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Peter Bjorn and John tour
Panic by daniel s July 11th, 2006

John McEnroe...Bjorn Borg...anyone know an 80s tennis player called Peter?

Back to the point, current botherers of MTV2's 120 Minutes Peter Bjorn and John are making their way to Britain for a few shows in the coming weeks. Their new album Writer's Block (due August 14th through Wichita) is a rare thing of beauty, the junction where Bjork, Animal Collective and AC Newman collide in a glorious mangle of shimmering walls of noise and earth-shattering vocals.

July
12 London The Legion
13 London The Barfly
14 Southwold Latitude Festival

August
5 London The Spitz
6 Leeds The Faversham
7 Birmingham Bar Academy
8 Manchester Roadhouse
9 Glasgow Nice 'N' Sleazy's
10 Galway Roisin Dubh
11 Cork Cyprus Avenue
12 Dublin Crawdaddy

Single 'Young Folks' is released on the 31st July, the album Writer's Block is out in August



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