Alabama Shakes Announce November 2012 European Tour Dates

New Single ‘Hang Loose’ Out 23rd July              

Following a string of sold out European dates and a US tour supporting Jack White earlier this year,Alabama Shakes have announced that they will be doing a full European tour this November, which will include their two biggest headline shows to date at London’s Coronet and The Forum. Tickets for all dates will go on sale at 9am GMT on Friday 29th June, except for Paris which will go on sale on Wednesday 27th June at11am GMT.

November 2012 dates:

4th – Muffahalle – Munich, Germany

5th – Astra – Berlin, Germany

6th – Docks – Hamburg, Germany

8th – Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands

9th – AB – Brussels, Belgium

10th – La Cigale / Les Inrocks – Paris, France

12th – Academy 1 – Manchester, UK

13th – Barrowlands – Glasgow, UK

16th – Coronet – London, UK

17th – Forum – London, UK

The band’s new single ‘Hang Loose’ – the follow-up to‘Hold On’ – will be released on 23rd July. The track is taken from their debut album‘Boys & Girls’, which charted at number 3 in the UK.

Watch the band performing ‘Hang Loose’ live at London’s legendary KONK studios here:

‘Their raucous live shows are already the stuff of legend. The future is theirs for the taking’ – NME

‘Explosive southern soul, set to storm the globe’ – Total Guitar

‘Loved by Adele and Jack White, this new southern blues queen and her band rock with timeless verve’ –The Observer

‘The rabble-rousing Alabama Shakes are doing for r&b what the White Stripes did for the blues’ – The Saturday Telegraph