CUMBRIA'S biggest indie band have announced they'll be returning to the county this summer.

British Sea Power will be calling in at The Brickyard on Thursday June 16, ahead of their high-profile dates at Latitude Festival and Jodrell Bank.

The six-piece outfit, originally from the Kendal area, have registered four UK Top 40 albums, and their track Remember Me was voted number nine in the most important tracks of BBC6 Music’s lifetime by the station’s listeners. 

The band have enjoyed an array of musical endorsements from the likes of David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead and Flaming Lips.

Full details of the latest UK tour are yet to be announced, including support acts and set-lists, though new previously unheard material is expected to feature.

Forming in 2000, their debut album, The Decline Of British Sea Power, was released three years later, swinging boldly from 30-second choral swoons to the 14-minute epic Lately. 

While it didn’t set the charts alight initially, it was massively acclaimed critically and as word of mouth about the album spread it was certified Silver over the next two years.

BSP are known for their sell-out rock performances as much as they are for their sensitive film scorings, including the From the Sea to the Land Beyond project, while their Sea Of Brass album also formed a tour that saw a huge homecoming show in Kendal at the end of 2014.

Vocalist Jan Scott Wilkinson, his brother, bassist Neil Hamilton Wilkinson, and drummer, Matthew Wood, were all brought up around the Kendal area, and the six-piece – which also includes guitarist Martin Noble, cornet and keyboard player Phil Sumner, and Abi Fry on viola – are now spread across the British Isles in locations as diverse as the Isle of Skye and Brighton.

British Sea Power play The Brickyard, in Carlisle, on Thursday June 16. Tickets are available from the venue's box office  on Friday.