Glenn Tilbrook Announces Extensive Acoustic Tour
October 30th to December 20th 2011
Glenn Tilbrook announces an extensive acoustic tour for autumn 2011. Beginning in Norwich on October 30th the tour will visit 35 venues across Great Britain before returning to Glenn’s home of South East London with the final date at Blackheath Concert Halls on December 20th.
Here’s what the press release says:
The Acoustic Tour 2011 will be different from anything that Glenn has previously done before. Whilst the first half will simply be Glenn on his own, the second half will see him joined by 2 more musicians, Simon Hanson (who drums with both Squeeze and The Fluffers) and also Chris McNally, featuring percussion, acoustic guitars, Ukeleles, Indian harmonium, bass and iPads in a completely new show. As well as perform songs from his back catalogue Glenn will be showcasing new unreleased solo material and music from The Co-Operative (Glenn’s collaboration with Nine Below Zero).
A new unique and exciting aspect of Glenn’s 2011 tour is that every show is set to be recorded live and then made available at the end of the night from the merchandise stand. Speaking of the idea Glenn said “Over the years so many people have asked for recordings of the acoustic shows and now the audience will be able to take home a recording of the show that they have just enjoyed and were a part of”.
You know me by now – I need a copy of every single gig recording! Can’t wait for the shows. See you at the bar?
dates????times???? course I’ll see you at the bar!
October
Sun 30 Norwich Arts Centre
November
Tues 1 Whitstable Playhouse
Wed 2 West End Centre, Aldershot
Thur 3 Tivoli Theatre, Wimbourne
Fri 4 Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington
Sat 5 Princess Pavillion, Falmouth
Mon 7 Electric Palace, Bridport
Tue 8 12 Bar Swindon
Wed 9 The Space, Stroud
Fri 11 Colston Hall 2, Bristol
Sat 12 The Globe, Cardiff
Sun 13 Pontadarwe Arts Centre
Tue 15 Tokyo Club, Lincoln
Wed 16 Holmfirth Picturedome
Thur 17 Platform, Morecambe
Sat 19 Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh
Sun 20 The Ironworks, Inverness
Mon 21 The Green Hotel, Kinross
Tues 22 The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
Thur 24 Cafe Continental, Gourock
Sat 26 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
Sun 27 The Sage, Gateshead
Tues 29 The Arc, Stockton On Tees
Wed 30 Whitehaven Leisure Centre
December
Thur 1 The Grand, Clitheroe
Sat 3 The Met, Bury
Sun 4 The Duchess, York
Tue 6 Telfords Warehouse, Chester
Wed 7 Birkenhead Arts Centre
Thur 8 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Sat 10 Cox’s Yard, Stratford Upon Avon
Sun 11 The Robin 2, Bilston
Mon 12 The Stables, Milton Keynes
Tues 13 Colchester Arts Centre
Wed 14 The Brook, Southampton
Fri 16 South St Arts Centre, Reading
Sat 17 Jazz Café, London
Mon 19 Komedia, Brighton
Tue 20 Blackheath Concert Halls, London
Not a date at the Keswick in Glenside Pa? WTF — we would like to see you
dates/venues here – http://www.glenntilbrook.com/tour/
Wow that’s an amazing idea. I reacon he could be burning cd’s well into the early hours at some of those gigs
Glenn’s set is a lot longer than a CD so it’ll be interesting to see what songs end up on the finished recordings at the end of each evening. He’s recorded an entire CD of songs with people’s names in them, so it would be a fantastic idea to release 35 different versions of a live recording of that album. Let’s hope demand is high as it’s hard to make the economics of selling live recordings after gigs stack up – and I’d like him to do it every tour! Can’t wait!
Wish I could be there! Hoping some of my wonderful UK friends will volunteer to pick up concert CDs if I pad their Paypal accounts!
Kristi,
You read my mind.
Do we know how they are going to sell the live recordings?
Crowded House did it on memory sticks – it was cool!
I’ll quite happily pick up :o)
Memory sticks would be a much more practical way of duplicating enough copies to fill the demand – if you think about it, they’d only have minutes between the end of the gig and the audience leaving to copy, say, 20 CDs – an impossible task unless you have multiple copying machines. Memory sticks can be copied in seconds and you can burn your own CD if you want one.
I agree memory sticks are more adaptable. Most artists use an external firm like http://www.concertlive.co.uk/ to do their live show sales. Squeeze looked at doing something similar for their Spot the Difference tour but it didn’t work out. Fantastic that Glenn’s got it organised for this tour. :)
Boo – I wish squeeze had done one!
I was already excited enough to finally be going to one (well, three) of Glenn’s acoustic shows, now even more so.
Will people who are unable to make the shows be able to purchase these CDs??
I don’t know – will be interesting to find out!
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The 12 Bar in Swindon has now closed down, so the venue for Glenn’s Swindon 8 November date has been changed to The Vic
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Tel 01793 535713
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