JACK PENATE ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER US TOUR 23 Jun 2009

Jack Peñate will be spending some quality time in the US for the first time
ever and we couldn't be more excited. We are very lucky to have him for a
full three week tour starting in mid-September!

Everything Is New is Jack's new record, and it will be released on August 18th
via XL Recordings.

Listen to the first single "Tonight's Today" here: http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/mp3/JackPenate_TonightsToday.mp3
Watch the video for "Tonight's Today" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-Oo5zPPt4
Watch the video for "Be The One" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKRchFtlkEI

Jack Peñate's debut album Matinée was just that...his beginning...the early show. 
He was, by his own admission, just a kid. A south London bedroom-boy-with-acoustic-guitar.
He ducked, he dived, he played tons of shows in the UK and a rare few in the US. 
In the UK Matinée went gold; the single, "Torn On The Platform",entered their charts
at Number 7 and he was even on the cover of the NME. Not a bad start at all, but his
sophomore album Everything Is New, is exactly that. He's starting fresh with a new
chapter and new sounds. He's ripped it up and started again. Total honesty, absolute
vision, complete control.

Everything Is New is in short, a soul record. Recorded over twelve intense months in
producer Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires)’s own west London home studio,
Everything Is New is a giant musical leap forward from this 24 year old Londoner’s
acclaimed debut album. This is a technicolour record full of experimentation and
possibility. The album fuses Peñate’s wide-eyed pop songwriting with the music he’s
always loved and lived, successfully bringing Brazilian Tropicalia, Krautrock, New Orleans
marching bands, Bashment, Afrobeat, lo-fi Hop Hop, Gospel, Reggaeton and Philly Soul
into the mix over a nine track record that delights and surprises at every turn.

The UK press has embraced his new sound and here are some of their accolades...

"It's a fabulous album" - GQ (UK)
"The songs are uniformly great...his songs are gloriously, unabashedly pop" - Guardian
"Jack Penate has made a record that's light on it's feet, has glamour bordering on sex
appeal and that doesn't make you with a fatwa upon it's author. It's a model for second
albums everywhere and a testament fo what can be achieved if you're prepared to take
a long, hard look at the man in the mirror" - NME

Jack Peñate / US Tour
(all dates except for 9/14 and 9/22 are with Miike Snow)
9/14 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
9/15 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
9/16 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
9/18 - Washington, DC - Rock N Roll Hotel
9/19 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
9/20 - Boston, MA - TT The Bear's
9/22 - Montreal, QUE - Le Petit Campus
9/23 - Toronto, ONT - Wrong Bar
9/25 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
9/26 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
9/29 - Vancouver, BC - Richard's on Richard's
9/30 - Seattle, WA - Neumo's
10/1 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
10/3 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
10/4 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo
10/5 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
10/6 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
10/7 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland