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Ice cream season is coming round again, and Bandit are celebrating with an indie-tastic new bop named after the frozen snack. The Liverpool band have announced a run of dates for the winter too...

We've made the connection between Bandit and Arctic Monkeys before, and again the influence of the Sheffield outfit is evident on 'Ice Cream'. Lyrics are both romantically cutesy and cuttingly smart. "I want to be by the seaside with you", they sing, "I'd even take Blackpool."

The band's Nat Waters said of the track: "It's a tune written about young love. Getting caught in the rain and instead of running for shelter, embracing it. Things aren't perfect because everything's not always Disney. Falling in love with a girl as we sat laughing on plastic garden chairs is way more rock n roll than that anyway."

See Bandit live:

NOVEMBER

11 - Leeds, Lending Room

DECEMBER

03 - London, The Grace
11 - Liverpool, The Jac Basement

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