Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have announced they will tour UK arenas next year, with special guests Super Furry Animals.
The tour opens in Glasgow before visiting Aberdeen, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham and Bournemouth*. 2015 has seen Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds complete a worldwide tour that included a sellout Arena Tour of the UK in March, along with headlining major summer Festivals including T in the Park and Latitude, all to huge critical acclaim.
New single 'The Dying Of The Light' is taken from the album 'Chasing Yesterday' and released on December 11th. To celebrate the release of this fifth single off the award winning album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play a one off show at London's Royal Albert Hall the day before, on December 10th. (on sale details to follow shortly) It includes B side 'The Girl With X-Ray Eyes (Demo)' and will be available digitally and on 7" – with a limited edition coloured vinyl exclusively available from www.noelgallagher.com. The track has already been streamed over 2.09 million times on Spotify.
'Chasing Yesterday' went straight to Number One in the Official UK Album Chart after its March 2nd release – and remains the highest selling album in its first week on sale in 2015.
Earlier today at Grosvenor House Hotel, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds were honoured with the reader voted Q Award for Best Album … adding to Noel's long list of accolades including the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection in 2013, the NME Godlike Genius Award in 2012 and the Q Icon Award.
Tickets for the arena tour go on sale on October 23rd at 9am and are available from www.noelgallagher.com
The dates are as follows:
21/04/16 Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
24/04/16 Aberdeen, GE AECC
25/04/16 Liverpool, Echo Arena
27/04/16 Leeds, First Direct Arena
29/04/16 Birmingham, Genting Arena
30/04/16 Bournemouth, International Centre
*Special Guests at Bournemouth TBA
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10/12/15 London, Royal Albert Hall