Sharleen Spiteri announces debut solo UK tour

Sharleen Spiteri announces her debut solo UK tour, taking place across the UK during January and February 2009. The tour announcement comes hot on the heels of Sharleen's debut solo album 'Melody' which went straight into the album charts at No 3, and has already been declared Gold for 100,000 sales.

The release of 'Melody' has seen Sharleen back in huge demand with performances on a range of massive UK TV shows from Later with Jools Holland to the Andrew Marr Show, via Graham Norton, The Charlotte Church Show and Transmission. Debut single 'All The Times I Cried' received a Neilson award for over 10,000 plays on UK Radio, including a coveted Radio 2 'A' Playlisting. Follow up single 'Stop I Don't Love You Anymore' is also climbing the Airplay Top 20.

Sharleen has also performed radio sessions for Radio 2 and Virgin as well as slotting in a triumphant main stage surprise performance at hometown festival T in the Park. She also starred at the recent BBC Proms in the Park, when she performed to over 30,000 people in London's Hyde Park. Press plaudits include the NME who called Melody 'a succulent record of Dusty Springfield-isms'.

The 2009 tour will see Sharleen perform tracks from Melody for the first time, along with a few Texas classics and, as always with Sharleen, some musical surprises - all delivered by one of the best and most distinctive voices in British music.

Tour dates in full:

JANUARY 2009
24th ABERDEEN Music Hall 08444 999 990
25th EDINBURGH Playhouse 08444 999 990
27th GLASGOW Academy 08444 999 990
29th NEWCASTLE City Hall 0191 261 2606
30th SHEFFIELD City Hall 0114 278 9789

FEBRUARY 2009
1st MANCHESTER Apollo 0844 4777 677
2nd HARROGATE International Centre 0845 130 8840
3rd IPSWICH Regent 01473 433 100
5th BRIGHTON Dome 01273 709 709
6th BOURNEMOUTH International Centre 0844 576 3000
8th BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333
9th NOTTINGHAM Royal Centre 0115 989 5555
10th LLANDUDNO Cymru Theatre 01492 872 000
12th PLYMOUTH Pavilions 0845 146 1460
13th BRISTOL Colston Hall 0117 922 3686
15th LONDON Hammersmith Apollo 08448 44 47 48

But tickets below.