Embrace announce ‘Out Of Nothing’ 20th anniversary UK tour

Embrace have announced plans for a UK tour to mark the 20th anniversary of their landmark album ‘Out Of Nothing’.

The band will hit the road for 11 dates in November to play the album in full, kicking off in Newcastle on November 14 before wrapping up at the O2 Institute in Birmingham on November 30. The jaunt will also include a stop at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire the night before (November 29).

Tickets for the shows, which you can view below, go on sale this Friday (April 26) at 9am BST and can be purchased here.

Released in September 2004, ‘Out Of Nothing’ became the band’s biggest selling album of their career to date, debuting at Number One in the UK albums chart before going on to sell over 600,000 copies.

The album catapulted the band back to the top of the charts off the back of their Top 10 hit single ‘Gravity’, written by Coldplay‘s Chris Martin, and the band’s follow up hit ‘Ashes’.

It came three years after Embrace had been dropped by former record label Hut Recordings.

Frontman Danny McNamara said of the album and forthcoming tour: “I really can’t believe it’s been 20 years since we released the album. It was such a key moment in the life of the band, and the lives of us as individuals. The band took day jobs to keep going, we had no choice, but we believed in ourselves, and we believed in the songs we were writing. That’s where the album title comes from, we had nothing, but out of that we were determined to build something great.”

He added: “The fact that we managed to do that, and the fact that the fans were still there for us when we came back after being dropped by Hut is what makes this album so special to us. We’ve waited 20 years to celebrate the record, now’s the time!”

Ahead of the tour, Embrace will perform the album in full at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds on July 27, with Ocean Colour Scene, Ash, Sleeper and CUD. You can purchase tickets here.

Last year. the band celebrated the 25th anniversary of their debut album ‘The Good Will Out’ with a UK tour.

The full dates for their ‘Out Of Nothing’ tour are as follows:

NOVEMBER

14 – Newcastle Boiler Shop
16 – Manchester Academy
19 – Cardiff Tramshed
20 – Nottingham Rock City
21 – Oxford O2 Academy
22 – Bristol O2 Academy
25 – Southampton Enginerooms
26 – Brighton Chalk
28 – Norwich Waterfront
29 – London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
30 – Birmingham O2 Institute 

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