Broken Chanter announces UK-wide tour, prepares to launch new album
The onetime Kid Canaveral band member will launch his fourth album under the Broken Chanter moniker this April
Broken Chanter, the long-running project fronted by songwriter David MacGregor, has been laying the groundwork for upcoming fourth LP This Could Be Us, You, Or Anybody Else, set for release on Friday 10 April via Chemikal Underground.
After launching a teaser single (more on that below), The SAY Award-nominated act has announced a full-scale tour across the UK, which includes a number of in-store shows at Assai Records, Low Port, Some Great Reward, Vox Box and Mo Fidelity (find full dates of the in-store shows at the bottom of the article). A listening party will also take place at Glasgow’s The Doublet on Thursday 2 April.
The tour itself will begin at Dundee’s Beat Generator on Friday 24 April, before heading to Aberdeen’s Tunnels on Thursday 30 April, London’s Waiting Room on Wednesday 13 May, North Shields’ Three Tanners Bank on Thursday 14 May, Glasgow’s Rum Shack on Friday 15 May, and Edinburgh’s Leith FAB Cricket Club on Saturday 16 May. All tickets are on sale now.
Formerly of indie-rock group Kid Canaveral, MacGregor’s stint as Broken Chanter has led to a number of critically acclaimed albums which have flirted with post-punk and indie-pop. His work has skewed increasingly political in recent years, with This Could Be… formed around the ‘alienation of the modern socio-political landscape’ for ‘agitprop ecstasy’. New single ‘Shake It To Bits’ proves MacGregor’s got the wit to make alienation thoroughly entertaining, with a ferocious skewering of toxic masculinity. He said of the single: ’It's a punch back against those successfully monetising the dehumanisation of women minorities, and The Other, whilst exploiting male insecurity heightened and further toxified by constant connection to platforms bombarding them with propaganda, “Shake It To Bits” highlights the absurdity of the posturing and vacuity of the rhetoric pushed by these modern day snake oil salesmen, by stepping into the shoes of, and sending up, one of them.'
Listen to the song below.
We covered ‘Shake It To Bits’ in our latest edition of Singles In Your Area, writing, ‘It’s as witty and punchy as he’s ever been.’ Read the full article here.
This Could Be Us, You, Or Anybody Else track list:
1 ‘This Future Is Bright And I Don’t Want It’
2 ‘Shake It To Bits’
3 ‘Piazzale Loreto’
4 ‘A Year Without A Summer’
5 ‘Ghosts Of The Gaps’
6 ‘To The Victims They Call Citizens’
7 ‘Times New Bildungsroman’
8 ‘Atrocity/Adverts/Idiocy (wsayo)’
9 ‘CENTRS’
Broken Chanter’s 2026 UK tour dates:
Low Port, Linlithgow, Thursday 9 April (In-store show)
Some Great Reward, Glasgow, Friday 10 April (In-store show)
Mo Fidelity, Montrose, Saturday 11 April (In-store show)
Assai Records, Aberdeen, Sunday 12 April (In-store show)
Assai Records, Dundee, Sunday 12 April (In-store show)
Vox Box Records, Edinburgh, Saturday 18 April (Out-store show at St Vincent’s Chapel)
Beat Generator, Dundee, Friday 24 April
The Tunnels, Aberdeen, Thursday 30 April
The Waiting Room, London, Wednesday 13 May
Three Tanners Bank, North Shields, Thursday 14 May
The Rum Shack, Glasgow, Friday 15 May
Leith FAB Cricket Club, Edinburgh, Saturday 16 May
Tickets for Broken Chanter’s UK tour dates are on sale now; picture: Stephanie Gibson.
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