A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas—washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a storm, hurricane, or tropical storm or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as a man-made dam, as occurred before the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Flash floods are distinguished from a regular flood by a timescale less than six hours. The temporary availability of water is often utilized by foliage with rapid germination and short growth cycle, and by specially adapted animal life.

Causes

Flash flooding occurs when precipitation falls too quickly on saturated soil or dry soil that has poor absorption ability. The runoff collects in low-lying areas and rapidly flows downhill. Flash floods most often occur in normally dry areas that have recently received precipitation, but may be seen anywhere downstream from the source of the precipitation, even many miles from the source. In areas on or near volcanoes, flash floods have also occurred after eruptions, when glaciers have been melted by the intense heat. Flash floods are known to occur in the highest mountain ranges of the United States and are also common in the arid plains of southwestern United States. Flash flooding can also be caused by extensive rainfall released by hurricanes and other tropical storms, as well as the sudden thawing effect of ice dams. Human activities can also cause flash floods to occur. When dams, constructed for hydro-electricity, have failed, large quantities of water can be released and can destroy everything within its path.

Hazards

The United States National Weather Service gives the advice "Turn Around, Don't Drown" for flash floods; that is, it recommends that people get out of the area of a flash flood, rather than trying to cross it. Many people tend to underestimate the dangers of flash floods. What makes flash floods most dangerous is their sudden nature and fast moving water. A vehicle provides little to no protection against being swept away; it may make people overconfident and less likely to avoid the flash flood. More than half of the fatalities attributed to flash floods are people swept away in vehicles when trying to cross flooded intersections. As little as of water is enough to carry away most SUV-sized vehicles. The U.S. National Weather Service reported in 2005 that, using a national 30-year average, more people die yearly in floods, 127 on average, than by lightning (73), tornadoes (65), or hurricanes (16).

In deserts, flash floods can be particularly deadly for several reasons. First, storms in arid regions are infrequent, but they can deliver an enormous amount of water in a very short time. Second, these rains often fall on poorly-absorbent and often clay-like soil, which greatly increase the amount of runoff that rivers and other water channels have to handle. These regions tend not to have the infrastructure that wetter regions have to divert water from structures and roads, such as storm drains, culverts, and retention basins, either because of sparse population, poverty, or because residents believe the risk by flash floods is not high enough to justify the expense. In fact, in some areas, desert roads frequently cross dry river and creek beds without bridges. From the driver's perspective, there may be clear weather, when unexpectedly a river forms ahead of or around the vehicle in a matter of seconds. Finally, the lack of regular rain to clear water channels may cause flash floods in deserts to be headed by large amounts of debris, such as rocks, branches, and logs.

Deep slot canyons can be especially dangerous to hikers as they may be flooded by a storm that occurs on a mesa miles away, sweeps through the canyon, and makes it difficult to climb up and out of the way to avoid the flood.

Historical examples

1903: Heppner Flood of 1903; Oregon, United States: 247 dead

1952: Lynmouth disaster, England: 34 dead.

1967: Flash flood in Lisbon, Portugal: 464 dead.

1971: Kuala Lumpur floods, Malaysia: 32 dead.

1972: The Black Hills flood, South Dakota, U.S.: 238 dead.

1976: The Big Thompson River flood, which killed 143 people in Colorado, U.S.

1990: Ohio, U.S. flood of June 14: at least 26 dead. 1990: The Duck Creek Floods of 1990.

1997: Flash flood killed eleven in Antelope Canyon.

1998: Flash flooding in San Marcos, Texas, resulted from rains totaling from 15 to .

2004: Boscastle flood.

2006: Mount Rainier National Park flooding. 2006: Flash flooding kills 125 in Ethiopia.

2007: Sudan floods.

2008: The June 12–13, 2008 floods around Duck Creek in Davenport, Iowa. 2009: The 2009 Kentuckiana Flood resulted from of rain falling in less than an hour.

2009: Turkish flash floods.

2009: September 21–22 in nine Georgia counties: 10 dead.

2009: September 26 in Metro Manila primarily Marikina city, Taguig City, and Pasig City; and many municipalities of the provinces of Rizal, Bulacan and Laguna taking more than a hundred lives and leaving thousands of affected residents homeless. It also submerged several municipalities under feet deep of water for several weeks.

2009: October 10–13 in Northern Luzon causing major landslides in the Cordillera Mountains, and submerging 80% of the Province of Pangasinan.

2009: In late October, a rainy nor'easter caused several flash floods in Southeast Virginia and injured over 100 people.

2009: On November 25, more than 100 people died in flash floods that swept away highways and neighborhoods in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which was caused by heavy rains.

2010: April-May - The great Nashville flood. Water in the Cumberland river rose, flooding downtown Nashville and surrounding areas.

2010: June 11 – The Little Missouri River rose over 20 feet in only a few hours, killing at least 20 people.

2010: July 24 – Dehli lake dam on the Maquoketa River breached after of rainfall. 15 ft. chunks of highway broke off and swept down river, and steel guard rails were flapping like paper streamers in the wind created by the rushing water. Created further flooding, farther down river from where it spilled into the Mississippi River. Downtown Davenport, Iowa Streets closed.

2010: Mid–July till Mid-August – Pakistan's three provinces were badly affected during the monsoon rains when dams, rivers and lakes overflowed killing at least 1400 people and affecting 3.5 million people.

2010: August 6, Leh, India. More than 180 people are reported to have died with 400 missing and 300 injured due to flash floods, caused probably due to cloud burst. Injured and stranded public have been airlifted by Indian army. 2010: October 4, a giant chemical flood caused by the Ajka alumina plant accident occurred in western Hungary. A dam wall collapsed, freeing about one million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of highly alkaline liquid waste, called red mud, from the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County. The mud was released as a wave, flooding several nearby localities, including the village of Kolontár and the town of Devecser. The flood killed seven persons and the high pH (~13) of the sludge burned several hundred people and devastated more than 40 km² of ground in the basin of the Danube river. 2010: November 18, Flash flood in St. Lucia, an island country in the West Indies. Flash floods occurred as part of the 2010–2011 Queensland floods.

2011: August 19, Flash flood in Pittsburgh, PA: 4 dead.

See also

Freshet

Huayco

Further reading

References

External links

Scottish Flash Flood Public clip of the Fochabers flood in Moray September 9

Decision tree to choose an uncertainty method for hydrological and hydraulic modelling, choosing an uncertainty analysis for flood modelling.

Flash Flood Alley movie and video clips.

Flash Flood Safety information.

Great footage of flash floods in the arid midwest heading down dry washes after heavy rain.

Map of central Texas flash flood alley.

Workshop Proceedings Flash Flood Management

Workshop Proceedings Flash Flood Forecasting

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David Rankin is a New York-based Australian artist. He works predominantly in oil and acrylic on canvas, but also works with paper, prints, sculptures and ceramics. Rankin has held over 100 one-person exhibitions in cities across the world and his work forms part of many of the world's leading collections and museums. (see bio from Andre Zarre gallery site http://www.andrezarre.com/images/DAVID_RANKIN/DAVID_RANKIN_CV.pdf)

Life

David Rankin was born in Plymouth, Devon, England in 1946 then emigrated to Australia with his family in 1948. He spent his childhood in the 1950s in the semi-rural Port Hacking region South of Sydney and his teenage years in country New South Wales, from Hay, Wagga Wagga and Albury in the South to Bourke and Brewarrina in the North.

Rankin is self-taught, developing his techniques and ideas in the outback towns of his youth. He was inspired by the greats from Leonardo da Vinci to Paul Klee as well as being influenced by the history of Buddhism and Asian art.

In his travels before he arrived in Sydney in 1967 he developed a concept of what he wanted to achieve as an Australian artist. His dream was to express the anima, the life spirit or the essence of God in all nature. As an Australian artist he believed could bring the elements of Western Art together with an understanding and love for the cultures of Asia and the Australian Aborigine. He also felt that as Australia was closer to Asia than Europe it made sense to think about the art of Indian, Chinese and Japanese artists, and that one could not be an authentic articulate Australian artist without a love and respect for the artistic and spiritual expressions of the various Aboriginal peoples and cultures.

In Sydney Rankin had his first exhibition through Watters gallery at age 22.

Lily Brett

In 1979 his first wife died leaving him with a young child. In the same year he subsequently met his second and current wife Lily Brett, whose own life was etched by tragedy with her parent survivors of the Holocaust. She too migrated to Australia as a child after the Second World War in 1948. The artist recounts that his empathy for Lily and the pity for his first wife’s death fused into what he calls “the dark blessing of my life.” The darkness was transformed into images. The author Dore Ashton writes that the events of 1979 and the fire which ravished his studio in 1997 and burnt his art works and many personal possessions, had a profound impact on his work. From 1997 he became more interested in mortality and the works after the fire were called ‘existentialist.’

Having personal life experiences as his subject matter, Rankin's paintings contemplate these things. For example, his ''Jerusalem'' series followed a trip to Jerusalem in 1988, which then led to his ''Golgotha'' works. His travels to the Australian, American and Mexican deserts became the subject matter for many of his canvases, such as ''Ridge – Mungo'', ''Golden Prophecy – San Antonio,'' ''Grey Sonora Landscape'' and then led to his ''Witness'' Series. From the fire in his studio he then painted ''Buddha and Flames''. He illustrated two books by Lily Brett on the holocaust and explored the theme further in his huge work ''The Drowned and The Saved'' from a book by Primo Levi of the same name. Through Brett he encountered Jewish mythology and painted ''Black Menorah'' and ''Black Tfiln'' and as a testament to his love for her created his ''Husband and Wife'' Series including ''Husband and Wife Triptych III'', and ''Husband and Wife – Ying and Yang''.

In the past 30 years Rankin has held over 100 one-person exhibitions in cities as diverse as Paris, Beijing, New York and throughout Australia. He is represented in many of the world's leading collections and museums. He was selected as Australia's official representative in the UNESCO Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition celebrations that toured the world's capitals. He was featured in the Salon de Mai in Paris and the Chicago Art Fair. Among the many prizes and awards he has been honored with is the 1983 Wynne Prize, Australia's premier landscape prize. Recently an English-German monograph on his work titled ''"The Walls of the Heart: The Work and Life of David Rankin"'' was published by US critic and art historian Dore Ashton. In 2005-2006 a major exhibition of Rankin’s art, curated by Dore Ashton, toured through public galleries in Australia.

Personal life

In 1989 Rankin moved with his wife, poet, essayist and novelist, Lily Brett to live in New York. From their home in New York they continue to explore both their Australian roots and culture and the opportunities and challenges of being part of an international community. Their three children, including celebrated artist Jessica Rankin, also live in New York.

Commissioned work

Among his commissioned works are ''The Scorched Earth'', 1984–85, oil on canvas, diptych at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. The Committee for Bosnia, commissioned a poster, ''A Day for Bosnia'', at the The University of Chicago. His oil paintings, large watercolours and ceramics appear at the New York Vista Hotel.

See also

List of Australian artists

Jessica Rankin - artist, David Rankin's daughter.

References

Bio from Andre Zarre gallery site http://www.andrezarrefineart.com/html/DavidRankin_bio.html

essay accompanying show "David Rankin Work 1967-2004" by Madeleine Kelman Snow

biography Rezarr gallery site.

Bibliography

Brenson, Michael: “David Rankin”, The New York Times, New York City, December 21, 1990; p39

Carrier, David: “David Rankin’s Jerusalem Paintings”, in the catalogue for David Rankin, The Jerusalem Paintings, Ruggiero Gallery, New York City, 1989

Handy, Ellen: “Light of Australia, Walls of Jerusalem”, Arts Magazine, New York City. December 1989 [Vol. 64, No. 4]; pages 51–55

Larson, Kay: “Art”, New York Magazine, New York City, December 17, 1990; p77

Elwyn Lynn: “Rankin at Macquarie”, The Australian, Sydney; November 1990

Lynn, Victoria: “Balance and Duality in the Work of David Rankin”, Art and Australia, Summer 1996

Sheffield, Margaret: “David Rankin”, Review, New York City, May 1997

Bleiker, Roland: “Political Abstraction in the Work of David Rankin”, Social Alternatives, St Lucia. October 2001 [Vol. 20, No. 4]; pages 3–8, 16-21.

Dore Ashton: The Walls of the Heart: The Work and Life of David Rankin, Wien: Christian Brandstätter Verlag, 2001.

Dore Ashton: “After the Fire”, David Rankin: Works 1967-2004, touring exhibition catalogue, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah 2005.

Jeannet, Frédéric-Yves: “From the Heartland to a Hinterland”, David Rankin: Works 1967-2004, touring exhibition catalogue, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah 2005.

Dore Ashton: David Rankin – The Crossings Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York City, October 2006.

New York Arts International (http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view;=article&id;=287210:passage-and-crossings&catid;=182:noted&Itemid;=752)

External links

Adrian Slinger Galleries - Representing David Rankin exclusively in Australia

Margaret Sheffield Essay on David Rankin's Prophesy of Dried Bones series

Savah Gallery - resume supplied by the artist reproduced on this page as well as in this Wikipedia entry

Dore Ashton ">Essay by Dore Ashton

List of some Australian Galleries mentioned

Note on exhibition at Judisches Museum Wien

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Coordinates	28°36′36″N77°13′48″N
name	Enter Shikari
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origin	St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
genre	Post-hardcore, electronicore, metalcore
years active	1999–2003 (as Hybryd)2003–present
label	Ambush RealityTiny Evil (2007-2010)PIAS Recordings (Europe)Hopeless Records (America)
website	www.entershikari.com
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Enter Shikari is a British post-hardcore band with elements of electronica, dubstep, and drum and bass, formed in 2003 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. The band is named after a boat belonging to Roughton "Rou" Reynolds' uncle, and a character in a play which he wrote before forming the band, both of which are named Shikari. Shikari also means 'Hunter', in Marathi, Persian, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali. Their debut album, ''Take to the Skies'' was released on 19 March 2007 and reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart. Their second album, titled ''Common Dreads'', was released on 15 June 2009 and debuted on the UK Albums Chart at 16.

Biography

Beginnings and ''Take to the Skies'' (1999–2008)

In 1999 a band named Hybryd formed consisting of Rou on guitar, Chris on bass and Rob on drums. They released an EP under the name 'Commit No Nuisance' and featured the tracks 'Perfect Pygmalion' and 'Fake'. In 2003, Hybryd became Enter Shikari. They revolutionised their sound by recruiting Rory to play Guitar so that Rou could concentrate on electronics. Enter Shikari formed in St Albans, England in 2003. The band features Roughton "Rou" (/raʊ/) Reynolds on vocals and electronics, Liam Clewlow (known by his middle name 'Rory') on guitar, Chris Batten on bass guitar and Rob Rolfe on drums. All four members are from St Albans.

During 2003 and 2004, the band released three demo EPs that were available from their gigs and their website. They had another demo EP planned for release in 2005, (although no such EP materialized only recordings surfaced online) for this the first versions of Return To Energiser and Labyrinth were recorded, early versions of Ok Time For Plan B and We Can Breathe In Space were also recorded around this time but it's unclear if these were destined for the EP. In August 2006 they released a video of , the (only 100 copies) single "Mothership" which became the single of the week on the iTunes store. Their first physical single featured re-recorded versions of "Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B", which had previously been featured on one of the demo EPs. It was released on 30 October 2006. It was limited to 1000 copies of each format and sold out within the first week of release. In mid January 2007, Enter Shikari's first single, "Mothership", entered the UK singles chart for one week at number 151, on Downloads only (despite its physical formats not being eligible for charts [at the band's request]. This was followed a week later by "Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B", which charted at number 182 on the singles chart (despite its physical formats being ineligible for charts [at the band's request]) and number 146 in the Download Chart. In addition "Sorry You're Not a Winner/OK Time for Plan B" featured on EA Sports video game title NHL 08 and also Madden 08. Enter Shikari secured a spot on the Gibson/MySpace stage at 2006's Download Festival. They have also had interviews with popular music press such as ''Kerrang!'' and ''Rock Sound''. On 4 November 2006, they became only the second unsigned band to ever sell out London Astoria (the first being The Darkness).

They also made the ''NME'''s "New Noise 2007", a list of the bands it considers most likely to achieve success in the coming year (previous years lists have included the likes of Arcade Fire, Hot Chip and Bloc Party).

The next single released was "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour", on 5 March 2007. This was the band's second single to be released from their forthcoming debut album. It contained a re-recorded version of the song "Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour". It reached 27 in the Official UK chart. The band's debut album, ''Take to the Skies'', was released on 19 March 2007 and on 25 March it reached number 4 in the UK Official Album Charts. It contained re-recordings of many of the songs that had featured on the demo EPs and singles that were released prior to the release of the album.

During the month of March 2007 it was announced they would be playing at Download Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Give it a Name, Glastonbury Festival, Oxegen festival in Ireland and Rock am Ring in Germany. On 30 March 2007, Enter Shikari announced that their next single would be "Jonny Sniper" and would be released on 18 June. The song's video was premiered on 21 May. The single received bad reviews from ''NME''.

On 6 June 2007 they performed a live show on BBC Radio 1 for Zane Lowe at BBC Radio Theatre.

They played an eleven date headline tour in October/November 2007 including their biggest ever headline gig in the 4,921 capacity Carling Academy Brixton. The band released a compilation EP titled The Zone on 12 November.

Enter Shikari have performed over 500 gigs as of 2007 and played on the Gibson/MySpace stage at 2006's Download Festival. On 14 May 2007, Enter Shikari started their first North America tour. This followed into three more North American tours.

In January 2008, Enter Shikari performed in Australia and New Zealand for the first time as part of the Big Day Out Festival. The band also did a number of side-shows in Australia, including two sold out shows at the ''Hi-Fi Bar'' in Melbourne.

They played at Projekt Revolution in Milton Keynes on 29 June 2008, alongside Linkin Park, Jay-Z, N.E.R.D, The Bravery, InnerPartySystem and Pendulum.

On 13 May 2008, the band released the first in a series of videos called "Enter Shikari: In the 'Low". The videos, posted on the band's YouTube page, showcased the band as they recorded their new single, "We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape", and demoed new material. One of the new songs set to feature on the album was 'Step Up', which was first performed at Milton Keynes Pitz on 28 June 2008, the warm up show to Projekt Revolution the following day.

On 8 August 2008, it was announced that "We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape" would be released as a single. It was said to be a drastic re-working of the song originally demoed by the band back in 2005, but was not to be included in the band's second album.

They completed a tour of the UK and Ireland which took place over the course of 6 weeks; from 30 September to 4 November 2008; and consisted of 28 shows. A DVD compilation of live footage filmed by band / crew along with some TV footage was to be released to coincide with the tour according to a Kerrang! interview with the band, but has not been released as of yet.

''Common Dreads'' (2009–2010)

It was confirmed by ''NME'' that Enter Shikari had finished working on their second album, ''Common Dreads'', in March 2009 and announced that they would tour the UK and Europe during 2009. They also made available a free download of a new song, ''Antwerpen'' from their website. On 15 April 2009 ''Juggernauts'' was played on Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's "Hottest Track in the World" and was released as a single on 1 June 2009. The B-side of the single is "All Eyes On The Saint". The band also had help from musician Danny Sneddon who helped with the recording of ''Juggernauts''. On 1 May Kerrang featured their track-by-track of the album. Metal Hammer were the first to review the album online with a track-by-track. Since it was announced in an interview with Andy Copping on Scuzz on their "The Digital Darkside: Download Special" that there would be 2 secret bands playing at Download Festival 2009, it has been heavily speculated that Enter Shikari would play one of these slots. They were confirmed to be one of the secret bands on 9 June 2009. Enter Shikari also featured at Reading and Leeds Festivals on 29 and 30 August 2009, playing songs from Common Dreads, as well as acoustic variations of 'Juggernauts', 'No Sleep Tonight' and 'Adieu' from Take To The Skies.

''Common Dreads'' was released through Ambush Reality on 15 June 2009 and debuted at #16 on the UK top 40 album chart. The second single that has been released from Common Dreads was ''No Sleep Tonight''. The 7" vinyl, CD single and MP3 download was released on 17 August 2009. A slightly modified version of the song "Wall" was released as a radio single, and a video for the song "Zzzonked" made of clips of a live show which was played at Norwich UEA, was also released.

A 2-disc version of ''Common Dreads'' was due to be released in January 2010. Frontman Rou Reynolds announced that “We’ve got a different artist for each single from Hospital Records to do drum ‘n’ bass remixes so we’ll be releasing that as a 12". Then we're doing the same thing with (dubstep label) True Tiger who've done a dubstep remix of each single.” however it was later said in a Radio 1 interview that in fact they were only having their main singles remixed.

The new single "Thumper" was released on 19 January 2010, on BBC Radio One, As well the new single "Tribalism", which was first played on Radio 1, 16 February 2010. These songs come off the new B-sides and remixes album ''Tribalism'', which was released on 22 February 2010.

Since March 2009, drummer Rob Rolfe has not been able to perform at United States shows due to a denial of a visa. Rob has chosen Fellsilent drummer, Christopher Mansbridge to fill in for these dates. Although, on 9 July 2010 Rob stated in a Twitter post that he had obtained a visa. On 30 September 2010 Rob passed through customs at an airport in Houston for Enter Shikari's North American tour in October/November, and confirmed this in a Twitter post stating simply "America, I'm back".

Throughout February–March 2010, Enter Shikari joined the Australian summer festival Soundwave along with other bands such as A Day to Remember and Architects, playing shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The band then continued to tour Japan with A Day to Remember and Escape the Fate and in April–May 2010, they served as a support act, along with August Burns Red and Silverstein on A Day to Remember's Toursick.

"Live from Planet Earth and third studio album (2010–present)

On 14 June 2010, Enter Shikari announced that they had returned to the studio to do a "one off new track" called "Destabilise" which was released as a download on 26 October 2010, and a limited edition coloured 7" vinyl on 29 November 2010.

During June and July 2010, the band took part in the Warped Tour in USA and afterwards, they played a few festivals such as headlining Redfest and supporting The Prodigy at Milton Keynes Bowl. Following this, they performed an exclusive show at the venue Underworld situated in Camden which was filmed and recorded as a possible DVD release, though technical problems with the recording - caused by heat and moisture in the room - resulted in it being highly unlikely that a majority of the show will ever see the light of day.

In August 2010, Enter Shikari returned to Australian shores for a headlining national tour, playing sold out shows in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne and near-sellout shows in Perth and Brisbane. On 2 October 2010, the band went on their headlining "Destabilise" Tour in North America with Haste the Day, Sleeping With Sirens, MSWHITE, and Lights Go Blue. The band then supported 30 Seconds to Mars on their Into The Wild Tour leg of UK arenas in November and December 2010.

Also, at the end of 2010, the band collaborated with UK drum and bass band The Qemists on their single Take it Back which was released on 28 March 2011.

On 21 March 2011, it was confirmed that Enter Shikari will be playing at the Reading and Leeds festivals in late August and on 26 April 2011, the band confirmed a mainland European tour starting in Kiev, Ukraine on 7 September, and ending in Tilburg, Holland on 3 October 2011. Also, on 14 June 2011, the band confirmed a UK and Irleand tour which will take part during the month of October. Support for these two tours will be provided from Your Demise and letlive.

In May 2011, the band traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to record their third studio album. Recording began on 8 May 2011, and finished on 14 June 2011. On 19 May 2011, they released the single; "Quelle Surprise". It was originally planned to be the first single released from the new album however, Rou Reynolds has since confirmed that it wont feature, and instead will be a stand alone single much like Destabilise.

In June 2011, the band signed to Hopeless Records in the US, and embarked on the Vans Warped Tour for the second year in a row.

On 11 July 2011, the band released their third live album and first DVD, bundled together as Live From Planet Earth. Distribution of the non limited edition version of Live From Planet Earth and other Enter Shikari stock has been affected however following a fire at the PIAS distribution warehouse in London, after it was set on fire by rioters following the 2011 England riots. This was announced via the bands' Facebook after many fans discovered that the fire had affected the bands' label Ambush Reality, and Rou confirmed a majority of the stock had indeed gone up in flames in an interview with Rocksound.

In the fall and winter of 2011, Enter Shikari will embark on a US tour with The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, and For Today.

Band members

Roughton "Rou" Reynolds — lead vocals, programming, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic guitar

Liam "Rory" Clewlow — guitars, backing vocals

Chris Batten — bass, backing vocals

Rob Rolfe — drums, percussion

Discography

''Take to the Skies'' (2007)

''Common Dreads'' (2009)

Ambush Reality

Ambush Reality is an Independent record label started in July 2006 that currently only releases music by Enter Shikari. It is co-owned and run by the members of the band and their friends. The band has decided that, in order to tour in the United States, they will have to sign with a major record label in America. On 28 August 2007, Ambush Reality said that ''Take to the Skies'' will come out in North America in October 2007, with Ambush Reality joining Interscope Records imprint Tiny Evil. Ambush Reality have recently signed a distribution deal with Warner Music in order to make the album ''Common Dreads'' and future releases more accessible outside the UK and also more widely advertised and promoted. As of 8 December 2010 Enter Shikari / Ambush Reality have left distribution through Warner and will distribute throughout UK/Europe/Japan/Australia via PIAS.

Side projects

Reynolds has produced music as part of a side project with the name "Rout", which he sometimes performs in small venues and before shows. He previously used the names "Shark & Blitz" and "Routron 5000". The music develops on his penchant for electronics, resulting in a drum'n'bass/jungle/dubstep sound. Some songs feature samples of Rou and friends fooling around as well as iconic lines from movies or songs.

Frontman Rou Reynolds has also set up his own clothing company Step Up Clothing .

Drummer Rob Rolfe also performs as a DJ under the alias "Sgt. Rolfy" specialising in freeform hardcore music.

Enter Shikari promoted the film Zeitgeist: Moving Forward through their website, encouraging their fans to join the Zeitgeist Movement, stating: "Single-handedly the biggest influence on all that is Enter Shikari!".

Reynolds was also involved in hardcore side project JBM along with his friend Matt Pendell.

Awards

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References

External links

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