The new video, again directed by James Slater, finds Ryder-Jones captaining a 5-a-side football team featuring his live band members against a team of local Evertonian heroes.

West Kirby County Primary, the third full-length album from multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Bill Ryder-Jones, is the follow-up to A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart and was written and recorded by Ryder-Jones in his childhood bedroom at his mother’s house in West Kirby before being filtered through Liverpool’s legendary Parr Street Studios.

Mixed by James Ford, each of West Kirby County Primary’s ten tracks offers a sneaked glance into his private world; they eavesdrop on a set of encounters that go about “turning stories into beautiful truth” set to glorious molten melody that explodes like fireworks over water. It all adds up to a record by one of our most cherished musicians – a musical polymath as at ease on stage with the Manchester Camerata (where he performed ‘If…’ as part of the Manchester Literature Festival last Autumn) or on live guitar duties with Arctic Monkeys as he is on production duties with Hooton Tennis Club and The Wytches.

Weds 20th Jan 2016 – Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland

Fri 29th Jan 2016 – Las Armas, Zaragoza, Spain

Sun 31st Jan 2016 – Astillero Ondartxo, San Sebastian, Spain (Music Box Festibala)

Weds 17th Feb 2016 – Crescent, York

Fri 19th Feb 2016 – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge

Sat 20th Feb 2016 – Cafe Indie, Scunthorpe

Thurs 25th Feb 2016 – The Ferret, Preston

Sat 27th Feb 2016 – Adelphi, Hull

Tues 1st Mar 2016 – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

Weds 2nd Mar 2016 – The Green Door Store, Brighton

Thurs 3rd Mar 2016 – Scala, London

Fri 4th Mar 2016 – Deaf Institute, Manchester

Sat 5th Mar 2016 – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

Tues 8th Mar 2016 – Stereo, Glasgow

Thurs 10th Mar 2016 – Arts Club, Liverpool

Fri 11th Mar 2016 – Moon Club, Cardiff

Thurs 7th May – Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland*

Mon 9th May – Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden*

Tues 10th May – Spektrum, Oslo, Norway*

Thurs 12th May – Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark*

Fri 13th May – Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany*

Sat 14th May – ISS Dome, Düsseldorf, Germany*

Mon 16th May – Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland*

Tues 17th May – Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany*

Thurs 19th May – Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria*

Fri 20th May – O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic*

Sun 22nd May – Zenith, Paris, France*

Mon 23rd May – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands*

Tues 24th May – Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium*

Sat 4th Jun 2016- Lunar Festival, Tanworth in Arden