Thursday, April 16, 2015
Songhoy Blues Announce New Single / UK Dates
Malian sensations Songhoy Blues have announced details of their next single, which is to be 'Soubour'.
Released on May 11 via Transgressive Records, the band performed the track on this week’s Later…with Jools Holland, the opening show of the current series. You can watch their performance here.
The band, who recently completed a run of ecstatically received shows at this year’s SXSW Festival, and currently on their first US tour supporting Alabama Shakes, have announced details of their biggest London show to date at KOKO in November and a UK headline tour in October.
The full list of UK dates is as follows:
MAY
15. Norwich Festival
16. Brighton The Great Escape
17. Braziers Park Wood Festival
28. London Village Underground - SOLD OUT
JUNE
21. Ballinglough Castle, Body & Soul Festival
JULY
03.Vicarage Farm, Blissfields Festival
AUGUST
16. Winchester Boontown Fair Festival
22. Green Man Festival
OCTOBER
22. Glasgow SWG3 Warehouse Studio
23. Leeds Brudenell Social Club
24. Brighton Concorde 2
25. Manchester Gorilla
26. Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
27. Bristol The Fleece
NOVEMBER
04. London KOKO
The band will be announcing further UK festival appearances shortly.
Their debut album, 'Music In Exile', produced by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was released to widespread acclaim in February of this year, and is set for release in the US on Atlantic Records in the spring.
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