The Enemy biography
March 2008 saw the band start production on their second album and playing six nights in a row at the London Astoria. In April 2008 the band played at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, selling out two nights. The next month they supported Kaiser Chiefs at Elland Road Stadium. They then headlined the Godiva Festival on 5 July 2008, a 30,000 capacity free gig in Coventry's War Memorial Park. They played Reading & Leeds Festivals on the main stage in August.
Along with Kasabian and Twisted Wheel, The Enemy supported Oasis on their 2009 Dig Out Your Soul Tour, which included the Ricoh Arena gig in The Enemy's hometown of Coventry. In March and April 2009 the band embarked on their own UK & Ireland tour, playing to 70,000 people, with Twisted Wheel as support as well as Kid British. Birmingham singer Emma Skipp joined them on "No Time for Tears". The Enemy were forced to pull out of Oasis's Heaton Park concert on 4 June due to lead singer/guitarist Tom Clarke suffering from food poisoning. Although the band returned the following night they were replaced on the middle night of Oasis' Wembley Stadium three night run by Reverend and The Makers. The Coventry trio said that they were forced to pull out of their performance on 11 July because their singer Tom fell ill due to lily poisoning.
"Be Somebody" is featured in the video game FIFA 10, and is the theme music to ITV Sport's coverage of the 2009-10 FA Cup, 2010-11 FA Cup and 2011-2012 FA Cup. A clip of their song "No Time For Tears" was used on the BBC advert for Lost Land of the Volcano. 'No Time For Tears' was also featured in the Wii video game Need for Speed: Nitro. "Be Somebody" is currently used for the title sequence of ITV's FA Cup football coverage.
Streets In the Sky (2012 - present)
After they finished touring
Music for the People, the band took a two year break before commencing work on their third album, playing the occasional show in the form of secret gigs.
The Enemy announced in 2011 that work had begun on their third album and had around 30 songs already written. They revealed the album was set to be released around late spring 2012, and also revealed that they had returned to their more original style of debut album 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns'. The band have signed to the Cooking Vinyl record label, working with original manager John Dawkins and new album producer Joby Ford (The Bronx). Tracks for the third album were recorded in London and Los Angeles - the band will be touring later in 2012.
On 21 February 2012, in a blog post made by lead singer Tom Clarke, the band announced the title of the album would be 'Streets In The Sky', and that they would be releasing a free single, 'Gimme The Sign'. The album is also set to include tracks such as 'This Is Real' (which the band put on their website in demo form), 'Saturday', '1-2-3-4 Ready To Go' and 'Bigger Cages Longer Chains'.The album will be released on 21 May 2012, the same day as the first of two gigs in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral.
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