Eric Clapton is ready to play two nights at London’s Royal Albert Corridor as a part of a six-date UK and Eire tour in 2024.
The 78-year-old guitar maestro will kick off the run on Might 9 on the Utilita Area in Newcastle, earlier than heading to Liverpool, Birmingham and Dublin, Eire, and wrapping on the iconic venue in Kensington on Might 20 and 21.
Tickets will go on sale at 9am on June 9, and might be out there from Ticketmaster (for the Dublin present) or through Bookings Direct (all different exhibits).
The ‘Layla’ hitmaker first carried out on the world-famous live performance venue with The Yardbirds in 1964, and he is since performed there greater than 200 occasions, which is greater than every other artist.
What’s extra, on June 23, followers can get their fingers on the expanded dwell LP ‘The Definitive 24 Nights’ from Clapton’s 24-night residency at RAH in 1991.
Clapton’s most up-to-date live shows there have been for the pair of Jeff Beck tribute live shows, alongside rockers akin to Sir Rod Stewart, 78, Ronnie Wooden, 75, and Johnny Depp, 59, final month.
The ‘Fantastic Tonight’ hitmaker organised the star-studded exhibits with Beck’s widow Sandra.
Beck, ranked fifth in Rolling Stone journal’s checklist of the 100 biggest guitarists of all time, received eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame twice – as soon as with The Yardbirds in 1992 and as a solo artist in 2009.
One spotlight from the present was Depp inviting ZZ Prime’s Billy Gibbons, 73, and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, 60, on stage, with the Hollywood actor singing as they strummed to a canopy of John Lennon’s 1970 observe ‘Isolation’.
Beck handed away on January 10, aged 78, after contracting bacterial meningitis.
Eric Clapton UK and Eire Tour 2024 dates:
Might 09: Newcastle Utilita Area, UK
Might 11: Liverpool M and S Financial institution Area, UK
Might 13: Birmingham Resorts World Area, UK
Might 16: Dublin 3Arena, Eire
Might 20: London Royal Albert Corridor, UK
Might 21: London Royal Albert Corridor, UK
