KT Tunstall announced that she will be touring the UK and Ireland in Spring 2019, this comes on the back of three sold out intimate rock club shows this September. The Scottish-born singer-songwriter is scheduled to, who is set to release her sixth studio album, ‘Wax’, on the 5th of October, visit Dublin, Belfast, Dunfermline, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Gateshead, Northampton, Cambridge, Bath, Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester, London and Guildford between between the 4th and the 26th of March. Tunstall will kick of her 17-date tour in Dublin on the 4th of March and is set to conclude the tour in Guildford on the 26th of March.
Kate Victoria Tunstall, also known by her stage name KT Tunstall, is set to tour the UK and Ireland in support of her sixth studio album ‘Wax’. This set of shows cross the UK and Ireland will see Tunstall tour for the first time with an all-female band. This comes after Tunstall was awarded the Inspirational Artist gong at the Women In Music Awards. She was also chosen as the first ever female Grand Marshal, following the likes of Sir Sean Connery, to lead April’s annual New York Tartan Week parade.
“I knew before I started writing (Wax) that I wanted it to be an electric guitar record. It had to be visceral, about the physical, and the obstacles of that. It’s a record about human-ness, which we so often just write off as ‘flaws’. Wax evokes colonies of bees, candlelight, the material that the first long-playing records were made of”, she explains, “but more than that, wax is produced inside your own head,” says Tunstall.
The debut single “The River” is written by KT Tunstall and Martin Terefe and produced by Nick McCarthy, Sebastian Kellig and MyRiot. Speaking about the debut single of her new album ‘Wax’, Tunstall, said: “it’s about wanting to escape the madness in the world, escaping bad relationships, and wanting to be washed clean – emancipation through nature”.
KT Tunstall first emerged in 2004 with ‘Eye To The Telescope’ and has since released a further four critically acclaimed albums. News of her upcoming UK and Ireland tour comes following the release of lead single ‘The River’, from her forthcoming sixth studio album ‘Wax’. This is the second of a trilogy of works exploring themes of spirit, body, and mind which aims to highlight our complex relationships with physicality.
Tickets for the Spring 2019 dates go on general sale at 10am on September 21. Tickets can be purchased here.
September 2018:
26/09/2018 – London Jazz Café – London
27/09 – The FLEECE – Bristol
28/09 – Liquid Room – Edinburgh
March 2019:
04/03/2019 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin
05/03 – Elmwood Hall – Belfast
07/03 – Alhambra – Dunfermline
08/03 – Aberdeen Music Hall – Aberdeen
09/03 – Glasgow Barrowland – Glasgow
11/03 – Sage – Gateshead
12/03 – Derngate – Northampton
14/03 – Junction – Cambridge
15/03 – Forum – Bath
16/03 – Transhed – Cardiff
18/03 – Dome – Brighton
19/03 – Leeds O2 Academy – Leeds
20/03 – Birmingham Town Hall – Birmingham
22/03 – De Montfort Hall – Leicester
23/03 – Manchester Albert Hall – Manchester
25/03 – Roundhouse – London
26/03 – G Live – Guildford
