News: Toseland To Play Poole & Southampton

UK Tour Announced Including Dates In Poole & Southampton

Fresh from support to Reef’s 20th Anniversary Tour as well as a host of headline dates (including a sold out Islington Academy in Dec 2013) Toseland have announced the release of their debut album “Renegade”.

“Renegade” is an album packed with powerful rock songs – from the balls out album opener “Life Is Beautiful” to the melodic piano lead of “Kingdoms”, from the driving layered riffs of “Emergency” to forthcoming single “Crash Landing”. Previous singles “Life Is Beautiful” and “Renegade” were both A listed at Planet Rock and Team Rock radios, showing this is a band who know how to rock a melody. Pulsating rhythms are overlaid with the guitar work of Zurab Melua and the trademark distinctive vocals of James Toseland.

If the name might seem familiar it is because Toseland are a band fronted by double world superbike champion James Toseland. Throughout his career as a motorbike racer, music has been central to James life ñ so much so that he performed live at BBC’s Sports Personality Of the Year. When James was forced to retire through injury a journey into music started.

James met up with Toby Jepson (Little Angels) in March 2012 after a friend had recommended they might work well together. Jepson had no idea of James’ past but they clicked – personally and musically. James had the bones of several songs and an idea of the sound he wanted ñ one of the first tracks to emerge being album track Kingdoms (which James had been playing with for a while). The writing process was quick and the pair soon laid down instrumentation at Vale Studios with Jepson producing (credits include The Answer, Saxon and The Virgin Marys) and Steve Harris (Foo Fighters, U2) as engineer. James plays all the piano on the album. Vocals were recorded in five days at Jepson’s studio in Scarborough.

The band have teamed up with Pledge Music to launch the album. Simply go to http://www.pledgemusic.com/toseland. Once you have pledged you will get access to exclusive content, tour blogs and streams of other tracks from the album.

Toseland have already forged themselves a name as a powerful live act. 2013 saw them cross the country with a series of headline shows, supports (to Reef) and festival dates (Download, Planet Rockstock and the 2013 Moto GP at Silverstone).

Single: “Crash Landing” Release date: 10th March 2014
Album: “Renegade” Release date: 24th March 2014

Confirmed dates are as follows

Sat 29th March	York, Fibbers
Sun 30th March	Leeds, Cockpit
Tues 1st April	Guildford, Boileroom
Wed 2nd April	St Albans, Horn
Thurs 3rd April	Wolvehampton, Civic (With Status Quo)
Sat 5th April	Manchester, Apollo (with Status Quo)
Sun 6th April	Leamington Spa, Zephyr
Mon 7th April	Newcastle, Academy 2
Tues 8th April	Glasgow, Academy (with Status Quo)
Wed 9th April	Stoke, Sugarmill
Fri 11th April	Poole, Mr Kyps
Sat 12th April	Bristol, Exchange
Sun 13th April	Southampton, Talking Heads
Mon 14th April	Sheffield, Academy 2