First Aid Kit Announce UK Headline Tour For November & Tickets
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
First Aid Kit have announced details of a UK headline tour for November 2012 which will see them playing their biggest venues to date. Following their 2 London dates supporting Jack White in June, Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg will kick off the tour at Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 20th November. Tickets for First Aid Kit are onsale this Friday at 9am.
First Aid Kit will release their brand new single ‘Blue’ on 18th June via Wichita, following their appearance at Coachella and their US TV debut on Conan O’Brien, which is available to watch on YouTube here.
Their last single ‘Emmylou’ was a radio hit getting playlisted on Radio 2, 6 Music and Xfm and scored ‘Record of the Week’ plaudits from Edith Bowman and Mary Anne Hobbs. Together with their latest album 'The Lion’s Roar' entering the top 40 in the UK and selling 100,000 copies worldwide in the first six weeks of release (and a Number One spot in their home country Sweden which has since gone Gold) First Aid Kit have had a phenomenal year, reflected by their Spotify streams reaching an unprecedented 7.3 million hits. In the last year alone, the Söderberg sisters from Stockholm have worked with Jack White, sung for Patti Smith and toured with Bright Eyes and Lykke Li.
First Aid Kit’s first American-recorded and Mike Mogis produced album, 'The Lion’s Roar' juxtaposes sadness and beauty in the best traditions of folk and country music. They even cite the Louvin Brothers cheerfully brutal version of the old murder ballad ‘Knoxville Girl’ as the perfect example of the sweet and sour they adore. And this carefully constructed collection deftly succeeds in setting references to their home town of Stockholm and long dark Scandinavian winters against an unforced backdrop of country-rock swing.
21st June - London Brixton Academy (with Jack White)
22nd June - London Hammersmith (with Jack White)
13th July - Latitude Festival
31st Aug – 2nd Sept - End of the Road Festival
7th Sept - Bestival
20th Nov - London Shepherds Bush Empire
22nd Nov - Manchester Ritz
24th Nov - Glasgow QMU
27th Nov - Bristol Academy
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