A CERTAIN RATIO NEXT PHASE OF REISSUES ANNOUNCED FOR SPRING 2018

A Certain Ratio announce details of the next phase of reissues on Mute, acr:mcr and I’d Like To See You Again will be released on 23 March with Good Together and Up In Downsville following on 27 April 2018.

The reissues are part of the ongoing collaboration with Mute that started with The Graveyard And The Ballroom, To Each and Force. The forthcoming releases, including the long out of print albums acr:mcr and Good Together will be followed by Sextet, Mind Made Up, Change The Station and a new compilation with recently recorded tracks plus various box sets that will include rare and previously unreleased material, in a campaign that is set to run over the next three years.

Listen to 'Be What You Wanna Be' from acr:mcr here: https://youtu.be/GPTwX_FMwG8

A Certain Ratio (Jez Kerr, Donald Johnson, Martin Moscrop, Denise Johnson, Tony Quigley and Liam Mullan) will embark on a UK tour in the spring, following last year’s incredible sold out hometown performance in Manchester. The tour kicks off on 16 March in Newcastle and includes a date in London on 21 April and at Atmosphere Festival at Seel Park in Mossley, full details below.

A CERTAIN RATIO UK TOUR

16 March - Newcastle, Hoochie Coochie

17 March - Glasgow, Stereo

24 March - Bristol, Fiddlers Club w/ Sink Ya Teeth

25 March - Brighton, The Haunt w/ Sink Ya Teeth

21 April - London, Garage w/ Sink Ya Teeth

18 May - Hebden Bridge, Trades Club w/ Andrew Weatherall – SOLD OUT

25 May – Leeds, Belgrave Music Hall – NEW DATE

26 May - Tameside, Atmosphere Festival 

A Certain Ratio are supporters of Artists Against Hunger and will donate £1 for each ticket sold in 2018. For further details, please go to: http://againsthunger.uk/acr

A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in 1978, the band had various members throughout their career, and a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

Hailed universally as pioneers of what became known as “punk funk” thanks to the success of ‘Shack Up’ on both sides of the Atlantic, their sound is not easily pigeon holed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post punk aesthetic, adding great clothes and the coolest haircuts.

They have gone on to influence generations of musicians - from LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Andrew Weatherall, who will appear at the band’s sold out Hebden Bridge performance in May. 

The Guardian’s Dave Simpson paid tribute to the band, once described as “James Brown on acid” in a recent Cult Heroes piece: “Once you start listening to A Certain Ratio, it’s difficult to stop”.

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