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"Friendly Fires have announced that they are to play a handful of shows across the UK this May. The &amp;#039;Kiss of Life&amp;#039; band are to play the concerts in the run-up to the release of their second album Pala on May 16. The trio are to play London&amp;#039;s Heaven on May 9, Glasgow&amp;#039;s Arches on May 11 and Manchester&amp;#039;s Sound Control on May 12. The gigs will be one of the first opportunities for fans to listen to new material from the group. Frontman Ed Macfarlane recently admitted that the band&amp;#039;s new LP is more &amp;quot;poppy&amp;quot; than their previous work, likening the sound to that of &amp;quot;*NSYNC or Backstreet Boys&amp;quot;.  Listen to the first single to be taken from Pala, titled &amp;#039;Live Those Days Tonight&amp;#039;, below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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