist Pete Reilly and drummer Steven Morrison were formed in Dundee in 2005 by four former school friends. They have since hit the charts with all four of their albums – ‘Hats Off To The Buskers’ (#1), ‘Which Bitch?’ (#3), ‘Bread and Circuses’ (#14) and ‘Cheeky For A Reason’ (#9) – accumulated over 3.5 million views at YouTube and have excelled at numerous major festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds , T in the Park and One Big Weekend. Highlights of their recent tours include headlining to almost 7000 people over three Scottish shows split between Dundee’s Caird Hall and Glasgow’s Barrowlands, as well as a raucous set at Rockness which was abandoned due to safety fears and upgraded to a bigger tent due to the phenomenal turnout from fans.

The band recently completed their first full North American coast-to-coast tour which included a sold-out show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, a date at famous Los Angeles venue The Troubadour and a set at SXSW. The View’s summer touring plans are as follows:

May

10th – Dundee, 20 Rocks
11th – Dundee, 20 Rocks
12th – Dundee, 20 Rocks
17th – Mighty Boof At The Playground festival (headliners)
24th – Birmingham, O2 Academy (Propaganda club night)
25th – Newcastle, O2 Academy (Propaganda club night)
31st – Sheffield, O2 Academy (Propaganda club night)

June

1st – Leeds, O2 Academy (Propaganda club night)
7th – London, O2 Academy Islington (Propaganda club night)
8th – Oxford, O2 Academy (Propaganda club night)
10th – London, Borderline
14th – Northampton, The Roadmender (Propaganda club night)
15th – Glasgow Green (support to Stone Roses)
21st – Glasgow, O2 ABC (Propaganda club night)
22nd – Edinburgh, The Picture House (Propaganda club night)


July


7th – Delamere Forest, Northwich (supporting The Charlatans)
13th – T in the Park

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