I was thinking in how much in advance they announce their tours, I searched in my mails and found this:
Privateering was released on September 3rd 2012, the first dates announced for the Privateering tour came out on August 27th 2012.
Privateering record was announced on July 18th 2012, so if they follow the same schedule, we are very very very close!!!!
So let's imagine the new album comes out in October, we'll have the tour dates in September, or if album comes out in September, in August we will have the first tour dates!
I'm really looking forward to it, specially to check if the start of the tour coincide with the musical in Edinburgh, or the London (or other not far away UK cities) with the musical in London! I imagine most of you are in the same situation, LOL
I bet that new record release date would be September 28th or October 5th