BLACK GRAPE ADD EXTRA ANNIVERSARY TOUR DATES

BLACK GRAPE ADD EXTRA DATES FOR ‘IT’S GREAT WHEN YOU’RE STRAIGHT…YEAH’ 21ST ANNIVERSARY TOUR

Black Grape have added three new dates to their forthcoming tour in November in December 2016.

Adding to the twelve dates already confirmed across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of their debut album ‘It’s Great When You're Straight... Yeah' , which they’ll play in its entirety, the band will now also play dates at the Riverside in Newcastle on Tuesday, 22nd November, The Old Fire Station in Carlisle on Saturday, 26th November and Roadmender in Northampton on Saturday, 10th December.

Following the success of last year’s reunion tour, Black Grape’s lead singer Shaun Ryder said, “I am loving Black Grape and really enjoying it this time round, more than ever. I'm looking forward to doing 'It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah' on tour and can't wait to get stuck into recording a new album.”

Rapper Kermit said, “'It's been an absolute pleasure doing the Black Grape gigs and I'm really looking forward to jousting with Shaun again and generally having a blast, man.”

'It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah' entered the charts at #1 on its release in October 1995, yielding the Top 10 hit singles ‘Reverend Black Grape’ and ‘In The Name of the Father’, and a third Top 20 hit ‘Kelly's Heroes’. The album will be re-issued later this this year, with further details to be announced shortly.

Black Grape was formed in 1993 by Shaun and Kermit while they were putting the finishing touches to the Happy Mondays’ album ‘Yes Please’, which the Ruthless Rap Assassins’ Kermit appeared on. It was Ryder's first musical project after Happy Mondays had imploded.

The tour beings on Friday, 11th November at Waterfront in Norwich and will end on Friday, 23rd at Dublin’s Vicar Street. 

Black Grape’s full tour dates are as follows:

November

Friday, 11th             Norwich, Waterfront - Tickets
Saturday, 12th         Cambridge, Junction Tickets
Thursday, 17th        Liverpool, O2 Academy - Tickets
Friday, 18th             Hull, Welly - Tickets
Tuesday, 22nd         Newcastle Riverside - Tickets
Wednesday, 23rd    Glasgow, O2 ABC - Tickets
Thursday, 24th        Edinburgh, Liquid Rooms - Tickets
Friday, 25th             Aberdeen, Beach Ballroom - Tickets
Saturday, 26th         Carlisle, Old Fire Station - Tickets

December

Wednesday, 7th       London, Electric Ballroom - Tickets
Thursday, 8th           Nottingham, Rock City - Tickets
Friday, 9th               Wakefield, Warehouse 23 - Tickets
Saturday, 10th         Northampton, Roadmenders - Tickets
Thursday, 22nd        Galway, Roisin Dubh - Tickets
Friday, 23rd             Dublin, Vicar Street - Tickets

Black Grape online:

www.blackgrapeofficial.com
@BlackGrape2015
www.facebook.com/pages/Black-grape/1564155197166024

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