Your Soundtrack For The Summer Has Arrived… ‘Ready For The Weekend’ Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris has confirmed the highly anticipated successor to gold selling debut album I Created Disco. Having successfully returned with two #1 singles Dance Wiv Me (with Dizzee Rascal) and I’m Not Alone, Calvin will release new album Ready For The Weekend through Columbia Records on August 17.
“What I’m into at the moment”, says Calvin Harris, “is the idea of stadium dance. Playing football stadiums with massive riffs, big hands-in-the-air moments.” A bold ambition, but such boldness is justified, coming from a man who ascended from the bedroom to the big time.
Calvin has come a long way since his trademark sound took over the charts in 2007. Now a sought after producer, international DJ and bonafide star, Calvin has picked up awards, collaborated with everyone from Kylie Minogue to Example, clocked up record sales well in excess of a million copies and sold out tours across the UK. Now he brings us the soundtrack to the summer 2009.
The first taster of the updated Calvin Harris sound I’m Not Alone went straight into the charts at #1 and is shaping up to be one of the biggest singles of the year. Harris calls it “a big stadium dance tune, somewhere between Snow Patrol, Faithless and Grandaddy”.
A more straightforwardly upbeat track, and next single on the new album, is Ready For The Weekend, featuring the formidable lungs of Mary Pearce (prolific backing singer for the likes of Beverly Knight, Lionel Richie and Chaka Khan), handbag house piano riffs, and the girl-friendly chorus “I put on my shoes and I’m ready for the weekend”. Ready For The Weekend is an electro pop master class that has all the hallmarks of another huge record and looks set to give Calvin his third number one in a row. Remixes on the single are courtesy of Fake Blood & Dave Spoon, with the amazing High Contrast completing the package in fine style
Says Calvin: “Ready For The Weekend’ is a good example of pop song meets piano house record, it’s my favourite thing I’ve done so far.”
Other key moments on the album include Relax (an acoustic guitar based track which has a similarly mixed mood to I‘m Not Alone), and Worst Day, (something of a N.E.R.D./Outkast sound, Calvin’s vocals sharing time with rapper Izza Kizza from Timbaland’s Mosley Music stable). All of which is guaranteed to mess with many people’s expectations of a Calvin Harris record. Following the rapturous response to his recent live dates, Calvin heads out on the road throughout the summer, including appearances at the summer festivals, with diverse slots from iTunes & T4 on the beach to Ibiza rocks & headlining the dance tent at Glastonbury.
Album: Ready For The Weekend released August 17.
Single: Ready For The Weekend released August 10.
Calvin has also announced a 20 date headline tour in October cementing his 2009 takeover.
Live Dates as follows:
Sunday 28 June – Glastonbury Festival
Tuesday 7 July - Ibiza Rocks
Friday 10 July – Wakestock, Abersoch, Wales.
Saturday 11 July – T In The Park, Scotland
Sunday 12 July - 09 Oxygen Festival, Ireland
Saturday 18 July iTunes Festival, The Roundhouse
Sunday 19 July – T4 On The Beach
Friday 31 July – Tiesto in Victoria Park
Sunday 2 August – FatBoy Slim , Marley Park , Dublin
Firday 7 August – Boardmasters Festival, Newquay
Saturday 22 August – V Festival Chelmsford
Sunday 23 August – V Festival, Staffordshire
Saturday 29 August – Rock En Seine, Paris
Sunday 30 August – Creamfields, Cheshire
Sunday 6 September – Bingley Festival
Thursday 15 October – Norwich – UEA
Friday 16 October – Bournemouth 02 Academy
Saturday 17 October – Oxford O2 Academy
Monday 19 October – Bristol O2 Academy
Tuesday 20 October – Preston 53 Degrees
Wednesday 21 October – Leeds O2 Academy
Friday 23 October – Newcastle O2 Academy
Saturday 24 October – Manchester Academy
Sunday 25 October – Nottingham Rock City
Tuesday 27 October - Brighton Corn Exchange
Thursday 29 – Birmingham O2 Academy
Friday 30 October – Sheffield O2 Academy
Sunday 1 November – Aberdeen Forum
Monday 2 November – Inverness Ironworks
Tuesday 3 November - Dundee Fat Sams
Wednesday 4 November – Glasgow O2 Academy
Headline tour tickets available from www.calvinharris.co.uk
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