KT Tunstall Reveals Spring 2011 UK & Ireland Tour Dates and Tickets
Monday, 11 October 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Following the release of her eagerly anticipated third album 'Tiger Suit', KT Tunstall has announced a thirteen date Ireland & England tour for February/March 2011.
KT Tunstall has had a recurring dream since she was a child. She sees a tiger in her garden and goes outside to stroke it. She returns indoors and is seized by the fear that she could have been killed. Over the years, it has occurred to her that the reason the tiger responds so passively is that she herself is disguised as a tiger. That she is wearing a tiger suit.
Tunstall hadn’t stepped off the merry-go-round since scoring with her platinum 2006 debut album 'Eye To The Telescope' (which spawned three hit singles, the Grammy-nominated 'Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,' 'Suddenly I See,' and 'Other Side of the World') through its Top 10 follow-up, 2007’s 'Drastic Fantastic' (featuring the Number One airplay smash 'Hold On'). She eventually faltered on an illuminating trip to Greenland as part of the Cape Farewell project, where she lived on a boat with a group of artists, writers, and musicians who were invited to create their own response to the harsh landscape and the specter of climate change.
Over the course of a transformative three months and now suitably recharged, Tunstall began working on new material, demoing tracks in her newly built, solar-powered home studio. She reunited with her long-time collaborators Martin Terefe and Jimmy Hogarth, both of whom contributed to 'Drastic Fantastic' and 'Eye To The Telescope'. She then headed to the U.S. to work with songwriter-producers Linda Perry and Greg Kurstin, averaging a song per day.
Eventually, Tunstall amassed a staggering 75 new songs to choose from and Tiger Suit was recorded in Berlin’s Hansa Studios, where several legendary albums, including David Bowie’s Heroes, U2’s Achtung Baby, and Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life, were made. “There’s a lovely self-sufficiency in Berlin, where people are just doing whatever they want to,” Tunstall says. “It really informed everything. There was an angular nature to what we were playing and a fierceness that I felt was very appropriate for what I’d written.”
Sat 19th Feb - Radisson Hotel, Galway
Sun 20th Feb - Opera House, Cork
Mon 21st Feb - Olympia Theatre, Dublin
Thu 24th Feb - O2 Academy, Newcastle
Fri 25th Feb - O2 Academy, Manchester
Sun 27th Feb - O2 Academy, Leeds
Mon 28th Feb - The Assembly, Leamington Spa
Tue 1st Mar - Colston Hall, Bristol
Thu 3rd Mar - O2 Academy, Birmingham
Fri 4th Mar - O2 Academy, Bournemouth
Sat 5th Mar - Dome, Brighton
Mon 7th Mar - U.E.A., Norwich
Tue 8th Mar - HMV Forum, London
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