Faithless announce 2024 ‘Champion Sound’ UK and European tour
Faithless have announced a UK and European tour for later this year, to go alongside news of their new album ‘Champion Sound’.
The dance legends’ biggest run of dates in 10 years will kick off their 21-date run with a show at Edinburgh’s O2 Academy on November 1 and will wrap at Copenhagen’s Poolen on December 14.
The tour includes dates in Belfast, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, London and Manchester – see the full list of dates below. Tinlicker will join Faithless as the opening act. Tickets go on presale at 10am local time on Wednesday (August 28), with general sale beginning on Friday at the same time – get yours here.
Faithless will play:
NOVEMBER
1 – Edinburgh, O2 Academy
2 – Belfast, Telegraph Building
6 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall
7 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
8 – Bristol, Document
9 – Brighton, Brighton Centre
14 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
21 – Dusseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle
22 – Antwerp, Lotto Arena
23 – Offenbach, Stadthalle
28 – Munich, Tonhalle
29 – Zurich, Halle 622
30 – Milan, Fabrique
DECEMBER
3 – Wroclaw, A2
4 – Vienna, Gasometer
6 – Budapest, Barba Negra
7 – Kosice, Steel Arena
8 – Prague, Forum Karlin
12 – Amsterdam, AFAS Live
14 – Copenhagen, Poolen
They follow a run of shows the group played in June, including a gig at London’s Roundhouse and appearances at festivals including Glastonbury, Camp Bestival and Wilderness Festival.
Last month, Faithless announced their eighth album ‘Champion Sound’, although no release date has yet been confirmed.
It will be their first new music since 2020’s ‘All Blessed’, and their first since the passing of former vocalist Maxi Jazz in December 2022. Alongside the album announcement, they shared the record’s first single ‘Find A Way’, which you can check out below.
“As many of you have noticed, we’re back,” the band wrote back in April. “Some shows have already been announced but we couldn’t start the summer without a little personal note. Maxi died just over a year ago and obviously we miss him every day. Thank you all for all of your kind words of support over this last year. It has really, really meant a lot,” surviving members Sister Bliss and Rollo wrote on Instagram.
In the meantime, we never stopped (couldn’t stop, never wanted to stop!) making music. Even during Maxi’s long illness we recorded and released ‘All Blessed’ and now finally, 8 years after our last live performance, we are returning to festival stages across the summer and are planning some of our own shows later this year…”
Elsewhere, in June, Sister Bliss shared her support for Nadine Shah’s decision to not to play Glastonbury festival over their low fee. She expressed how she hoped there could be a change in policy that would help support the artists.
“It’s time they change their booking policy and stop pretending to be a charity. And I say that as playing the best shows of my little life there,” she wrote. “The fact booking a headliner this year was a nightmare for them speaks volumes.”
Sister Bliss, meanwhile, released a solo single called ‘Life Is A Melody’ in March last year, and followed it up in February this year, dropping another solo track called ‘Do It Right’.
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