They landed on MSN's Ones To Watch for 2012 list last month, have just got off tour with Kasabian, Evanescence and Death From Above 1979, have completed work on their debut album produced by the legendary Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Temper Trap) have just finished a nationwide tour with Panic! At The Disco, followed by an appearance at the HMV Next Big Thing showcase, and now HEADLINE KOKO on March 9th before going out on tour with Twin Atlantic across Britain. 

They landed on MSN's Ones To Watch for 2012 list last month, have just got off tour with Kasabian, Evanescence and Death From Above 1979, have completed work on their debut album produced by the legendary Simon ‘Barny’ Barnicott (Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Temper Trap) have just finished a nationwide tour with Panic! At The Disco, followed by an appearance at the HMV Next Big Thing showcase, and now HEADLINE KOKO on March 9th before going out on tour with Twin Atlantic across Britain. 

They formed in 2009 in Melbourne, the epicentre of the Australian music scene and a place the band describe as “an outburst of happiness that no one wants to leave!” And why ME? “Because it’s faintly absurd and un-googlable” they suggest and it’s true that there’s something intangible about both the name and the band. “We use drum troupes and orchestras, we love classical music and theatre and showmanship and we like to go places no one has been to before”,explains lead singer Luke. 

Two of ME - or should that be us? - met at a spiritualist nudist festival so it’s hardly surprising that the debut single by the band should be called 'Naked'. 'Naked' is mini rock opera on the grandest of scales and a song that asks whether life, the universe and everything must always be like this. The band cite The Beatles, The Mars Volta and Led Zeppelin as influences but if we threw Danny Elfman, Philip Glass, Rachmaninof and Queen in there you’d start to get scared – so I won’t. Instead we’ll just suggest that ME are one of the most exciting new rock bands to appear this side of the millennium. 

09 MARC 2012 - ME live at Club NME, Koko Headline

09 APRIL 2012 - DUBLIN: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The O2 Dublin

10 APRIL 2012 - CORK: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, Cyprus Avenue

11 APRIL 2012 - DERRY: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The Nerve Centre, Derry

12 APRIL 2012 - BELFAST: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, Mandella Hall

14 APRIL 2012 - INVERNESS: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, Ironworks Venue

15 APRIL 2012 - DUNFERMLINE: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The Alhambra Theatre

16 APRIL 2012 - MANCHESTER: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The Ritz

17 APRIL 2012 - LONDON: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, KOKO London

19 APRIL 2012 - CARDIFF: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, Solus

20 APRIL 2012 - WOLVERHAMPTON: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, Wulfrun Hall

21 APRIL 2012 - NORWICH: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The Waterfront Norwich

22 APRIL 2012 - PORTSMOUTH: ME Supporting Twin Atlantic, The Wedgewood Rooms