Don Broco announce Four Year Strong support dates

We're thinking back to May time last year. As well as stressing over our exams, we were also very much enjoying Don Broco's brilliant single Beautiful Morning. Packed full of riotous guitar riffs, it was one of the most exhilarating post-hardcore moments of the year - and now the boys are back supporting Four Year Strong on a series of live dates.

Running through January, the tour comes to what's sure to be a triumphant finale at London's Koko - not one to be missed!

The full list of tour dates is as follows:

25-Jan-12           Brighton                Concorde                        
26-Jan-12           Birmingham           HMV Institute                        
27-Jan-12           Leeds                     Met University                        
28-Jan-12           Glasgow                 Garage                        
29-Jan-12           Manchester           Academy 2                        
30-Jan-12           Norwich                 Waterfront                        
31-Jan-12           Portsmouth           Wedgewood Rooms                        
1-Feb-12             London                 Koko

Don Broco - Beautiful Morning

Coming to the end of their May tour across the UK, Don Broco can look back with a sense of satisfaction - their debut album Big Fat Smile being received with rave reviews from both Kerrang and Rock Sound.

And when it comes to positive feelings, their single Beautiful Morning is right up their with the best of them, channelling impassioned choruses of 'Up, Up Away!' delivered with particular poignancy by lead singer Rob Damiani.

For many post-hardcore bands, it's so easy for them to become lost in attempts to demonstrate what they can do with their guitars, how 'big' they can make their sound, this constant drive to prove their musicianship - so much so that any essence of an actual, solid song seems to become secondary.

It's extremely refreshing then to see Don Broco actually delivering a track which stands up on its roundedness - it has proper verses, a good chorus, and guitar hooks that are precise rather than inelegant bludgeons to the senses. Beautiful indeed...