Long Distance Runner Announce 'Shadow' Album Release Tour

Based in Tāmaki Makaurau and Ōtepoti, sonic bruisers Long Distance Runner's third studio album Shadow is out this month via Sunreturn, launching with a six date tour taking them all across Aotearoa in July and September. The uncompromisingly cacophonous four-piece of Simon Oswald, Jono Glenday, Sam Cussen and Sam Shepherd have gifted fans new single 'On/Off', a charred tumbleweed of distortion drenched guitar, muscular bass, hammering percussion and unholy yowls that gradually escalates in tension towards a scorched earth finale...

"Lyrically On/Off is about the expression of negative emotions and the negative aspect of its repression... Often when discussing heavy music people tend to say things like "oh I don't like it, 'it makes me angry' etc. But for me it's a cathartic expression of these negative emotions. Through music I can turn them on or off. I can express them, I can exhaust them and I can take away their power." - Simon Oslward

Long Distance Runner - Shadow Album Release Tour

Friday 15th July - last place, Hamilton
Saturday 16th July - Whammy Bar, Auckland
Friday 29th July - Hataitai Bowling Club, Wellington
Saturday 30th July - The Stomach, Palmerston North
Friday 23rd September - The Crown Hotel, Dunedin
Saturday 24th September — venue to be announced, Christchurch

Tickets available HERE via UTR

'Shadow' is out on Friday 15th July via Sunreturn.

Press release:

Simon Oswald, Jono Glenday, Sam Cussen and Sam Shepherd make up Long Distance Runner, an aggressive rock group based in Tāmaki Makaurau, and Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Their music takes influence from 90s shoegaze and East Coast screamo, delivering a dissonant fury unrivalled by most.

To celebrate the release of Shadow, Long Distance Runner have announced they will tour throughout Aotearoa in 2022.