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With the height of Royal Blood’s 2017 How Did We Get So Dark? album campaign well gone we haven’t heard much about the powerhouse rock duo in recent months.

But - the multi award-winning ‘Little Monster’ hitmakers are playing Reading and Leeds this year and to warm up they’re doing a run of gigs in small venues.

Detailed in a Facebook post sent out this morning (8 July) Royal Blood will eschew the temptation of the biggest metropolis' and play: Newport, Dundee, Nottingham, and Margate in August. See the full venue and ticket details below.

The intensity of their performance in a small venue, after years of playing some of the biggest stages in the world – including a massive Pyramid Stage performance in Glastonbury in 2017 – will likely be supercharged.

Support acts for the short run of gigs include an Australian band signed to the same management as Arctic Monkeys: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets; and the hotly-tipped Liverpudlian band The Mysterines.

Tickets go on sale from 8am on Monday 8 July and will be available from Royal Blood's website.

A fraction of the profits from ticket sales will go to the charity War Child, which tirelessly works to support children helplessly caught up in conflict.

Meanwhile, Royal Blood are in the midst of creating their third album and wrote the following on social media:

"We are very much in the middle of creating something very special together in the studio that is going to be the wildest and scariest record we have ever made."

Royal Blood underplay tour dates:

August

09 – Southampton, O2 Guildhall
10 – Newport, Centre
12 – Dundee, Caird Hall
13 – Nottingham, Rock City
14 – Margate, Winter Gardens

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