Maximo Park 20th Anniversary Shows performing songs from 'A Certain Trigger' & their greatest hits

This year, Maxïmo Park’s beloved debut album A Certain Trigger turns 20 years old. The band will be celebrating the anniversary by performing songs from A Certain Trigger and their greatest hits across the UK & Europe. The tour sees them return to London’s O2 Academy Brixton – the site of many a sold-out back to back show through the A Certain Trigger era culminating in a hometown show at Newcastle’s legendary O2 City Hall.

Not only that, the band will be reissuing the album on October 31st on a variety of different formats including a single LP, double gatefold LP, and 3xLP collection. Also included will be Missing Songs featuring the likes of ‚A19‘, ‚Isolation‘, and ‚My Life in Reverse‘, as well as a Rarities & B-Sides CD including ‚Wasteland‘, ‚⁠Limassol (First Avenue demo)‘, ‚⁠The Coast Is Always Changing (Dilston Road demo)‘, and ⁠’⁠Kiss You Better (BBC Radio 2 Janice Long session)‘ to name a few.

The Mercury Prize-nominated record, produced by Paul Epworth and released on Warp, arrived with a trio of iconic singles in ‚Apply Some Pressure‘, ‚Graffiti‘, and ‚Going Missing‘, each of which still define the indie disco experience for many to this day. Released at the time into a landscape soon to become dominated by ten-a-penny guitar bands, with A Certain Trigger Maxïmo Park were the bookish, livewire outsiders, bursting with punk power, pop sensibility and literary smarts. Even their signing to Warp records – a label predominantly known for its experimental and electronic roster at the time – suggested a band with its eyes set beyond the horizon.

Almost immediately, and certainly in the time since its release, A Certain Trigger has installed itself as a scene staple, and a curiosity of the 00s that packs as much power today as it did 20 years ago.