Jack White announces last minute intimate UK shows
Jack White has announced details of an intimate UK tour, with all tour dates taking place later this week. Find out more below.
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Shared this morning (September 9), the new surprise tour comprises three UK shows, all of which will held later this week.
It comes in celebration of his new album ‘No Name’ – which arrived as a surprise record and marked the sixth studio album from the soloist and former White Stripes frontman.
The first of the three shows will be held at the Islington Assembly Hall in London on Friday (September 13). This will be followed by a show at the O2 Academy in Liverpool the following night (14) and a final stop at Chalk in Brighton the day after (15).
Sharing the news in a post online this morning, White confirmed that tickets will be available to vault members first, going on sale tomorrow (September 10) at 10am BST. The general on-sale tickets will be available tomorrow at 1pm BST.
You can sign up here for access to pre-sale tickets, and visit here to buy yours. Find a full list of dates below.
Jack White’s ‘No Name’ UK tour dates are:
SEPTEMBER
13 – Islington Assembly Hall, London
14 – O2 Academy, Liverpool
15 – Chalk, Brighton
News of the intimate UK shows comes as the guitarist, singer and songwriter hinted at some live dates last month – telling fans that he plans to take the album on the road by “playing at small clubs”.
“Lotta folk asking about when we are going to announce ‘tour dates’, well, we don’t know what to tell you but the tour already started at the Legion a couple of weeks ago,” he began. “People keep saying that these are ‘Pop up shows’ we’ve been playing, well, you can call them whatever you want, but we are on tour right now.”
He continued: “These are the ‘shows’. We won’t really be announcing dates in advance so much, we will mostly be playing at small clubs, backyard fetes, and a few festivals here and there to help pay for expenses. Shows will be announced as close to the show date as possible, some shows we won’t even decide to do until that morning.”
In a four-star review of ‘No Name’, NME called the album White’s “punkiest outing since White Stripes”, adding: “This is an ode to the mystique of rock’n’roll and to the joy of music at its most physical and playful.
“Teasing doesn’t always lead to satisfaction. Just cut to the chase – and this one’s a bone-rattling ride. White’s revelling in the real world and has made it a much more thrilling place.”
White kicked off his run of live dates at the American Legion Post 82 bar in Nashville, Tennessee earlier this summer before taking to the stage in Atlanta and Athens ahead of some European festival appearances.
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