Canada’s favourite sons The Barenaked Ladies are set to play their first shows on these shores in over three years with a major headline tour commencing in April.

Playing in support of their forthcoming Reprise album ‘Everything To Everyone’ (out April 19^th), The Barenaked Ladies will bring their wry sense of humour and sharp melodic edge to the following venues:

Nowt2Do.Com's favourite band will be touring the UK, and you must see them. There live performances are amazing, and there new album Everything To Everyone is this summers must have. Put it in the car, and drive in the sunshine smiling and singing. The Barenaked Ladies will put a smile on your face like no other band will.

April 

27^th – Bristol Colston Hall
28^th – Southampton Guildhall
29^th – London, Carling Hammersmith Apollo 

May

1^st – Glasgow Carling Academy
2^nd – Aberdeen Music Hall
4^th – Dublin Olympia
5^th – Manchester Carling Apollo
6^th – Birmingham Carling Academy

Tickets are on-sale now at a price of £18, except for London (£22.50/£20) and Dublin (Є30)

Produced by Ron Aniello and primarily written by vocalist/guitarist front duo Steven Page and Ed Robertson, ‘Everything To Everyone’ is the Lad(ie)s most assured album to date. The lead single ‘Celebrity’, is an obvious highlight, as instantly memorably as their biggest hits such as ‘One Week’ and ‘It’s All Been Done’. Elsewhere the band shine on the eccentric pop of ‘Testing 1,2,3’, take a more mature approach on ‘War On Drugs’ and show a sensitive side on the closing ballad ‘Have You Seen My Love?’

With worldwide sales in excess of 10-million, The Barenaked Ladies are best known for their major international hit ‘One Week’ which crashed into the UK Top 5 and was one of the biggest singles of 1999. The band have previously headlined Wembley Arena and The Royal Albert Hall as well as playing festivals such as Glastonbury, the V Festival and T In The Park.

‘Everything To Everyone’ released April 19th

Barenaked Ladies have looked into the future and they like what they see. They envision a day when every known corporation will have merged into one monolithic force. That force will be Barenaked Ladies, and they will indeed be everything to everyone.  Until that day, we can all just dream.

Back with their first studio album since 2000’s acclaimed Maroon, Barenaked Ladies bring us Everything To Everyone; a potent blend of their trademark wit, humour and poignancy in a genre-hopping adventure that yields some of the best songs of their fifteen-year career, from the addictive “Another Postcard” to the heartbreaking “War On Drugs” and the bittersweet lead single, “Celebrity”.

Founded in 1988 by singer-guitarists Steven Page and Ed Robertson, Toronto’s Barenaked Ladies have sold over ten million records worldwide on the heels of hits like “One Week,” “Pinch Me” and “Brian Wilson.” Along the way, they have developed a dedicated following, and a reputation as one of North America’s best-loved live acts.

Exhausted after nearly four years of non-stop touring, the band finally took an eight-month hiatus, the first since recording their breakthrough hit “One Week” in 1998. “We’ve said for years that we’ve needed more time for writing,” explains Ed Robertson. “So we didn’t have a hard deadline this time. It was about giving ourselves, and our audience, a break.” The respite bore dazzling dividends when the group reconvened. “We made the decision to open up the songwriting process,” continues Steven Page. “Up to then it had primarily been Ed and I. For the first time all of us wrote together, separately and in various combinations and then work-shopped the results. We wanted more flexibility, more opportunity to exchange ideas and take the songs to another place than where we would have taken them on our own, which meant putting the music through a lot more filters.”

“It was a complicated process,” admits multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn. “We had to learn all over again to trust that we were after the same thing - the best possible results - so we had occasional summits where we would tell each other what we each needed to be happy.

Produced by Ron Aniello, who helmed the chart-topping debut by Lifehouse, as well as the new album by Barenaked Ladies’ friends and label-mates Guster. “He’s a musician,” says drummer Tyler Stewart. “That made all the difference. We gave him the demos and he came back a few days later with very specific ideas for each one. He kept making great suggestions right up to the last minute. It was inspiring to work with someone so passionate about what we were doing.”

 “I know it’s a cliché,” acknowledged Page, “but the whole process really is like childbirth. It’s emotionally taxing, and completely exhausting and when it’s over, you want to do the whole thing again.”

“That” adds Robertson, “and the fact that we were nine centimeters dilated the whole time.”

As work on the album proceeded, the group discovered they had tapped into a rich vein of inspiration. “We wrote more than we ever did,” enthuses Robertson. “We actually ended up with thirty songs to chose from.” Perhaps inevitably, the group also grappled with questions of creative and career directions, especially in light of the breakthrough success of their two previous albums and the accompanying phenomenon of the smash, “One Week.”

It was a hard won perspective that has manifested itself in the music, from the standout “Celebrity” to the album’s multi-layered moniker. “The fact is,” asserts bassist Jim Creeggan, “in this business there’s a temptation to try to be everything to everyone, but to make a good album we have to write about things we really care about.

Underlying the huge variety of styles on the album (from the bluegrass harmonies of “For You” to the Euro-styled disco of “Shopping” and the three-chord rock of “Maybe Katie”) is the Barenaked Ladies’ trademark, a seemingly sweet confection surrounding a tart center. Each song is as full of questions and self-doubt as it is answers and bons mots. With connecting themes of alienation and disenchantment, Everything To Everyone searches to find individuality and heart and soul in a time when sameness rules, and ultimately finds itself as Barenaked Ladies’ most focused and arresting album to date.  Everything To Everyone is what happens when a band pleases its audience by pleasing themselves.

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