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Some bands moan about time on the road, but as they while away the hours on the tour bus-- priming for their nightly onstage herky-jerk-- the fellas of Maxïmo Park must be diggin' their extended vacay. Their already substantial tour just engorged itself further with a string of early October dates in their native England, bringing the grand total of times a person with no credit limit and a penchant for getting busy could conceivably catch Maxïmo in action to, like, a billion.

In other Maxïmo news, they'll issue a single for Our Earthly Pleasures track "Books From Boxes" June 11 in their homeland on Warp. "Books" comes on white or blue 7", CD, or download, and spread over its many incarnations are a few new songs and a take on the Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge program. Full tracklists for all five formats of the "Books" single and a truly epic tour schedule after the jump.

"Books From Boxes":

CD:
01 Books From Boxes (radio edit)
02 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (from Jo Whiley's Live Lounge)
03 The Unshockable (demo)

7" (White Vinyl):
A: Books From Boxes
B: Obstinate Ideas

7" (Blue Vinyl):
A: Books From Boxes (demo)
B: Don McPhee

Digital Exclusive 1 (record store bundle only):
01 Books From Boxes (acoustic version)

Digital Exclusive 2 (record store bundle only):
02 Books From Boxes (live in Amsterdam)

Maxïmo dates:

05-25 Hannover, Germany - Capitol
05-26 Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
05-27 Limburg, Germany - Pinkpop Festiavl
05-28 Newcastle, England - Evolution Festival
05-30 Toulouse, France - Bikini
06-01 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival
06-02 Nurnberg, Germany - Rock Im Park
06-03 Adenau, Germany - Rock Am Ring
06-05 Toucoing, France - Le Grand Mix
06-06 Nantes, France - Olympic
06-07 Bordeaux, France - BT 59
06-08 Paris, France - Le Bataclan
06-16 Marburg, Germany - MTV Campus Invasion
06-29 St. Gallen, Switzerland - Open Air Festival
06-30 Belfort, France - Belfort Festival
07-01 Rotselaar, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07-04 Lisbon, Portugal - Superbock Super Rock
07-06 Evreux, France - Evreux Festival
07-07 Dublin, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
07-08 Kinross, Scotland - T in the Park
07-11 Boston, MA - Great Scott
07-12 New York, NY - Webster Hall
07-13 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe
07-14 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
07-16 Chicago, IL - Double Door
07-17 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theatre
07-19 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
07-20 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound
07-22 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
07-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
07-24 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
07-26 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
07-27 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
07-28 San Diego, CA - Casbah
08-11 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic Festival
08-12 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic Festival
08-14 Brisbane, Australia - The Zoo
08-15 Sydney, Australia - Metro
08-17 Melbourne, Australia - Prince of Wales
08-18 Adelaide, Australia - Fowlers
08-19 Perth, Australia - Capitol
08-24 Reading, England - Reading Festival
08-25 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
09-02 Bologna, Italy - Idays Festival
10-02 Glasgow, Scotland - Barrowlands *$
10-03 Dundee, Scotland - Caird Hall *$
10-05 Doncaster, England - Dome *$
10-06 Manchester, England - Apollo *$
10-07 Cambridge, England - Corn Exchange ^$
10-08 Portsmouth, England - Guildhall ^$
10-10 Wolverhampton, England - Civic Hall ^$
10-11 London, England - Brixton Academy ^$
10-12 London, England - Brixton Academy $
10-16 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
10-17 Hamburg, Germany - GF 36
10-19 Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
10-21 Dresden, Germany - Schlachthof
10-22 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
10-23 Stuttgart, Germany - Longhorn
10-24 Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
10-26 Vienna, Austria - Gasometer
10-27 Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-son
12-15 Newcastle, England - Metro Radio Arena $

* with Blood Red Shoes
$ with Good Shoes
^ with Theoretical Girl