Liverpool's crossover thrashers SSS are currently gearing up for a UK tour in a couple of weeks with Canadian punks CANCER BATS.

SSS bassist Mark Magill reports on what the band have been up to since the release of their second album, The Dividing Line, last year:

"It's been a while since we've been out and about, so we can't wait to hit the road this month. Dave had a baby, I insulated my loft, Foxy has been making brownies and Pete has been researching the dynamics of paper airplanes. We've also written 14 new songs for our next record and they're getting so short, fast and heavy it's ridiculous. Come down and say hello!"

Additionally, self-confessed football fans SSS remember the Hillsborough tragedy that occurred 20 years ago. On the anniversary of

the terrible events, the band share their thoughts:

"On 15th April 1989, 96 people went to a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield and never returned home. For the past 20 years their families have been campaigning for the justice they have never received, and also to change public perception of what happened at that day. We wrote a song called '3:06' on the second SSS album The Dividing Line and it makes our feelings on the subject known, but check out this information and make your own mind up."

Read about the events surrounding the Hillsborough disaster along

with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign at this location.

Catch SSS live at the following shows:

April

25 - Wakefield, UK - Full Thrash Assault, The Snooty Fox
26 - Colchester, UK - Arts Centre*
27 - Oxford, UK – Academy*
28 - Cardiff, UK – Barfly*
30 - Leeds, UK - The Cockpit*

May

1 - Stoke, UK - The Sugarmill*
2 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City*
3 - Manchester, UK - Academy 3*
4 - Birmingham, UK - Academy 2*
5 - Bristol, UK - Academy 2*
6 - Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms*
7 - London, UK - The Underworld*
20 - Liverpool, UK - Liverpool Music Week, Barfly
23 - London, UK - Slaughterday, The Purple Turtle

(* with Cancer Bats, The Plight)