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The Wildhearts Announce New Mini Album ‘Diagnosis’ And Tour To Coincide

Written by Johnson Stephen on August 13, 2019

The Wildhearts are proud to announce the release of the ‘Diagnosis’ mini album on October 4^{th 2019} through Graphite Records. This six track mini album is released as a limited edition special white vinyl with pale blue powder splatter 10’’ (to look like a pill) and as a regular black vinyl 10” and CD. All 3 physical formats will also include an exclusive bespoke inner gatefold comic strip illustrated by the award winning Hunt Emerson, who last worked with the band on the ‘Earth Vs The Wildhearts’ cover and their classic logo.

The ‘Diagnosis’ mini album follows the success of ‘Renaissance Men’, their first full-length studio album in 10 years, which gave the band’s classic line up of Ginger, CJ, Ritchie and Danny, their highest chart entry since 1994’s ‘P.H.U.Q.’, when it debuted at number 11.

To coincide with the ‘Diagnosis’ announcement The Wildhearts have unveiled a new video for ‘Renaissance Men’ : https://youtu.be/9nW8VqQobd0

Here’s What The Band Has To Say Regarding The Mini Album

C.J. Wildheart

“Well, we dropped our first new album in 10 years back in May and blow me down if we didn’t drop a humdinger of an album full of monster riffs and razor sweet melodies. Well, we’ve not only gone back in to the studio to record new songs that will be released as the ‘Diagnosis’ mini album in October, we’re hitting the road too. We have some great supports confirmed already, The Professionals and Janus Stark and I know there are some other amazing bands to be added to the rest of the tour.

You’re going to love the new mini album and the surprises we have on there and the tour is going to be one you should not miss. You can’t keep a good band down.”.

Ginger Wildheart

”The lead track ‘Diagnosis’ is about “mental health institutions and the medical health profession in this country, and about how it’s letting people down. How the system is broken, and how the suicide rate is not getting any less.

Depression and mental illness isn’t an issue that attacks any one type of person. Whether you’re homeless or if you’re rich, this illness is taking people out on a regular basis. The government has pulled most of the funding into mental health research, and as a result people are still ignorant about it.

Education is everything. And the more people talk about depression, the more need there’ll be for education, and the more people will want educating about an issue that doesn’t just affect the people suffering from it, but it affects everyone around them.

And when someone is in a desperate position and their hope is taken away, then they’re at the mercy of an illness that wants them dead. There’s nothing more important in the world than education on mental health issues.”

‘Diagnosis’ Track Listing

Diagnosis.
God Damn.
A Song About Drinking.
The First Time.
That’s My Girl.
LOCAC.

Format

Cat number: GRAPHFAR35CD

Barcode: 5053760053057

10” vinyl

Cat number: GRAPHFAR35LP

Barcode: 5053760053064

10’’ ltd edition coloured vinyl

Cat number: GRAPHFAR35LPC

Barcode: 5053760053071

Digital

Cat number: GRAPHFAR35D

Barcode: 5053760053088To pre-order the ‘Diagnosis’ mini album go to: https://ffm.to/wildhearts-diagnosis

Tour Dates

To coincide with the release of ‘Diagnosis’, The Wildhearts’ play a 10 date UK tour. This tour will start in Brighton at the Concorde 2 on Saturday 5^th October and concludes at Booking Hall in Dover on Tuesday 22^nd October 2019.

“Can’t wait to get back out on tour. I’m one of those people that could live in a tour bus” – Ginger Wildheart

The Wildhearts Renaissance Men tour part 2

with special guests The Professionals and Janus Stark on the shows marked *

October

Sat 5^thBrighton Concorde 2 *

Sun 6^thReading Sub 89 *

Mon 7^thChester Live Rooms *

Tue 8^thHull Welly *

Thur 10^thHolmfirth Picturedrome

Tue 15^thCambridge Junction

Wed 16^thBath Komedia

Thur 17^thSouthampton Engine Room

Mon 21^st Wolverhampton KK’s Steel Mill

Tue 22^ndDover Booking Hall

November

Fri 29^thBuckley Tivoli

European Shows

October

Fri 11^th Helsinki Virgin Oil and Co. Finland

Sat 12^th Stockholm Fryhuset Sweden

Sun 13^thOslo Pa Bryn Norway Sold Out

Thu 24^th Amsterdam Q Factory Netherlands

Fri 25^th Essen Turock Germany

Sat 26^th Paris Backstage France

Sun 27^th Ooestende Manuscript Belgium

November

Sat 30^th Madrid Sala Spain

Tickets and ticket bundles with new album pre-orders are available at: https://www.omerch.eu/shop/thewildhearts

Links

http://www.thewildhearts.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheWildhearts

https://twitter.com/thewildhearts

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The Wildhearts Announce New Mini Album ‘Diagnosis’ And Tour To Coincide

Written by Johnson Stephen on August 13, 2019