Professor Green has announced a new tour set throughout the UK. The rapper also released a new single entitled ‘Matters of the Heart’. The track was produced by Eddie Jenkins and Everyone You Know, and is set to be the first single lifted from the ‘Just Be Good to Green’ rapper’s latest EP, ‘M.O.T.H’, with a release date scheduled for September. Starting this November, Green, (real name Stephen Manderson), will go on tour across the UK, supporting the new EP. Tickets will be available from August 2.
His November tour dates are listed below:
16/11/19 – O2 Academy, Oxford
17/11 – Concorde 2, Brighton
18/11 – Waterfront, Norwich
19/11 – The Leadmill, Sheffield
21/11 – O2 Institute, Birmingham
22/11 – University Student Union, Newcastle
23/11 – University Stylus, Leeds
24/11 – SWG3, Glasgow
26/11 – SWX, Bristol
27/11 – O2 Ritz, Manchester
28/11 – The Forum, London.
Just a few months ago, the Hackney based rapper fractured his neck following a seizure, thus being forced to cancel the live dates of shows he was set to perform at the time. “I had a seizure this morning which resulted in a fall while I was packing for tour,” he said, adding. “Depending on how you look at this fall I was extremely lucky. I fractured vertebrae in my neck and subsequently had to cancel my tour that was due to start today”.
In December last year, Green launched a petition for the British Government to establish ‘National Grief Awareness Day’, promoted alongside a music video for ‘Photographs’, in collaboration with ‘Human’ singer Rag N Bone Man. Speaking about the petition, Manderson said. “I’ve been speaking a lot about grief lately – the grief of losing my dad and my nan. The thing about grieving is, it never stops. It’s something you learn is part of life once you’ve encountered death.”
He says further, “I find it hard to believe we have had no other way of connecting our experiences of grief, no day on which we can celebrate the lives of those we mourn to remind us it’s okay to grieve, to stop us internalising our grief and sweeping it under the carpet until it manifests in a far more ugly way.”
