COMING back to the British music scene after a two-year break, Enter Shikari are returning to smaller venues — including Manchester’s newest music destination.

The hmvritz is the latest addition to the city’s live scene, with the 1920s Ritz Ballroom having undergone a £2million revamp this summer.

It relaunched earlier this month and already has a regular stream of club nights lined up, as well as live dates from the likes of Hard-Fi tonight, and Miles Kane and Ash in coming weeks.

Four-piece Enter Shikari have been playing in Europe and Russia, but start the UK leg of the tour on Wednesday in Norwich before heading to Manchester next Friday.

Taking a break after sound checking in Berlin, bass player Chris Batten said: “We’d heard the Manchester venue’s a new place, so obviously we’ve not done it before, which makes it an exciting place to go to.

“I have heard good things already and we are always up for playing new venues — not staying in the same places can help it to stay fresh.”

And the hmvritz isn’t the only new place on the tour, as the band played Poland for the first time earlier this month — and lead singer and keyboards player Rou Reynolds, guitarist Rory Clelow, drummer Rob Rolfe and Chris are heading to America later in the autumn.

“The tour’s going really well,” Chris said.

“It started in Warsaw in Poland, which is a country we’ve never played and it was great fun.

“We’re really getting into the swing of things and the support acts are going really well too.

“We have been to the States quite a few times.

“When we’ve gone before it’s been the big cities and we’ve had a good response but now it’s a more even schedule across more places so our name’s growing.”

The band’s latest single Sssnakepit was released last week, as the first track from the band’s third studio album — which is due to be released early next year.

Chris says it’s a good taste of what’s to come.

Celebrating ‘amazing feedback’ on the single is a turnaround for the four-piece, whose limited edition Live From Planet Earth DVD was all but wiped out when last month’s riots in London saw a warehouse owned by Sony DADC set alight.

The blaze left more than 200 record labels devastated by the destruction as 3.25million CDs and rare boxed sets went up in smoke.

“It was very, very disappointing but it’s the distributors we really felt for in the end — they have a lot of independent labels there,” Chris said.

“The insurance money’s not going to go very far, and it just shows how mindless it all was.”