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

Tickets available from Ticketmaster UK

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.