Maxïmo Park

DIY’s 2024 Reading List

As chosen by a bunch of bookworm DIY regulars, including The Last Dinner Party, Bob Vylan, Big Joanie and more.

6th January 2024, 10:00am

Mad Cool Festival share huge updated line-up

Including Maximo Park, Belgian rockers dEUS, and a new headliner.

28th June 2023, 10:37am

Maxïmo Park: The Natural World

With their seventh album 'Nature Always Wins', the Newcastle band explore the debate of nature versus nurture in a whole new way.

4th July 2021, 12:00am

Maxïmo Park release ‘By The Riverside’ live EP

Watch the live performance of 'Versions Of You' now.

1st July 2021, 12:00am

Maxïmo Park - Nature Always Wins

3-5 Stars

There’s no upturning of the band’s musical blueprint, but their social conscience has earned them a third act.

25th February 2021, 7:55am

Maximo Park release new single ‘All Of Me’

Their new album arrives next month!

14th January 2021, 12:00am

Maximo Park announce new album ‘Nature Always Wins’

Watch the video for lead single 'Baby, Sleep' now.

15th October 2020, 12:00am

Maximo Park return with ‘Child Of The Flatlands’

It's their first new music in almost four years.

14th September 2020, 12:00am

Two Door Cinema Club, The Libertines, Supergrass and more to play Virgin Money Unity Arena

They'll be performing at the UK's first socially distanced live music arena this summer.

7th July 2020, 12:00am

Maximo Park - Risk To Exist

3 Stars

An album of admirable protest poetry with an incidentally musical backdrop.

21st April 2017, 12:02pm

Maximo Park have shared an alternative video for ‘Risk To Exist’

It highlights the rescues undertaken by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).

11th February 2017, 12:00am

Maximo Park announced for Live at Leeds ‘finale’

The gig takes place the day after the event itself.

8th February 2017, 12:00am

Maximo Park are releasing new album ‘Risk To Exist’ in April

The Newcastle bunch have also shared the energetic title track.

23rd January 2017, 12:00am

Maximo Park, The Roundhouse, London

Vibrant and massively entertaining.

20th December 2015, 12:00am

Maximo Park announce further anniversary show

They’re playing Hartlepool this December.

17th September 2015, 12:00am

Paul Smith says next Maximo Park album “is on the distant horizon”

In a new interview with the frontman, he says there are "six songs" the band have started work on.

7th August 2015, 12:00am

Maximo Park announce 10th anniversary shows for ‘A Certain Trigger’

Debut album will receive a limited edition repress out in October.

13th May 2015, 12:00am

Maximo Park announce one-off Edinburgh show

The band will perform at the Liquid Rooms as their first live show of 2015.

20th January 2015, 12:00am

Paul Smith and Peter Brewis reveal new video for ‘L.A. Street Cleaner’

The pair's new video shows a hypnotising whirlpool of coloured reflections.

20th November 2014, 12:00am

Paul Smith and Peter Brewis announce collaborative album, ‘Frozen By Sight’

Field Music and Maxïmo Park head honchos are joining forces for a November release.

14th August 2014, 12:00am

Live Review

Maximo Park, The Forum, London

Whether Smith is gyrating, hip-shaking, or doing the robot, it’s all pulled off with a kind of furious joy.

24th March 2014, 9:27am

Maximo Park – Too Much Information

3 Stars

When they're not absolutely desperate to demonstrate the extent of their intelligence they're still capable of making something with merit.

2nd February 2014, 4:11pm

News

Listen: Maximo Park Stream ‘Too Much Information’ Album In Full

New album features production credits from Field Music's Brewis brothers and Dave Okumu from The Invisible.

27th January 2014, 3:58pm

News

Premiere: Watch: Maximo Park Unveil ‘Lydia, The Ink Will Never Dry’ Video

Watch a (very) devoted fan get inked up in the name of Maximo Park.

23rd January 2014, 10:13am