British singer and songwriter Imogen Heap has announced a UK tour for October, including rescheduled dates in Oxford and Bournemouth.
Classically trained at a young age, Imogen Heap’s music explores through a range of sounds from electronica, alternative pop and rock to Euro-pop. Known for not only being one half of the art-rock band Frou Frou but also for her astonishing solo albums that she writes, produces and mixes.
Her latest album ‘Elipse’ gained her two Grammy Award nominations back in 2009, which she went on to triumph in the category of ‘Best Engineered Album, Non Classical’. The album, which is the latest of three solo studio albums she has released, was an immediate North American chart success.
Having taken on a number of successful tours, with Frou Frou and as a solo artist, Heap specialises in heavily produced and arranged singer-songwriter pop. Blending elements of rock, dance and electronica into her music, Imogen Heap has worked within a variety of music genres including rock, hip-hop and theatre/film music.
When asked about her use of manipulated electronica sounds, Heap commented: "I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums... I would record live drums, and then I would spend a day editing them to take the life out of them. I like to breathe my own life into these sounds, and I do try to keep the 'air' in the music. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.”
Imogen Heap will play the following UK dates:
October 2010
27th Empire Music Hall, Belfast
28th Button Factory, Dublin
29th O2 Academy, Liverpool
31st Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
November 2010
1st HMV Picture House, Edinburgh
2nd The Sage, Gateshead
5th Royal Albert Hall, London
7th Waterfront, Norwich
8th O2 Academy, Oxford
10th Coal Exchange, Cardiff
11th O2 Academy, Bournemouth
12th O2 Academy, Sheffield
Tickets are available from 9am on Friday 16th April.
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