The Darkness have introduced a brand new UK and Eire tour to have fun the twentieth anniversary of their debut album ‘Permission To Land’.
The brand new string of tour dates come following the band’s help slot for Weapons N’ Roses at London’s BST Hyde Park, and sees them schedule reveals for Glasgow, Manchester, London, Dublin and extra.
Set to kick off with a present in Belfast on December 2, the tour will include 9 reveals and follows on from beforehand introduced dates throughout Europe and North America. Normal on-sale for the newly-announced reveals begins this Friday (July 7) at 9am BST — go to right here to buy tickets and discover a full checklist of upcoming UK and Eire tour dates beneath.
The tour will mark 20 years since Justin Hawkins and co. launched their breakthrough debut album. Celebrating the anniversary of the LP, the band will carry out the complete tracklisting in its entirety at every of the upcoming dates, together with hits ‘Rising On Me’, ‘Love Is Solely A Feeling’ and ‘I Imagine In A Factor Known as Love’.
The Darkness may even carry out different hits from their seven-album discography, together with fan favourites from their different albums and newer tracks from their newest launch ‘Motorheart’, which arrived in 2021.
Following varied slots throughout the UK and Eire – together with a efficiency on the Roundhouse in London — the members will shut off their string of dwell performances with a set in Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun Corridor on December 16.
A deluxe version of ‘Permission To Land’, titled ‘Permission to Land…Once more’, can also be anticipated to reach later this yr through Warner Music — although additional particulars are nonetheless to be revealed.
The Darkness UK and Eire tour dates are:
DECEMBER
2 – Belfast, Telegraph Constructing
3 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre
8 – Norwich, Nick Rayns LCR
9 – London, Roundhouse
11 – Glasgow, Barrowland
12 – Manchester, New Century Corridor
14 – Bristol, Beacon
15 – Nottingham, Rock Metropolis
16 – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Corridor
Earlier this yr, The Darkness had their present in Liverpool dropped at an instantaneous halt after one music as a result of “an emergency within the constructing”.
The band have been performing on the metropolis’s M&S Financial institution Area again in January as a part of their co-headlining tour with Black Stone Cherry when the constructing was evacuated and crowds have been instructed to “go away by the closest exit”. Energy to the band’s devices and microphones was additionally reduce off.
After 20 minutes, the viewers was allowed to return to the venue – which is claimed to have been smoky – and the gig restarted. Again on stage, The Darkness joked that they’d “blown the fucking roof off”.
