Joy Crookes Announces new UK and EU headline tour
Joy Crookes
Announces new UK and EU headline tour
ahead of her much anticipated debut album Skin
due for release October 15th via Insanity Records
Praise for ‘Skin’
“the stunning title track from the Londoner’s debut album is classic, don’t-give-up soul balladry at its most heart tugging and plangent” – Sunday Times Culture
“[Skin] finds Joy Crookes delving deeper than ever before, engaging with some of her innermost feelings” – Clash
“[Skin] finds Joy Crookes delving deeper than ever before, engaging with some of her innermost feelings” – Notion
Praise for ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’
“powerful” – NME
“Joy Crookes has had an instant classic to her discography. Incredible stuff” – Gigwise
“mesmerising” – Complex
“Crookes has nuance and empathy in spades… she shows no signs of coming down before her debut album finally arrives this year” – The Forty-Five
STREAM ‘When You Were Mine’
PREORDER Skin (album)
Joy Crookes has today announced her headline UK and European tour dates, ahead of her debut album Skin released on October 15th via Insanity Records. The tour, which kicks off in November in Brighton, sees Joy headline London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, and extends into next year when Joy will take the show out to Europe.
Pre-sale begins 9am Tuesday 7th September, with general sale on 9am Thursday 9th September. For more info visit – https://smarturl.it/JoyCrookesTourTicket.
UK DATES
Sat 06 Nov 2021 – Brighton, England – Concorde 2
Sun 07 Nov 2021 – Bristol, England – The Trinity Centre
Mon 08 Nov 2021 – London, England – O2 Forum Kentish Town
Tue 09 Nov 2021 – London, England – O2 Forum Kentish Town
Thu 11 Nov 2021 – Dublin, Republic of Ireland – The Academy
Sun 14 Nov 2021 – Manchester, England – Manchester Academy
Mon 15 Nov 2021 – Glasgow, Scotland – St Luke’s
Wed 17 Nov 2021 – Leeds, England – Leeds University Stylus
Thu 18 Nov 2021 – Birmingham, England – The O2 Institute
EUROPEAN DATES
Thu 10 Feb 2022 – Paris, France – La Gaîté Lyrique
Fri 11 Feb 2022 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
Sat 12 Feb 2022 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
Mon 14 Feb 2022 – Cologne, Germany – Gebaude 9
Tue 15 Feb 2022 – Munich, Germany – Strom
Thu 17 Feb 2022 – Berlin, Germany – Heimathafen Neukoelln
Fri 18 Feb 2022 – Hamburg, Germany – The Stage Club
Sun 20 Feb 2022 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
Mon 21 Feb 2022 – Helsinki, Finland – Tavastia Club
Tue 22 Feb 2022 – Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
Wed 23 Feb 2022 – Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen Klubb
Fri 25 Feb 2022 – Warsaw, Poland – Hybrydy
Sat 26 Feb 2022 – Zurich, Switzerland – Exil Club
Last week Joy shared her new single ‘When You Were Mine’, which premiered as Charli XCX’s Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1. Potentially Joy’s most cinematic single yet, built around a full brass section and detailing nostalgic summer nights in Brixton, ‘When You Were Mine’ is next in line in a series of immaculate singles from Joy’s debut album Skin, following the moving title track ‘Skin’ and lead single ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’.
With Joy credited as an executive producer on the album, alongside the formidable Blue May (Kano, Blood Orange), Skin is a hugely personal, gamechanging body of work from one of the UK’s boldest and brightest young talents. A collection of songs built and honed throughout her adolescence and into her early twenties, and finessed last year within the most turbulent of circumstances, Skin touches on topics such as mental health, relationships, and politics all with grace and sensitivity. Joy has created what can only be described as a truly special body of work that is both perfectly of the moment, and entirely timeless. Skin’s album artwork is shot by Carlota Guerrero, who has previously worked with Arca, Chloe x Halle, and Solange for all of her imagery for A Seat At The Table.
Skin tracklist
I Don’t Mind
19th Floor
Poison
Trouble
When You Were Mine
To Lose Someone
Unlearn You
Kingdom
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
Wild Jasmine
Skin
Power
Theek Ache
A proud South Londoner of Bangladesh and Irish heritage, Joy Crookes is a singer-songwriter, a masterful instrumentalist, a Brit nominated rising star, and an artist who sees herself as part of a beautiful eco system of storytellers, mavericks, and salt of the earth Londoners. Her unique approach to storytelling within her songs, partnered with her infectious charisma has seen her become a treasured and trusted new voice both musically and across her social media. Joy uses her creativity as a tool to understand her own identity, her place in the world and her relationships within it.
At just 22, she has acquired the most fiercely of loyal fanbases, notching streams into the hundreds of millions and has cemented herself as an important, influential part of new British music. After being nominated for the Brits Rising Star award as well as placing fourth on the BBC Sound Poll, Joy went on to become the most widely tipped artist of 2020 and sold out her debut UK tour in a matter of hours. She was due to support Harry Styles at The O2 in London pre-pandemic, and has played Glastonbury, BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Later… With Jools Holland, and her own sold out shows across the UK and Europe.
STREAM ‘When You Were Mine’
WATCH ‘Skin’ video
PREORDER Skin (album)
WATCH ‘Feet Don’t Fail Me Now’