CHRIS REA Announces the ‘Road Songs for Lovers’ European Tour in 2017
London, UK – Live Nation is delighted to announce that Chris Rea will play a full European and UK tour in October, November and December 2017, to celebrate the release of his new album, ‘Road Songs for Lovers’.
The album will be released on BMG in September, with the European tour arriving in the UK for ten dates starting on November 21st at The Sage Theatre, Gateshead. Tickets for the shows will be on sale at 9am on Friday April 28th.
Like all truly great artists, Chris Rea has followed his own unique artistic vision and a path that is his and his alone. And although his exemplary musical output to date is deeply embedded into the framework of the world’s rock n roll DNA, it is also safe to say that his presence has been something of a glittering thorn in the side of an industry that has always had him down as a perennial outsider. Artist and painter, blues aficionado and self-confessed motoring nut, filmmaker and Italian-influenced classical music composer, eclectic and maverick are two terms that hardly come close to describing a man who has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide for just being himself. In 2017 Rea returns to what he’s best known for: an album of gorgeous rock ballads which showcases Rea’s unique voice and a songwriting skill at the top of his game. Rea is not alone in the company of musicians who Born in Middlesbrough in 1951, Rea released his found fame later in life – think Jarvis Cocker, debut album in 1978 and promptly had a huge US Leonard Cohen – and indeed it is interesting to note hit with the first track to be lifted off the record, Fool that he didn’t achieve UK Top Ten single status until If You Think It’s Over. In 1983, Rea's fifth studio the release of The Road To Hell (pt2), a record that album Water Sign sold over half a million copies was actually his eighteenth chart entry. Perhaps it is after I Can Hear Your Heartbeat became a Top 20 this fact that makes Rea such a breath of fresh air hit all over Europe. Rea’s follow up, Wired To The and a man effortlessly in control of his own faculties Moon was also a huge success and attendant tours as a singer songwriter. “I was never a rock star or of Europe would ensure that Rea commandeered a pop star and all the illness has been my chance to significant fan-base that has stayed with him through do what I'd always wanted to do with music,” he subsequent decades. says. “The best change for my music has been concentrating on stuff which really interests me.“ He In 2000, Rea’s, King Of The Beach reached the Top is obviously referring to his love of motor racing, 30 but his well-documented illness meant that he painting and the blues but if Road Songs For Lovers took a brief sabbatical from recording before proves one thing it is this: you can add beautiful, returning to his blues roots. poignant rock ‘n’ roll love songs to that pantheon of passions. Chris Rea plays:
October 2017
Saturday 7th Amsterdam, Netherlands Carré
Monday 9th Paris, France Salle Pléyel
Wednesday 11th Brussels, Belgium Forest National
Friday 13th Erfurt, Germany Messe
Sunday 15th Dusseldorf, Germany Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle
Tuesday 17th Leipzig, Germany Arena
Wednesday 18th Dresden, Germany Kulturpalast
Friday 20th Frankfurt, Germany Jahrhuderthalle
Sunday 22nd Mannheim, Germany Rosengarten
Tuesday 24th Stuttgart, Germany Liederhalle
Thursday 26th Dortmund, Germany Westfahlenhalle
Saturday 28th Hannover, Germany Kuppelsaal
Sunday 29th Hamburg, Germany Mehr!Theater
Monday 30th Berlin, Germany Tempodrom
November 2017
Wednesday 1st Munich, Germany Philharmonie
Friday 3rd Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
Monday 6th Budapest, Hungary Sportarena
Tuesday 7th Prague, Czech Republic Congress Centre
Friday 10th Tallinn, Estonia Nordea Hall
Monday 13th Moscow, Russia Crocus City Hall
Wednesday 15th St Petersburg, Russia Ledovi Dvorets
Tuesday 21st Gateshead, UK Sage Theatre
Wednesday 22nd Glasgow, Scotland Royal Concert Hall Friday 24th Harrogate, UK HIC
Sunday 26th London, UK Eventim Apollo
Wednesday 29th Birmingham, UK Symphony Hall
Thursday 30th Liverpool, UK Philharmonic
December 2017
Sunday 3rd Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
Monday 4th Sheffield, UK City Hall
Wednesday 6th Dublin, Ireland Olympia
Thursday 7th Belfast, Northern Ireland Waterfront
Saturday 9th Oxford, UK New Theatre
Sunday 10th Brighton, UK Centre
Tuesday 12th Bournemouth, UK International Centre
Tickets for the UK shows are on sale £60 / £45
All tickets are available from www.livenation.co.uk
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