News: Black Star Riders
April 30, 2013O2, Bournemouth
Announce UK Tour in November / December 2013
Including a date at Bournemouth O2 Academy in November
Black Star Riders, the new band featuring Thin Lizzy members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper / Megadeth), have announced their first UK headline tour.
The tour will support the release of their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose which will be released in the UK through on Nuclear Blast Entertainment on the 27th May 2013. The band already released their debut single “Bound For Glory”, which was premiered on BBC Radio 2 recently. The band are set to take the UK and Eire by storm on their 2013 tour, playing much of the debut album and some Thin Lizzy classics. Confirmed headline and festival appearances for Black Star Riders in 2013 include the below (with more dates to be announced):
November
| Friday 22nd | O2 Academy, Bournemouth |
| Saturday 23rd | O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London |
| Monday 25th | O2 Academy, Bristol |
| Tuesday 26th | Junction, Cambridge |
| Wednesday 27th | UEA, Norwich |
| Friday 29th | Hard Rock Hell 6, Wales – FESTIVAL CO-HEADLINE |
| Saturday 30th | Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton |
| Sunday 1st | Solus/University, Cardiff |
| Monday 2nd | O2 Academy, Oxford |
| Thursday 5th | Ironworks, Inverness |
| Friday 6th | Picturehouse, Edinburgh |
| Saturday 7th | O2 Academy, Newcastle |
| Sunday 8th | O2 Academy, Leeds |
| Tuesday 10th | The Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa |
| Thursday 12th | Rock City, Nottingham |
| Friday 13th | Ritz, Manchester |
| Saturday 14th | Academy, Dublin, EIRE |
Tickets for headline shows are priced 22.50GBP / 25.00 GBP London (subject to booking fees) – Dublin is E25. Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Thursday 2nd May, with tickets for the London show available from http://www.livenation.co.uk or http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk. VIP Packages available for all shows – including meet and greet and special acoustic performance ñ available from April 29th via the VIP package link at: http://www.blackstarriders.com.
Special Guests to be announced.
The album will be released as a standard CD and also as a special edition digi-pak featuring a bonus track “Right To Be Wrong” and a “Making of” DVD.
Videos
A 24-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes video reports from the band’s studio time in Los Angeles…
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