DIY & Dr. Martens team up for #STANDFORSOMETHING Tour

Once more with feeling. That’s what they say, right? Music is always best when it’s got some guts behind it - a reason to exist. When it’s live, sweaty and in your face. With that in mind, it’s with enormous delight we’re teaming up with Dr. Martens to present the #STANDFORSOMETHING tour.

Five cities, five shows, five amazing headliners who produce music from the heart. Over the autumn we’ll be bringing the party to Manchester, Bristol, London, Nottingham and Glasgow to give you the best Saturday night you’ve had all year.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be announcing who we’re bringing along for the ride. First on the team sheet are Young Guns, who’ll be headlining the Bristol leg on 12th October.

‘I think there’s an intimacy and a specialness about playing little sweaty shows that we’ve never grown out of loving,’ frontman Gus Wood ponders. ‘It’s one of our only shows this year, which is gonna make it a lot of fun, and it’s in a part of the country that we’re close to. I’m really excited for it.’

It could well be one of the last chances to see them for a while too, as they’re about to start work on the follow up to 2012’s ‘Bones’. ‘We’ve been over in America, really, since September last year. It’s been a lot of fun, but now we’re in a place where we really need to get on and do the new record.’

What do you stand for, Gus Wood?
‘People can do whatever they want if they’re willing to put their head down and work for it. For me, at least, that’s very much what the band is about: it’s shown me the meaning of working hard and being passionate about something that you love. That’s really important.’

Tickets will be available later this month; sign up at drmartens.com to be kept up to date.

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