News: Robert Plant has announced a 13 Date UK Tour Announced for November
June 24, 2014Including Intimate gig at Bournemouth O2 Academy + a New Album
Lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar released – September 8th
Robert Plant’s new album, “Lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar”, will be released September 8th on Nonesuch/East West Records. Produced by Robert Plant, the album is his label debut and features 11 new recordings, 9 of which are original songs written by Robert Plant with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters Justin Adams: bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals; John Baggott: keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals; Juldeh Camara: kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals; Billy Fuller: bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass; Dave Smith: drum set; and Liam “Skin” Tyson: banjo, guitar, background vocals.
The first single from the album, ëRainbow,í will be released this summer.
Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters will tour the UK for 13 dates this November. Tickets go on sale Friday 27th June at 9am.
Tour Dates are as follows;
November
Sun 9th NEWPORT, Newport Centre
Mon 10th BOURNEMOUTH, O2 Academy
Wed 12th LONDON, Roundhouse
Fri 14th HULL, City Hall
Sat 15th GLASGOW, O2 Academy
Mon 17th LEEDS, O2 Academy
Tue 18th NEWCASTLE, O2 Academy
Thu 20th CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange
Fri 21st WOLVES, Civic Hall
Sun 23rd BELFAST, Ulster Hall
Mon 24th DUBLIN, Olympia
Wed 26th BLACKPOOL, Blackpool Tower Ballroom
Thu 27th LLANDUDNO, Llandudno Venue Cymru Arena
All tickets are priced at £40 (except London which are £55/£40 and Cambridge, Leeds, Hull, Newcastle and Blackpool are £45/£40) and go on sale
Friday 27th June 9am and are available from:
http://www.gigsandtour.com / 0844 811 0051 / http://www.robertplant.com.
“Lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar” is Robert Plant’s first record since 2010’s “Band of Joy”, which followed 2007’s six-time Grammy Award winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, “Raising Sand”. Justin Adams and John Baggott of The Sensational Space Shifters appeared on Plant’s 2002 release “Dreamland”, while all but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s “Mighty Rearranger”. The new-album line-up recently toured the world before recording “Lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar” at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath, UK. “Rainbow” was recorded in Contino Rooms in London. Tchad Blake mixed all but three tracks on the album.
“It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” Plant says.
“The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood. I am very lucky to work with The Sensational Space Shifters. They come from exciting areas of contemporary musicÖI have been around awhile and I ask myself, do I have anything to say? Is there a song still inside me? In my heart? I see life and what’s happening to me. Along the trail there are expectations, disappointments, happiness, questions and strong relationships,” Plant explains, “and now I’m able to express my feelings through melody, power and trance; together in a kaleidescope of sound, colour and friendship.”
Track Listing
1. Little Maggie (Trad. arr. by Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
2. Rainbow (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
3. Pocketful of Golden (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
4. Embrace Another Fall (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
5. Turn It Up (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
6. A Stolen Kiss (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
7. Somebody There (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
8. Poor Howard* (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Tyson)
9. House of Love (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
10. Up on the Hollow Hill (Understanding Arthur) (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
11. Arbaden (Maggieís Babby) (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
*published by Folkways and Global Jukebox