KING CHARLES ANNOUNCES HEAVEN SHOW HEADLINE TOUR & FESTIVAL DATES
King Charles is pleased to announce a special headline show at London’s Heaven on 31st May, as part of his national headline tour as well as a whole host of Summer festivals including Secret Garden Party, The Great Escape and Cambridge Folk Festival.
The tour, which will see King Charles play his biggest headline show to date at London’s Heaven, will begin at Birmingham’s Academy 3 on 28th May and culminates at Cambridge’s historic Trinity Hall on 2oth June. He will then embark on his busiest festival calendar to date, with slots booked in at some of Europe’s leading festivals including The Secret Garden Party and Hop Farm Festival with more to be announced.
2012 has seen King Charles take huge step forwards in his rise to glam-folk stardom. Having started the year claiming second place in MTV’s ‘Brand New For 2012’, topping the likes of Lana Del Rey and Michael Kiwanuka, being featured on Channel 4’s Mercury Prize Sessions and debuting in the alternative iTunes chart in America at an incredible number 18 with his EP ‘Mississippi Isabel’.
King Charles’ exuberant live shows have already taken him far and wide and his summer schedule looks set to continue this British star’s rise.
UK Live dates below;
4th May – The Cockpit, Live at Leeds
11th May – Warehouse 34, Newcastle
12th May – The Great Escape (The Guardian, New band Stage), Brighton
28th May – Academy 3, Birmingham
29th May – Bodega, Nottingham
30th May – Cavern, Exeter
31st May – Heaven, London
9th June – The Globe, Hay on Wye
12th June – Cellar, Southampton
13th June – Louisiana, Bristol
14th June – Forum, Tunbridge Wells
15th June – Ifor Bach, Cardiff
17th June – Ruby Lounge, Manchester
20th June – Trinity Hall, Cambridge
30th June – The Beat Herder Festival, Sawley
22nd July – Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton
28th July – Cambridge Folk Festival, Cambridge
29th July – Kendal Calling, Kendal
3rd Aug – Y-Not Festival, Matlock
4th Aug – Standon Calling, Standon
Watch the Lady Percy video, released today here
"King Charles has the potential to be big…" (NME)
"King Charles is unlike anyone else." (Sunday Times Culture)
"King Charles is set to liven things up in 2012." (Observer Magazine)
"Exuding coolness, Charles strode across the stage with outstretched arms as ‘Love Lust’, ‘Bam Bam’ and ‘LoveBlood’ were greeted with eager screams." (Daily Star)
"With the gig venues getting bigger, the band of screaming (mostly female) fans expanding and the French and Americans lapping up his English eccentricity, 2012 looks set to be King Charles’s year." (Evening Standard)