When: 7.30pm on Thursday 28 June 2012
Where: Leaf, 65-67 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4EZ

When: 7.30pm on Friday 29 June 2012
Where: The Brudenell Social Club, 33 Queen’s Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 1NY

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 30 June 2012
Where: Manchester Academy 3, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR

We’re excited to be presenting three shows for Jesca Hoop, to mark the release of her new album!

Jesca Hoop returns with her third album The House That Jack Built on her own label on 25 June. The House That Jack Built deftly showcases its author’s unflinching tendency to pull focus from widescreen to close-up. Part siren song, part grim warning, it achieves a perspective-warping balance between the haunting intimacy of Hoop’s delivery and an unconfined air of horizon-scanning grandeur from the outset. It arrives with more than a few splashes on its hands. Life and death; light and dark; sex and war; head and heart: The House That Jack Built offers up as much in celebration of the macabre as it does in mistrust of the familiar, with a twist of humour.

The follow up to 2009’s critically acclaimed Hunting My Dress, the new recording is a co-production between Jesca Hoop and three other producers and this visceral album will open a whole new world of listeners to Jesca’s music. Returning to Tony Berg’s Zeitgeist Studio in Los Angeles, where she recorded Hunting My Dress, Jesca enlisted old friends Shawn Everett, Blake Mills and Tony Berg himself as her co-producers.

Since self-releasing Hunting My Dress, Jesca Hoop has continued her knack for collecting fans in high places. Having been endorsed by Elbow’s Guy Garvey, she’s been invited to present his 6music show in March, she’s joined Eels on their US and European tour, and was invited by Peter Gabriel to sing backing vocals for his David Letterman and Jools Holland TV performances, and support and duet with him on his South American tour last year. With the release of The House That Jack Built, Jesca is set to pick up a host of new fans, high profile or otherwise.

‘Hunting My Dress confirms her as one of alternative folk-pop’s most arresting recent arrivals, singing like an outcast angel and writing like a restless explorer’ – The Sunday Times

‘A sensual, eccentric and often frankly odd-sounding record, Hunting My Dress exudes oodles of charisma and originality, thanks mostly to Hoop’s delightfully freaky take on traditional folk convention’ – BBC Music

‘Jesca Hoop’s music is like a four sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night’ –  Tom Waits

LIVERPOOL: Support comes from Natalie McCool and Jay Lewis.

Tickets are available from WeGotTickets.com, Ticketweb.co.uk, Seetickets.com, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0161 832 1111.

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LEEDS: Support comes from Dancing Years, formerly Joseph & David. The expansive Leeds and Cardiff-based band will appeal to fans of James Vincent McMorrow, Dry The River and Beirut.

Tickets are available from Crash Records, Jumbo Records, Seetickets.com, WeGotTickets.com, Ticketweb.co.uk, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0161 832 1111.

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MANCHESTER: Support comes from The Projectionists, featuring singer Becki Stephens, backing singer with Jesca and formerly a member of the Pipettes.

Tickets are available from Manchester University Students Union, Common (both no booking fee), Piccadilly Records, Vinyl Exchange, Seetickets.com, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0161 832 1111.

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