Starsailor announce a ten date UK tour in December kicking
off on 11th December in Leamington Spa and finishing in Aberdeen on
23rd December.
'We can't wait to get out on
tour again in December. We've been busy working on some new tunes & we
can't wait to road-test a couple of them for the fans along with the old
favourites. Will be great to play some venues we haven't played before too' - James Walsh.
Starsailor’s initial run of success saw both their ‘Love is Here’ debut album and the 2003 follow-up ‘Silence is Easy’ hit #2
on the charts as they raced to a total of 3
million sales. After a five-year hiatus, the band reformed in 2014,
enjoying triumphant festival performances at the Isle of Wight Festival and V
Festival, plus special guest to James on their UK tour. 2015 saw them tour in
China, Korea, and a co-headline tour of the US and Canada with Embrace.
Their
return was swiftly followed by the release of their biggest hits through ‘Good Souls: The Greatest Hits’ (released
in September 2015 on Parlophone). The album was accompanied by the band’s first
headline UK and European tour since 2009.
The album kicked
off with the band’s three biggest hits in the shape of ‘Good Souls’ (#12), ‘Silence is Easy’ (#9) and ‘Alcoholic’ (#10). In
addition to those tracks, the album featured a further seven Top 40 hits,
as well as two brand new tracks ‘Give Up
The Ghost’ and ‘Hold On’.
“It's
been over 15 years since the band first formed and the songs still mean
something to people,” says frontman James Walsh. “They still sing
the words passionately back at us at gigs. We hear stories of how songs have
soundtracked key moments in their lives” - James Walsh
and were clearly in love
with rock 'n' roll and all its possibilities."
James
Walsh (vocals/guitar,) James Stelfox
(bass), Ben Byrne (drums) and Barry Westhead (keyboards), Starsailor shot to prominence in 2001
with the release of their debut single ‘Fever’.
After an early NME live review drew
glowing comparisons with Neil Young,
The Verve and Coldplay,
their 2001 debut album reached #2 shortly before they won the Philip Hall On award for best new band
at the NME Awards and Best New Act at the Q Awards. The
following year they were nominated for Best
British Newcomer at the BRIT Awards.
Released
in 2003, their second album ‘Silence is Easy’ featured two songs
that were among the last to be produced by Phil
Spector and also peaked at #2, with the title track becoming their
highest charting domestic single when it entered the charts at #9. The Thin White Duke remix of ‘Four To The Floor’ (featured here as a bonus track) topped the
charts in both France and Belgium, and also hit #5 in Australia.
They then
released ‘On The Outside’ (2005) and ‘All The Plans’ (2009)
which featured Ronnie Wood before Starsailor went on hiatus at the end of the year.
The band have enjoyed more than their fair share of
prestigious gigs, supporting the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Police, The Killers,
and U2, and have toured all over the world.
December 2016 UK headline tour dates:
Out In The Fields Of Winter Tour
11 December – The Assembly,
Leamington Spa
12 December – Concorde 2,
Brighton
15 December – Tramshed,
Cardiff
16 December – Engine Rooms,
Southampton
17 December – Waterfront,
Norwich
18 December – Rock City,
Nottingham
20 December – Plug, Sheffield
21 December – Riverside,
Newcastle
22 December – Liquid Room,
Edinburgh
23 December – Lemon Tree,
Aberdeen
For full ticket information, visit: www.starsailorband.co.uk
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