Philip Selway has introduced a string of upcoming UK exhibits, following the discharge of his newest solo album.
The Radiohead drummer is at present gearing as much as hit the highway as a part of an upcoming solo tour – which kicks off in May.
The six UK performances will observe a collection of dates from throughout Europe, together with the Café Del La Danse in Paris and the Columbia Theater in Berlin. From there, the UK leg of the tour will start in Glasgow on May 15, and run via till May 21, the place it ends in Manchester.
Live performances will even be held in Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol, in addition to a slot at London’s Union Chapel on May 18. Tickets and a full checklist of tour dates might be discovered right here.
The tour follows the discharge of Selway’s most up-to-date studio album, ‘Strange Dance’, which was launched final month. The launch marks his third solo album, following on from 2014’s ‘Weatherhouse’.
Speaking with NME in January, Selway defined that he thought of engaged on the undertaking to be a “life-affirming process”, and described the ultimate product as one which maintained a degree of “intimacy”.
“Coming into it, I knew the soundscape I wanted in it. I wanted it to be tall, broad and able to contain all of these different musical elements,” he mentioned.
“Within that, I knew I wanted there to be an intimacy to it too,” he continued. “I got that from the way I delivered the vocals and the lyrical content. It’s almost like pillow talk and very conversational … I wanted to make a record that people could lose themselves in and find their own stories and safe spaces.”
Selway first introduced the album and shared the lead single ‘Check For Signs Of Life’ again in October. From there, he launched ‘Picking Up The Pieces’ the next month and, extra not too long ago, the title monitor ‘Strange Dance’.
Elsewhere in his interview with NME, he opened up about the way forward for Radiohead – including that the members have already begun “talking about future plans”.
“We have got together and we’re talking about future plans, but in the immediate future we’ve all got other projects which we’d all like to see through properly,” he mentioned. “There’s a collective desire to make music in some form or other amongst the five of us. We all really value that musical relationship, and that’s been there for 38 years. It remains really important to us.”
The dialog follows on from earlier feedback made by the drummer, which brought on headlines after he confirmed that Radiohead have been “going to get together” firstly of this 12 months.
Radiohead have additionally teased a twentieth anniversary problem of their sixth studio album, ‘Hail To The Thief’, which was launched in 2003.