Lottery Winners have announced a seven-date UK tour for next year, including a show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – buy tickets here.
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The Leigh four-piece will be visiting Bristol, Bournemouth, London, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham on their ‘Keep On Keeping On’ tour, which is set to run from February 20 to March 1.
The tour will follow on from their three shows at Manchester Academy at the end of December, while they’ll also be supporting Jamie Webster and Blossoms next month. The band will also be at Isle Of Wight Festival next year, too.
They shared the news of their UK tour on social media yesterday (October 7), saying, “Very nervous to announce our biggest ever tour playing our biggest ever venues. Proper venues for proper bands.”
The band announced their new album ‘KOKO’, out on February 21 next year, last month – along with the single ‘You Again’ featuring Reverend & The Makers frontman Jon McClure. And fans can pre-order the album from their store for pre-sale access tomorrow (October 9). General ticket sale begins on Friday, October 11, and you can buy tickets here.
Lottery Winners’ UK headline tour dates are:
DECEMBER 2024
27 – Manchester – Academy 1
28 – Manchester – Academy 1
29 – Manchester – Academy 1
FEBRUARY 2025
20 – Bristol – O2 Academy
21 – Bournemouth – O2 Academy
23 – London – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
26 – Glasgow – St Luke’s
27 – Leeds – O2 Academy
28 – Liverpool – O2 Academy
MARCH 2025
01 – Birmingham – O2 Institute
Also appearing on the album will be Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, Rick Witter of Shed Seven, and Frank Turner, who’ll be making his third consecutive appearance on a Lottery Winners album.
The album follows 2023’s ‘ART (Anxiety Replacement Therapy)’, which hit Number One on the UK charts last May. Thom Rylance, the band’s singer, songwriter and guitarist said about producing the follow-up, “Getting a Number One record was an amazing feeling of euphoria, but the comedown was almost immediate. I had an existential crisis, thinking: ‘Is this the best thing we’re ever going to do? How do we follow this up?’ It was an exciting time, but a real anxiety crept in.”
Rylance told NME in January 2023, “I’ve always told my story in our songs. If you’re telling your own story, it’s never going to be boring,” and spoke about how much he wanted to work with McClure: “I love him, and he’s so funny that I’d love to just spend a day in the studio with him. I’ve started writing songs I feel would work well with Jon, so he’ll have to help out on them, because I’ve already started the work.”
He spoke about Turner, too, saying, “Having his seal of approval is wild. I absolutely adore Frank, as a singer, songwriter, for his attitude and his work ethic. He cares so much about people, making sure his crew were paid during lockdown and raising £250,000 for independent venues. I look up to him musically and ethically.”
