Frenetic noughties tastemakers Enter Shikari will showcase their new direction as they return to their roots at Venue Cymru.


Hot off the heels of winning best album at the Kerrang! Awards for their top-five album, The Spark, the political firebrands are heading to Llandudno as part of their Stop The Clocks tour – their biggest yet – of more intimate venues next year.


Lead vocalist Rou Reynolds says: “Our most recent UK tours have been of the eight or nine shows in arenas and 'big sheds' variety, so we consciously wanted to switch it up a bit going into 2019.


“Enter Shikari have always kept dipping back into more intimate venues over the years, no matter how big our headline shows have become. That’s where we cut our teeth.


“The heat, sweat and visceral human connection of smaller gigs is every bit the equal of the impressive scale and expensive production of arena shows. 
"We’ve never seen the latter as an evolution away from the former. They exist on opposite sides of the same coin for us.”


Ascending to the status of an arena rock band in recent years, Enter Shikari have nevertheless clung to their punk ethos.


The-four piece from St Albans have consistently evolved their pioneering sound, a fusion of post hardcore and metal core, with techno, trance and electronic – known as electronic core – to remain an essential and outspoken voice in the ever-changing political landscape.


Reynolds adds: “It’s no secret that austerity and the looming potential disaster of Brexit have seen people having to be a lot more careful with how they spend their money.


"With things being what they are right now, it doesn’t seem fair for only those who can afford the travel to a major city to be able to see a show.”


To join the band of the people for an intimate and intense evening of cutting-edge sounds, head to Venue Cymru on Tuesday, January 15 at 8pm.


Tickets are £27, available from venuecymru.co.uk or by calling 01492 872000.