IST IST release new single "Repercussions" on 14 June

Ist Ist announce the release of Repercussions, the third offering from their forthcoming album “Light A Bigger Fire”’ and details of an extensive UK and European Tour. Wasting no time following the culmination of their recent Spring tour and announcement of fourth record “Light A Bigger Fire” at the end of April, Ist Ist have announced a 27-date UK and European tour for Autumn 2024. The tour includes statement shows at New Century in Manchester and the iconic Paradiso in Amsterdam. The band also venture into new territory, playing for the first time in Switzerland, Austria, Czechia, Hungary and Poland.

A quintessential Ist Ist track Repercussions is a synth-laden tour de force of brooding bass and vocal hooks, reaching an apex with a striking crescendo of intertwining guitars and dramatic drum breaks. Frontman Adam Houghton is clear on what to expect from the album and from Ist Ist in the remainder of 2024 and beyond:

“A song about damaging thoughts and feelings lingering in your mind. Whether it’s for better or worse you know things are going to irreversibly change when you spill them to somebody. This song is about getting lost in the notion of wondering what would happen if you could truly express yourself with no consequences.”

The new album “Light a Bigger Fire” is out on 20 September 2024. You can pre-order it HERE.

Taking a typically bold step, the band have set up their own rehearsal studios, KVR Studios, on the outskirts of Manchester to enable them to focus fully on the band and have enlisted the production skills of Joe Cross, whose impressive CV features the likes of Courteeners, Hurts and Louis Tomlinson.

Established in late 2014, Ist Ist have forged a formidable reputation on word of mouth excitement at their uncompromisingly intense live shows, a fierce Mancunian DIY work ethic and an ever-growing back catalogue of successful studio and live releases, all self-released through their own Kind Violence Records imprint.

Their recent European and UK tours in March and April found them previewing tracks from “Light A Bigger Fire” as well as their now extensive catalogue, and saw them play to over 8,000 people in nine countries. Ist Ist’s reach has already spread beyond the shores of the UK selling out prestigious venues in the Netherlands and Germany, bucking the trend of UK acts struggling in Europe post-Brexit. With previous championing from BBC 6Music, Radio X, XS Manchester, KINK, The Times and more, brimming with confidence and their strongest body of work to date in their pocket, IST IST are set to light a bigger fire everywhere they go in 2024.

IST IST LIVE SHOWS

AUGUST 2024

3 - Derbyshire - Y Not Festival

OCTOBER 2024

3 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club

4 - Glasgow - Slay

5 - Newcastle - Think Tank

9 - Wolverhampton - Newhampton Arts Centre

10 - Bristol - Exchange

11 - Brighton - Komedia

12 - Sheffield - Yellow Arch

16 - Cambridge - Mash