James Bourne said in an interview, "Once you get halfway through the album, you're officially half way there". Ticket’s for the extra dates will go on pre-sale on Wednesday 6 th February at 9am and on general sale on Friday 8 th February at 10am. They know their eggs so well when it comes to delivering great pop hooks and lyrics that are witty, barmy, and which occasionally touch a chord. Now a year longer than their original run into their career since their 2015 reunion with the ‘Pigs Can Fly’ tour, ‘Half Way There’ is their fourth studio album (so titled as it’s exactly half way to the ‘seventh album’ referred to in their hit single ‘Year 3000’), and one to be especially proud of. Again I find it hard to tell if I’m enjoying it, i’m sneering at it a lot but also smiling so I guess I’m enjoying myself.

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Nineties opens the album and it’s essentially a modernised version of the music the band was making the first-time round.

They have written more material than ever before, with much of it penned in Bourne’s North London apartment, which also happens to be where they spent a lot of time together when they first formed the band in 2000. While Night Driver stood as an entity resembling a fun-filled holiday, Half Way There as a record is a rapturous homecoming and I will happily go on record to say; Half Way There is the best Pop Punk album of the past five years!Hell, Reunion and Shipwrecked In Atlantis might as well be respective sequels to What I Go To School For and Air Hostess with the amount the draw on similar themes and settings, but while not everything is quite that on-the-nose, this album largely feels like the case of a band stunting their own growth and evolution in an effort of Simple Plan proportions to shamelessly and transparently ape their heyday. It’s packed with catchy melodies, the three members shine on vocals and the lyrics are both personal and clever. I cannot wait for fans to hear this record and to be able to talk to them on social media about it,” says Willis.