When Albert Hammond Jr. asks to record a song with your band for your forthcoming album, you say yes. According to this month’s NME, UK garage-rockers The Vaccines recently experienced this situation first-hand when The Strokes guitarist asked the quartet if they could team up for a song. For two-days, the “Post Break-Up Sex” group and Hammond Jr. collaborated at his studio in New York resulting in the new track, “Tiger Blood”.
The Vaccines may be on the rise in their own right, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t taken aback by the guitar-virtuoso’s wishes to work together. Frontman Justin Young told NME, “we’re in a place now where we’re trying to think about what we wanna do for the next record. We really like the idea of working with other creative people and obviously, being a massive fan of The Strokes, it wasn’t something we were gonna say no to”.
There’s no word on when the collaborative effort may see release, but we’ll keep you updated. In the meantime, The Vaccines will spending the coming months on the road with another collective of indie royalty, Arctic Monkeys. Check out their upcoming tour dates along with the video for “Post Break-Up Sex” below.
The Vaccines 2011 tour dates:
08/26 – Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
08/27 – Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
08/28 – Paris, FR @ Rock En Seine
09/08 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe
09/09 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue *
09/10 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge (Musicfest NW)
09/12 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
09/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Music Box *
09/14 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
09/18 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
09/21 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
09/22 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall *
09/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Popped! Music Festival
09/25 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *
09/27 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert *
09/28 – Montreal, QC @ Corona *
09/30 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall *
10/01 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/19 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
10/20 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
10/22 – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis
10/25 – Cologone, DE @ Luxor
10/28 – Nottingham, UK @ Capital FM Arena #
10/29 – London, UK @ O2 Arena #
11/01 – Cardiff, UK @ Motor Point Arena #
11/02 – Manchester, UK @ MEN Arena #
11/04 – Birmingham, UK @ LG Arena #
11/05 – Newcastle, UK @ Metro Arena #
11/06 – Aberdeen, UK @ AECC #
11/08 – Glasgow, UK @ SECC #
11/09 – Liverpool, UK @ Echo Arena #
11/17 – Manchester, UK @ Academy
11/19 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
11/20 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
11/21 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 Academy
11/23 – Sheffield, UK @ O2 Academy
11/24 – Lincoln, UK @ Engine Shed
11/25 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Academy
11/26 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
11/28 – Southampton, UK @ Guildhall
11/29 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy
11/30 – Norwich, UK @ UEA
12/02 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
12/03 – Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
12/04 – Leamington Spa, UK @ The Assembly
12/06 – Eastbourne, UK @ Winter Gardens
12/07 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy
* = w/ Tennis
# = w/ Arctic Monkeys
