Hard partying hair rock enthusiasts Monster Truck have announced an extensive tour of the UK this autumn. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 June. Find a detailed list of the band’s tour dates at the bottom of this article. 

Using enough capital letters and exclamation marks to make our editor’s head explode, the band’s bassist and lead singer Jon Harvey says, 'HOLY SHIT IS IT EVER GREAT TO ANNOUNCE A TOUR IN THE UK! 

‘Beyond excited to rip around with our incredible support Those Damn Crows and party hard in all these amazing cities. Expect a dirty, intense, rock n roll fury machine when this mammoth tour rolls into your town. BE THERE OR REGRET IT!’

The news comes as the boisterous Canadian act prepare to perform at Download Festival this Saturday on the Apex Stage between 1.35pm and 2.25pm, and as they put the finishing touches on their as-yet untitled fourth album, their first with major label BMG. 

Accompanying the tour announcement is new single ‘Golden Woman’, a blisteringly fast hard rocker that seems purpose-built for a beer-swilling, head-banging good time.

Harvey says of the song, ‘The idea for ‘Golden Woman’ came one afternoon as I was fiddling around on a kid's guitar my father had bought my son. He got it at some garage sale and thought it perfect for little hands. 

‘I ended up picking it up, putting the strap over my head, and walking around with it all afternoon playing the main riff, and slowly crafting an arrangement. Jer and I then fine-tuned the song, and voila! Inspiration comes from anywhere and everywhere.’

‘The lyrics were born of my own personal experience with my partner, Simara. She saved me during a very rough time, and I am forever grateful for her, and the mystical revelations that only love can bring. Her hair colour is naturally blonde, so the title of the song is, like all Monster Truck songs, very literal.’

Listen to ‘Golden Woman’ below. 

Monster Truck’s 2022 UK tour dates: 
Thursday 29 September – Booking Hall, Dover
Friday 30 September – KKs Steel Mill, Wolverhampton
Sunday 2 October – O2 Academy Oxford
Wednesday 5 October – O2 Ritz, Manchester
Thursday 6 October – Garage, Glasgow
Friday 7 October – Riverside, Newcastle
Monday 10 October – Cambridge Junction
Tuesday 11 October – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Wednesday 12 October – Concorde 2, Brighton
Saturday 15 October – University Great Hall, Cardiff
Sunday 16 October – Corporation, Sheffield
Monday 17 October – Rock City, Nottingham

Tickets for Monster Truck’s UK tour go on sale at 10am on Friday 10 June.