Party: Lucy Spraggan

Party: Lucy Spraggan

Kilimanjaro Live presents
LUCY SPRAGGAN
+ Special Guests

Wednesday 24th October
The Nick Rayns LCR
Doors 7.30pm
14+
Tickets £18 adv


Lucy Spraggan has announced a new headline tour ahead of the release of her fifth studio album due for March 2019.

Spraggan returns to the live scene in October 2018. The tour includes huge shows at iconic venues such as Glasgow Barrowland, Manchester Academy and London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

“These are going to be incredible shows and I can’t wait,” said Lucy. “It’s going to be a different sound to the last record, I can’t wait for the fans to see what I’ve been working on.”

Other dates include returns to Nottingham Rock City and Norwich The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA, as well as Cardiff Great Hall, Newcastle Northumbria Uni and Birmingham O2 Institute.

For Lucy Spraggan, 2017 has already been a year to remember. The singer-songwriter has already netted her fourth top 40 album and followed that success with a huge tour across the UK and Europe.

Described as ‘a triumph’ by The Sun, I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing was released in January 2017, charting at number 12 in the Official Top 40 Album Chart. It was the second release under her own label, CTRL Records.

Frequently recognized as one of the leading lights in the LGBT community, Spraggan has managed to build her fanbase to a new high, with more than 12,000 tickets sold for her recent Dear You tour. Lucy’s festival season is looking equally busy with shows confirmed at some of the UK’s leading festivals.

Lucy appeared on the X Factor in 2012, since then her audition video has been viewed more than 40 million times. She achieved the unprecedented success of securing a top 20 single (Last Night) and top 40 album (Top Room at the Zoo) while still competing on the TV show. She was also the most Googled musician of 2012,

Lucy immediately signed to Columbia and her debut album Join the Club was a top-ten success. Her next record We Are was released on her own label, after Spraggan opted to take the independent route. The album just missed out on a top twenty position.

Lucy’s music-writing career began with Don Maclean and Kirsty McColl as her major influences, embellished with the folk riffs of Peter, Paul and Mary and taking on the punchy riffs of traditional R and B.

Her name is now synonymous with the cross-border sound she calls AFLOP; the melodic middle ground where pop and acoustic folk meet, the toe-tapping interpretations of classic sounds and the harmony-heavy ballads that she pulls from modern rhythm and blues, turning the rattle of rap into sing-along folk-style numbers that are hard to forget.

After releasing four albums in five years Lucy is probably due a rest, but she refuses to let up and the writing process is already underway for album number 5. Her live calendar is looking busier than ever too with another tour planned for the Autumn. Watch this space!


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