TEMPESTUOUS teen upstarts BlackWaters launch their new year with the high-octane single Down today and a York gig two nights later.

The Surrey hell-raisers are mounting their first nationwide tour in a series of co-headlining shows with like-minded Blackpool rockers Strange Bones.

Down arrives swiftly in the wake of BlackWaters' BCC Radio 1-hailed debut, the "anti-anthem" So Far Out, and is available on the Scrubs record label.

The song "oozes with passion, aggression and an angst-ridden unwillingness to compromise" and finds the outspoken four-piece in fiery form as they deliver a lung-busting clarion call against the powers-that-be: "I can't get down with people, people, people like you".

BlackWaters are gigging in 15 towns and cities between January 23 and February 11, and after playing Leeds Brudenell Games Room last night and York on Sunday, they have more Yorkshire dates to come at The Polar Bear, Hull, on February 7 the Leadmill, Sheffield, on February 10.

In the line-up are four 18-year-old indie thrashers: Max Tanner on vocals, David Carpenter on guitar, Ollie Franklin on bass and James Watkins on drums, who previously performed a Yorkshire show on the BBC Introducing Stage at Leeds Festival at Bramham Park last summer.

Tickets for Sunday's 7.30pm gig are on sale at seetickets.com/event/strange-bones-blackwaters/the-fulford-arms