The Pigeon Detectives have announced details of a new album and tour, set to take place in Spring.

The band’s third album ‘Up, Guards And At 'Em!', released April 4, will be their first since 2008’s ‘Emergency’.

To coincide with the new album the band will play a total of fourteen dates across the UK. The tour will kick off in Middlesborough on March 28 and will conclude in Leeds on April 12.

Tickets for their UK tour go on sale on Friday (February 4).

The Pigeon Detectives’ UK tour dates are:

• Middlesborough, Empire - March 28
• Glasgow, O2 ABC - 29
• Manchester, Ritz - 30
• Liverpool, Academy - 31
• Birmingham, Institute - April 2
• Oxford, Academy - 3
• Norwich, UEA - 4
• Cambridge, Junction - 5
• London, Shepherd's Bush Empire - 6
• Bournemouth, Old Fire Station - 8
• Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms - 9
• Bristol, Trinity - 10
• Coventry, Kasbah - 11
• Leeds, Metropolitcan University - 12

(by Holly Frith)