19th Feb - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
20th Feb - Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
21st Feb - Metropolis - Montreal, QC
22nd Feb - Music Hall - London, ON
24th Feb - Carnegie Music Hall - Pittsburgh, PA
25th Feb - LC Pavilion - Columbus, OH
26th Feb - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI
27th Feb - Rave - Milwaukee, WI
29th Feb - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
1st Mar - Burton Cummings Theatre - Winnipeg, MB
2nd Mar - O'Briens Events Center - Saskatoon, SK
3rd Mar - Winspear Center - Edmonton AB
5th Mar - MacEwan Hall Ballroom - Calgary, AB
6th Mar - Wilma Theatre -Missoula, MT
7th Mar - Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
08th Mar - Knitting Factory - Boise, ID
10th Mar - Knitting Factory - Reno, NV
11th Mar - City National Civic of San Jose - San Jose, CA
12th Mar - The Grove - Anaheim, CA
14th Mar - Rialto Theatre - Tucson, AZ
15th Mar - City Auditorium - Colorado Springs, CO
16th Mar - Uptown Theater - Kansas City, MO
18th Mar - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
19th Mar - Aztec Music Hall - San Antonio, TX
20th Mar - New Orleans Civic Theatre - New Orleans, LA
21th Mar - Iron City Live - Birmingham, AL
23th Mar - The Ritz - Tampa, FL
This is a huge honour for us to be supporting one of the best symphonic metal bands on the planet. We're massive fans of the band are are really looking forward to playing with Leaves' Eyes!
27th May - HULL - O'Rileys
28th May - LEICESTER - The Shed
29th May - DUDLEY - Rock Zombie
30th May - LEEDS - Temple of Boom (Lost Effect will not be at this show)
31st May - SHEFFIELD - South Sea Live
Dear Fans & Friends,
fantastic news! We proudly announce the collaboration with choir ensemble London Voices for the upcoming Leaves' Eyes album! Choir master, Terry Edwards, and the superb London Voices choir have been been working on blockbuster movies e.g. "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars", "The Hobbit", "Harry Potter" or "Interstellar". Moreover, they added the perfect epic strength and spirit to our music! The recordings took place at the famous Angel Studios in London.
Stay tuned for more details of the upcoming Leaves' Eyes album!
We had such a great time when we played an one-off UK show at The Forum last year that we will come back for a short run of UK dates this autumn. We will be joined on this run by Eluveitie and Scar Symmetry. I am very pleased to tour with this strong package. I’m sure you all won’t regret coming out to one of these shows and partying with us. See you!
11-11-2015 UK-Bristol O2 Academy
12-11-2015 UK-Manchester Ritz
14-11-2015 UK-Glasgow Garage
15-11-2015 UK-London Forum
We are pleased to announce that the search for a new bass player came to an end. The new operator of the paddle in the bass As Night Falls is Pawel "Siro" Siruga. And now for a little over a month you will be able to see and hear him in action, look at the profile!
To be honest it seemed like a natural choice for the band's name. I came up with this relatively early on. The first few songs I wrote were quite Steampunk themed so the Clockwork comes from there. The Opera part is simply from the fact that it was always going to be a Symphonic Metal band but I also had the intention of including some form of theatricality to our image.You recently made your live debut at the Northern Symphony Festival, what was that like for you and do you think it was a success?
Northern Symphony was amazing. It showed the wealth and diversity of the current Symphonic Metal scene. We were all very excited about playing there, especially considering it would be our debut. It was definitely a success from our point of view and it was a great opportunity to introduce ourselves to the right audience and meet new friends at the same time.When can we expect to see an album or EP released?
There are no guarantees yet but we plan on entering the studio in the next couple of months. We are likely to release an EP first since we're so eager to share our work with everyone.What plans are in the works for the band?
More gigs, obviously. We can't reveal the details at the moment but we will be announcing more dates very soon. And also recording. At the moment we have Rowan Andrews, who created our logo and the artwork for Femetalism (support this site!) working on some concepts for sketches for us.What are the major lyrical themes and concepts in the band's music?
Whilst we try not to pigeonhole ourselves so people can interpret what we do in their own way I think it is rather obvious that we have a strong Victorian theme. We write about history and we write stories but we try to make everything relevant to the period. Everyone has their own input to the writing process but I mainly write stories. There are characters and there are plots. Like any author, every character I write about has a back story and a life of their own.Where do you see the band being in five years?
I think it's a little bit too early to know at the moment. This band is still in it's infancy and we are just trying to get a name for ourselves. I'd just like us to still be here in a year, let alone five at the moment.Given the chance, which band would you tour with?
Everyone in the band would answer this one differently. I'm not sure I could pick just one either. My biggest inspiration musically is a band called X Japan. Not many people over here know them but in Japan they are MASSIVE! I would donate limbs to support them (Not mine, obviously). On a smaller more achievable scale, there is another band from near us called Reign of Sirius who are excellent. Their music and themes are of a style that work very well with our own and we would love to do more shows with them in the future.How did the idea for A Clockwork Opera come about?
I started this originally about two years ago on my own. My intention back then was to make a Steampunk metal band. I soon came to realise that this gimmick would wear thin very quickly and would have been so niche that it would probably never catch on. That's how it came to expand to having a Victorian theme, Steampunk stories would still work whilst then having a much larger scope of themes to draw from.A Clockwork Opera online:
27th May - HULL, O'RileysThe Leeds show will not include York metallers Lost Effect.
28th May - LEICESTER, The Shed
29th May - DUDLEY, Rock Zombie
30th May - LEEDS, Temple of Boom
31st May - SHEFFIELD, South Sea Live
