Friday 15 March 2024

Asleep at The Wheel have announced their last ever UK Tour in June

Asleep at The Wheel have announced their last ever UK tour in June with an extra special show feat. Joshua Hedley + Brennen Leigh

TICKETS went on sale at 11 am on Friday March 15.































Saturday 1 June 2024 @10:30 AM - Red Rooster 2024, Euston (Euston Hall, Euston, Suffolk IP24 2QW) Saturday Ticket £65.45 (£59.50) seetickets

Sunday 2 June 2024 @ 7:00 PM - Isis Farmhouse, Oxford (Haystacks Corner, The Towing Path, Iffley Lock, Oxford OX4 4EL WEBSITE) w/ Ags Connolly £32.40 Event

Monday 3 June 2024 @ 7:00 PM - St George's, Bristol (St George’s Bristol, Great George Street (off Park Street), Bristol, BS1 5RR) £30 Event  Their 580-seat concert hall was converted from a 200-year-old Georgian church, and is a truly special space where we welcome the finest performances

Tuesday 4 June 2024 @ 7:00 PM - Cadogan Hall, London (5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ), £45, £59.50, £66.95 each Ticketmaster UK


Asleep at The Wheel has been part of the American roots music landscape for more than 50 years. Although the band got its start on a farm in Paw Paw, West Virginia, asleep at the wheel became a cornerstone of the Austin, Texas scene upon its arrival in 1973. Inspired by western swing and honky-tonk country, the band has accrued 10 Grammy awards. Ray Benson carries the band back onto the road, where they’ve remained a staple for five decades.


All on stage together, all night long. These 3 artists will take you through ALL forms of Country and Western music playing their hits as well as special songs from the past for a non stop evening of fun.


Asleep at the wheel has been part of the American roots music landscape for more than 50 years. Although the band got its start on a farm in Paw Paw, West Virginia, asleep at the wheel became a cornerstone of the Austin, Texas scene upon its arrival in 1973. Inspired by western swing and honky-tonk country, the band has accrued 10 Grammy awards. Ray Benson carries the band back onto the road, where they’ve remained a staple for five decades.

Red Roster 2024 Festival shared : We are honoured to host the final ever Asleep At The Wheel UK festival show as part of AATW’s “Happy Trails” Tour. To mark this special occasion and celebrate our tenth year AATW will be joined by Red Rooster favourites Brennen Leigh and Joshua Hedley.

ABOUT: Fifty years ago, Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson wrote in his journal that he wanted to form a band to bring the roots of American pop music into the present. 

It seemed like an ambitious goal for a 19-year-old, yet Benson has done exactly that – traversing the globe as an ambassador of Western swing music and introducing its irresistible sound to generation after generation.
Although the lineup has changed countless times since its inception, Benson’s mission has never wavered.

That merging of past and present is effortlessly woven throughout two of the band’s new releases. First, their Better Times EP compiles three new tracks: “All I’m Asking,” a rousing plea for a second chance; the hopeful title track, about getting back to life as it once was (namely, before the pandemic); and “Columbus Stockade Blues,” a traditional tune arranged in the spirit of Willie Nelson and Shirley Collie’s 1960s version. Then, in the fall, a career retrospective recorded with the new band -- and a few special guests -- will carry Asleep at the Wheel back onto the road, where they’ve remained a staple for five decades….Read FULL BIO

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Megan Moroney brings The Georgia Girl Tour to the UK & Europe In September

MEGAN MORONEY BRINGS THE GEORGIA GIRL TOUR TO THE UK & EUROPE IN SEPTEMBER

Follows The Release of ‘No Caller ID’, 

Her Fastest-Streaming Hit to Date, and Her Sold-Out, Upgraded 2023 Tour
Low & Limited Ticket Availability + Resale
 

LONDON, U.K. – (2024) – Self-described “emo cowgirl” Megan Moroney announced her return to the UK for seven headline dates in September, followed by her first-ever shows across the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland - full dates for the Georgia Girl Tour UK & Europe below.


This follows the release of the Georgia-born, Nashville-based artist’s critically acclaimed debut album LUCKY last year - ranked by Rolling Stone as the #1 country album of 2023 - along with her first international festival appearance at The Long Road and a run of sold-out UK headline shows, with many venues upgraded due to demand.

Lucky featured her breakout, 2x Platinum-certified single ‘Tennessee Orange’, which has amassed over 287m Spotify streams to date, and was her first US #1 hit.

Additionally, she has been featured in VarietyThe TelegraphPopculture.com and American Songwriter, among others.

 

Moroney kicked off 2024 by sharing ‘No Caller ID’, her fastest-streaming track to date with over half a million streams on release day, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and Spotify’s US Top 100 (all-genre). On Friday (Feb 16) she shared an all-acoustic version of ‘No Caller ID’ from the Emo Cowgirl Live Sessions, watch here:

 

Tickets for the Georgia Girl Tour UK & Europe went on presale and general towards the end of February


MEGAN MORONEY - UK TOUR DATES:

Wed, 4 September 2024 - Tramshed, Cardiff (Clare Road, Cardiff, CF11 6QP)  LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK

Thu, 5 September 2024 - O2 Ritz Manchester, Manchester (Whitworth Street West, Manchester, M1 5NQ) LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK

Sat, 7 September 2024 - The Telegraph Building, Belfast (124-144 Royal Avenue , Belfast, BT1 1ND) £28.50 each LOW AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster IE

Mon, 9 September 2024 - Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow (242 the Gallowgate, Glasgow, G4 0TT) LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK

Tue, 10 September 2024 - O2 Institute Birmingham, Birmingham (78 Digbeth High Street, Birmingham, B5 6DY) LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK

Thu, 12 September 2024 - Cambridge Junction, Cambridge (Clifton Way, Cambridge, CB1 7GX) LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK

Fri, 13 September 2024 - O2 Forum Kentish Town, London (9 - 17 Highgate RD, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY) LIMITED AVAILABILITY Ticketmaster UK
Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK

EURO DATES
Sunday 15 September 2024 - Melkweg Max, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Tuesday 17 September 2024Vega, Copenhagen, DENWARK
Thursday 19 September 2024Pustervik, Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Saturday 21 September 2024Nalen, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Sunday 22 September 2024 - John Dee, Oslo, NORWAY
Tuesday 24 September 2024 - KENT Club, Hamburg, GERMANY
Wednesday 25 September 2024 - Club Volta, Cologne, GERMANY
Friday 27 September 2024Mascotte, Zurich, SWITZERLAND

ABOUT MEGAN MORONEY:

One of Country’s biggest breakout stars in recent years, Megan Moroney first burst onto the scene with her RIAA 2X PLATINUM hit single ‘Tennessee Orange’ — an immediate smash showcasing her true-to-life storytelling, unforgettable vocals, and strong-minded yet fiercely  sensitive point of view.

Along with notching her first No. 1 at Country radio and landing on coveted lists like the Los Angeles Times’ “100 best songs of 2023,” ‘Tennessee Orange’ soon found the Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records artist winning Breakthrough Female Video of  the Year at the CMT Music Awards and making her debut appearances on major TV shows like TODAY, Jimmy Kimmel Live!Good Morning America, and New Year's Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash.

A Georgia native who got her start singing covers with her dad and brother — and later  began penning her own songs while studying accounting at the University of Georgia — Moroney made her massively acclaimed full-length debut with 2023’s 
LUCKY: a powerhouse body of work that turned up on best-of-the-year lists from leading outlets like the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and the Associated Press (who hailed her as a “Gen Z songwriter  with Taylor Swift-level acuity”).

Produced by Kristian Bush and built on a timeless collision of Country, Folk, and Southern Rock, LUCKY also revealed the lived-in intimacy and electrifying impact of her songwriting on tracks like ‘I’m Not Pretty’ (her current single, praised by Billboard as a “cheeky, defiant clapback”).

As she continued her meteoric rise, the Nashville-based musician earned nominations by CMA, ACM, and Billboard Music Awards, in addition to appearing at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles as part of its illustrious SPOTLIGHT series inthe midst of her sold-out THE LUCKY TOUR — a fall 2023 run that brought her magnetic live show to iconic venues across the U.S. Recently featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30, MusicRow’s Next Big Thing Class of 2024, and Country Radio Seminar’s New Faces of Country Music, she kicked off 2024 with her stunning new song ‘No Caller ID’. 
With more new music on the way —and over 824 MILLION total global streams to date — Moroney will join Kenny Chesney on his SUN DOWN 2024 TOUR and take the stage at Stagecoach Festival in April.

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Wednesday 13 March 2024

Randall King returns to the UK & Europe this Summer

RANDALL KING RETURNS TO THE UK & EUROPE THIS SUMMER

Follows the release of his 18-track sophomore album Into The Neon and mainstage performances at C2C Festival Berlin & Rotterdam



 

























LONDON, U.K. – (13 Mar. 2024) – Texas native Randall King has announced his return to the UK, Scandinavia and the Netherlands this August for a string of headlining shows, in addition to two previously-announced festival appearances, as part of the European extension of his Into The Neon Tour.

This follows the acclaimed release of the “outlandishly talented” (Country Music People) singer-songwriter’s 18-track sophomore album Into The Neon, released in January via Warner Music Nashville and available to stream/download worldwide now.

Full UK & Europe tour dates below - tickets on sale Friday, March 15 at 10am (local time):

Randall King 

Euro Dates

Sunday 18 August 2024 - John Dee, Oslo, NORWAY  

Monday, 19 August 2024 - Debaser Bar Brooklyn / Main Room, Stockholm, SWEDEN

Tuesday, 20 August 2024 - Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, DENWARK

Saturday 24 August 2024 - Melkweg OZ, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

UK Dates

Sunday 25 August 2024 - The Long Road Festival, Leicestershire (Stanford Road, Lutterworth, Leicestershire LE17 6DH WEBSITE) £0.00 - £220.00 Ticketweb

Tuesday 27 August 2024 - Fleece, Bristol (12 ST Thomas ST, Bristol, BS1 6JJ) Event

Wednesday, 28 August - Islington Assembly Hall, London (Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD) Event

Thursday, 29 August - St Luke’s, Glasgow (17 Bain Street, Glasgow, G40 2JZ) Event

Saturday, 31 August - The British Country Music Festival, Blackpool, (Winter Gardens, 97 Church Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 1HLUK) WEBSITE Early Bird Weekend Offer £125 Tickets-shop

Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK | Artist Website

 

With inspiration drawn from the hues of neon that backlit his budding career – inclusive of the glowing skies in the plains of West Texas where he was raised and the radiant signs of the nearly 150 honky tonks he performs in each year throughout the U.S. – INTO THE NEON is a humble recollection of King’s experiences and observations.

 

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Co-produced by King alongside Jared ConradInto The Neon incorporates a unique blend of the influences from icons and modern masters alike who have inspired King’s sound; inclusive of the timeless country twang of George Strait and Keith Whitley, and the blood pumping, Y2K-era rhythms of Dierks Bentley and Gary Allan.


Having built his reputation as a road warrior in the USA, King spent much of the last year playing for international audiences, with an appearance at C2C Festival (2023) in London; returning later in the year to play sold-out, upgraded headline shows across the UK & Germany; and earlier this month, his biggest performances to date on the mainstage at C2C Festival Berlin and Rotterdam, joining superstar headliners Brad Paisley and Old Dominion. As he told Texas Monthly in February, “I’ve seen everywhere I can see in Texas, and I love it. But I’m looking at the whole world.”

For tickets and more information, visit RandallKingMusic.com or follow @RandallKingBand across all social platforms.

ABOUT RANDALL KING:
A West Texas native and self-described “old soul," Warner Music Nashville's Randall King has never wavered in his honky-tonk allegiance – in fact, he’s worn it like a badge of honor, growing with pride into a leading voice for today’s traditional country. Amassing over 300 Million streams with singles like “You In A Honky Tonk,” “Hey Cowgirl” and “Mirror, Mirror,” he’s kept the twang alive in country’s mainstream while also earning acclaim through deeply personal EPs like 2020’s Leanna, and his 2022 major label album debut, Shot Glass – which landed on both Whiskey Riff’s Top 40 Country Albums of 2022 and Billboard’s All Genre 50 Best Albums of 2022 (So Far).





















Schooled on icons like Keith Whitley, George Strait, Alan Jackson and John Anderson, but inspired by modern masters like Dierks Bentley and Gary Allan, King first built an independent, grass-roots following on the strength of his electrifying live shows – each one a harrowing mix of rowdy roughnecking, romantic tenderness and breathtaking emotion – never asking for permission to explore his creative vision.

He has since gone on to headline all across the U.S., the U.K. and Europe, where he continues to play nearly 150 shows a year and hone his craft where it matters most.

Named a Country Artist to Watch by everyone from Pandora and Country Now to Music Mayhem Magazine, his sophomore major label album Into the Neon, available now, takes that craft to the next level, as King’s neo-traditional roots meet the blood-pumping rhythms and sharp, arena-sized grooves of Y2K-era country and beyond.

Co-produced by King and Jared Conrad, and featuring 18 tracks, punchy sounds exist side-by-side with timeless swagger, further blurring the line between yesteryear and today – even as King renews his forever-country vows.

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Tuesday 12 March 2024

Little Big Town are bringing their “Friends Of Mine Tour” to the UK this September

Little Big Town are bringing their “Friends Of Mine Tour” to the UK this September






























Pre-sale started March 5 and the general sale began March 8

Country music enthusiasts across the UK are in for a treat as Little Big Town gears up to bring their FRIENDS OF MINE Tour to British shores in September 2024.

The Grammy Award-winning group will be joined by the talented singer-songwriter Ashley Monroe, promising fans a series of engaging and melodious performances in cities including Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge, Newcastle, London, Birmingham, and Glasgow.

UK DATES
Tuesday 10 September 2024 - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS) £57.20 each Event
Wednesday 11 September 2024 - Bristol Beacon, Bristol (Trenchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR) £41:25 each Event
Thursday 12 September 2024 - Cambridge Corn Exchange, Cambridge (Wheeler Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QB) £41:25 each Event
Saturday 14 September 2024 - O2 City Hall, Newcastle (Northumberland Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8SF) Event
Monday 16 September 2024 - Eventim Apollo, London (Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9QH) £38.50 - £63.65 Event
Tuesday 17 September 2024 - Symphony Hall, Birmingham (8 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EA) £41.25 - £54.45 each Event 
Thursday 19 September 2024 - SEC Armadillo, Glasgow (Finnieston Street, Glasgow, G3 8YW))£38.60 - £46.55 Event

The country's quartet were out early this year when they announced plans for the 2024 tour. The Nightfall Tour started with a Keynote: A Show at Historic Carnegie Hall in New York on January 16. Little Big Town will be the first dominating country to play on the pitch after Alan Jackson in 2013, the press release said. The Big City Night Tour takes place from January 16 to May 2, ending in Denver, Colorado. Meanwhile, the group will perform in more than 30 major theaters in the United States. Caitlin Smith opens all shows.

Little Big Town will also join Country music icon George Strait and eight-time GRAMMY winner Chris Stapleton with nine tour datesin 2024!
On Sept 16, 2022 the ACM, CMA and GRAMMY Award-winning band Little Big Town – consisting of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook – released their new, 10th studio album Mr. Sun (Capitol Records Nashville/ UMG Recordings) listen here (preferred platform).


The album debuted and peaked at No.56 on the Billboard 200 and No.10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums (14,000 equivalent album units).

The band also unveiled the music video for “Three Whiskeys and the Truth,” which was directed by Running Bear Film’s Stephen & Alexa Kinigopoulos – watch here. “Three Whiskeys and the Truth” was written by Fairchild and Schlapman alongside their beloved Love Junkies (Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose), ruminating on the feelings that hide in the dark but that always come to the surface somehow..

Praise for Mr. Sun included The New York Times hailing it “a sweeping record” and American Songwriter observed that “inside the record, notes reminiscent of the Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, and the Eagles ring out, but they’re all tailored to Little Big Town’s country expertise.” Rolling Stone called it “smooth and sweet, with just the right undercurrent of sadness,” with production that feels “spacious and golden.”

Billboard singled out the album’s “swelling” closing track “Friends of Mine,” as a “benediction to finding the collective strength to persevere through tough times,” while Rolling Stone further tied it to the full record: “Like much of Mr. Sun, it feels like a warm embrace from a loved one.”

The album’s lead single Hell Yeah (released on April 11, 2022) was co-written by Sweet, Westbrook, Corey Crowder and Tyler Hubbard.
The genesis of Mr. Sun was unlike any of their previous albums. Due to the pandemic, the band found themselves off the road and apart for the first time ever throughout their 20-year journey. The resilience and creativity born from those months unearthed a deep appreciation for both one another, and the privilege of making music – ultimately inspiring the self-produced Mr. Sun, which packs both the sparkle of storytelling and the heat of truth-telling in a way only Little Big Town can.

Mr. Sun is intentionally an emotional record that holds hands well with our last album Nightfall,” Karen Fairchild shared. “Mr. Sun is focused on better days ahead, the value of friendships and family; it touches on heartbreak and letting go, but it’s full of sunshine and joy.”

Little Big Town ALBUM Chart History
LBT’s previous album NIGHTFALL (released January 17, 2020) made a debut at No.1 on the Official UK Country Album Top 20 Chart (Week Ending 30 January 2020) it also topped Billboard Top Country Albums chart and peaked at No.13 on the Billboard 200.

Little Big Town landed their fourth top 10 album, as THE BREAKER made a Billboard 200 bow at No.4 with 51,000 units (43,561 from traditional album sales | Chart dated March 18, 2017).
The group previously visited the Billboard 200 top 10 with PAIN KILLER (No. 7 in 2014), TORNADO (No. 2, 2012) and THE REASON WHY (No. 5, 2010).

Little Big Town had the second-most top 10s among country duo/groups during the 2010 decade, trailing only Lady Antebellum, which has five top 10s since 2010. (Lady Antebellum had a total of six top 10s, stretching back to its 2008 self-titled release.)

The Breaker was led by the Taylor Swift-written single “Better Man,” which spent two weeks at No.1 on the Hot Country Songs chart (the group’s third leader on the tally). Over on the Country Airplay chart, it has spent the last two weeks atop the list, the act’s second #1 following up on 2012’s “Pontoon.”

Before The Breaker, LBT last charted on Top Country Albums with PAIN KILLER. In the week ending Oct. 26, 2014 it sold 41,979 copies and made a bow at No.7 on the BB200 (#3 Country).

LBT’s fifth studio set TORNADO (released Sept 11, 2012), powered by its hit lead single, "Pontoon," opened with a No.2 start on the Billboard 200 giving the quartet its highest charting album ever with best sales week (112,758 copies sold, then 50,321 copies sold in week 2 down 55%). It also netted the group their second No.1 on the Country Albums chart and more than doubled the first week sales of previous release THE REASON WHY (started at the summit on Sept. 11, 2010; 42,000 sold). By Dec 20, 2012 “Tornado” had sold 502,858 copies scanning GOLD at retail.

LBT first hit Top Country Albums with its debut self-titled set (No. 40, 2002), followed by The Road to Here (No. 12, 2006) and A Place to Land (No. 10, 2007), the first of the band’s five Top Country Albums top 10s.

For more news, tour dates, and information, please visit www.LittleBigTown.com.