Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott announce ‘Crooked Calypso’ and UK Tour

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott announce ‘Crooked Calypso’ and UK Tour

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Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott announce ‘Crooked Calypso’ and UK Tour

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott will release their third album ‘Crooked Calypso’ on Virgin EMI on 21st July. ‘Crooked Calypso’ boasts all the hallmarks of Heaton’s peerless songwriting: songs buoyant with melody, and redolent with biting wit, but also real emotion. First single ‘I Gotta Praise’, a euphoric secular Gospel anthem, raises the roof and opens the record in style. ‘The Lord Is A White Con’, meanwhile, considers religion as an exploitative tool of empire builders, while ‘She Got The Garden’ is the wittiest divorce song since ‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E’.  And then there is ‘Blackwater Banks’, a gorgeous Irish waltz that the Dubliners would be proud to call their own.  Some if not all of these will get an airing when Paul & Jacqui hit the road and they will also delve deep into Paul’s phenomenal 30 year back catalogue as a songwriter and will also perform classic songs by The Beautiful South and the Housemartins.

Paul Heaton, one of the UK’s most successful songwriters with some 10 million album sales under his belt, first came to public attention in the early 80s as front man of Hull-based indie poppers The Housemartins (the same group that spawned Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook), best known for their third single ‘Happy Hour’ and their No 1 acapella Isley Bros cover ‘Caravan Of Love’.  The Housemartins released two albums ‘London 0 Hull  4’ (’86) and ‘The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death’ (’87).  In ’88 Heaton formed The Beautiful South, who released 10 hugely successful albums – ‘Welcome To The Beautiful South’ (’89), Choke (’90), ‘0898 Beautiful South’ (’92), ‘Miaow’ (’94), ‘Blue Is The Colour’ (’96), ‘Quench’ (’98), ‘Painting It Red’ (2000), ‘Gaze’ (’03), ‘Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs’ (’04) and ‘Superbi’ (’06).   In 2001 Heaton took a break from The Beautiful South and released his first solo album ‘Fat Chance’. The Beautiful South called it a day in 2007 citing ‘musical similarities’.  Jacqui Abbott was lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from ’94 to 2000 and she sang many of their signature hits including ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Don’t Marry Her’ and ‘Dream A Little Dream’.  Paul Heaton went on to release two further solo albums: ‘The Cross-Eyed Rambler’ (’08) and ‘Acid Country’ (’10).  In 2011 Heaton wrote a musical called ‘The 8th’ based on the Seven Deadly Sins and asked Jacqui to sing one of the parts.  They have since released two acclaimed albums as a duo: ‘What Have We Become’ (’14) and ‘Wisdom, Laughter and Lines’ (’15).  Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s new album ‘Crooked Calypso’ will be released on 21st July ’17.

Tickets go on general sale at 9.30am on Friday 7th July.  Tickets for the Irish shows will be available here: https://www.ticketmaster.ie/ and tickets for the UK shows will be available here: http://gigst.rs/PHJA and here: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Paul-Heaton-tickets/artist/35771

 

The full list of dates is:

OCTOBER 2017

20        CORK Opera House

21        BELFAST Limelight  

22        DERRY Millennium Form

24        DUBLIN Olympia Theatre

26        GALWAY Radisson Hotel

27        LIMERICK Big Top 

28        WEXFORD Spiegeltent  

NOVEMBER

23        SUNDERLAND Empire Theatre

24        GLASGOW Clyde Auditorium

25        WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Hall

27        NEWPORT Centre

28        BRISTOL Colston Hall

30        MANCHESTER Albert Hall

DECEMBER

2          LIVERPOOL Echo Arena

4          LEICESTER De Montfort Hall 

5          WATFORD Coliseum

7          LONDON Hammersmith Apollo

8          BRIDLINGTON Spa

9          SHEFFIELD Motorpoint Arena


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