City And Colour Set For April 2011 Royal Albert Hall Show & Tickets
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
Dallas Green, the Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire has announced he will play London's Royal Albert Hall on April 25th 2011.
The band name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour. His reasoning for the name was that he felt queasy "putting the album out under the name Dallas Green". Having recently tread UK stages with Alexisonfire, Dallas Green has revealed he will bring his melodic, acoustic folk music to London for a very special show at the historical Royal Albert Hall venue.
On September 30th, 2010, it was announced that Dallas Green plans to start recording his third studio album in January 2011, after demoing 14 songs. "There are a lot of musically unusual songs." Green has said about the record, "There's a lot more piano on these songs, keyboards and stuff. And there are a couple of songs almost I would say a bit rockin', if that makes any sense, not in a heavy metal kind of way, but just a little bit more upbeat than what you're used to hearing from me."
Dallas announced at several previous shows that he was preparing to sit down and record about 10 songs for a new album set to release early to mid 2011. The single set for the album is called 'Oh Sister' and has been performed several times by Dallas on tour. Several rumors swirled in past months that Green's new album would be called 'Fallen', but in an interview Green denied these "online fibs" saying the name of the album is his last worry and he has yet to even record the 10 or so songs he plans on putting on the record. He says he has about 15 songs he could record but would like to keep the album around 10 songs.
Earlier this month, Dallas announced via Twitter that he would be releasing a new single on iTunes called 'At the Bird's Foot' which will be on a compilation album called 'Gasoline Rainbows', which also features new songs by such artists as Damien Rice and Amy Kuney. The song was written by Dallas in response to the oil spill in the Gulf. All proceeds from the album will go directly to Global Green USA.
City and Colour will play the following 2011 UK Show:
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