THE KRIS BARRAS BAND Announces September Headline Tour  +Joanne Shaw Taylor October Support Tour  + GUN November support Tour

THE KRIS BARRAS BAND Announces September Headline Tour +Joanne Shaw Taylor October Support Tour + GUN November support Tour

24th August 2018 0 By Jon Deaux

The Kris Barras Band will be hitting the road in September for a UK headline tour. To celebrate this they have revealed the new video for ‘Stitch Me Up’ which captures moments of the band on the road throughout their incredible March tour, earlier this year. He has also announced an October UK Tour with Joanne Shaw Taylor as well as joining GUN for 3 dates in November.
 
Barras is having a whirlwind start to the year. He released the stunning new album ‘The Divine And Dirty’ in March, when he played a headline tour selling out shows across the country and supported Beth Hart on her April-May UK Tour. He joined Supersonic Blues Machine as singer/guitarist alongside the legendary Billy F. Gibbons (ZZ TOP)  for their July European Tour – including their debut headline show at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, as well as playing to the largest crowd on the second stage of the weekend at Ramblin’ Man Fair.
 
Talking about the tour he says; “I’m really excited to be heading out on my headline UK tour in September. We have really tried to reach some areas that we haven’t played in before, as well as returning to some of the cities that we did acoustically on the Beth Hart Tour. It will be great to go back to those with the full, electric set! We’ve finally got some Scottish dates in there too, which I’m really looking forward to.”
 
Kris Barras isn’t one to shy away from a challenge.  As a former Mixed Martial Artist, the Devon born singer and guitarist has fought in front of 8000 people, lived it up in Las Vegas, dealt with bankruptcy, suffered deep and personal loss, unleashed blues fury on stages across Europe and been voted one of the best 13 Blues Guitarists in the World Right Now by Music Radar.
 
He picked up the guitar and took up martial arts as a child. After playing in bands throughout his teens he became disillusioned. He had toured the east coast of the USA twice and recorded an album in Philadelphia, but struggled to get to the next level. By his early 20s, offers for fights were coming thick and fast. Music took a backseat as he travelled the world to compete in tournaments, winning 14 out of 17 fights and even settling to live in Las Vegas and Thailand. He retired from the cage in 2014, feeling like he had achieved everything that he was going to achieve. It had consumed his life for so long, making so many sacrifices that he felt that it was time to move on. Music, his real love was too strong for him to ignore.
 
Armed with this kind of passion and dedication, The Kris Barras Band are coming out swinging. Stand back – rock has a new hero.

Check out the videos for: Hail Mary,  Stitch Me Up’ , Lovers or Losers, Propane

The Divine & Dirty album: http://smarturl.it/vos9hf 
Full Tour Dates
Tickets available from www.krisbarrasband.com

07 Sep     Phoenix, Exeter
09 Sep     Ekletica Festival, Isle of Wight
11 Sep     Talking Heads, Southampton
12 Sep     Engine Room, Lincoln
13 Sep     Asylum 2, Birmingham
14 Sep     Patriot Crumlin, South Wales
15 Sep     Corporation, Sheffield
16 Sep     The Tunnels, Bristol
18 Sep     Trillians, Newcastle
19 Sep     Club Rock, Carlisle
20 Sep     King Tuts, Glasgow
21 Sep     The Church, Dundee
22 Sep     Night & Day, Manchester
23 Sep     Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool

24 Sep     100 Club, London
25 Sep     Brickmakers, Norwich
27 Sep     Flowerpot, Derby
29 Sep     The Kent Blues Collective Festival, Gillingham

01 Oct    Playhouse, Whitey Bay w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

02 Oct    Brudenell Social Club, Leeds w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

03 Oct    Apex, Bury St Edmunds w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

05 Oct    ARC, Stockton w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

06 Oct    Live Room, Chester w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

07 Oct    Robin, Bilston w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

09 Oct    O2 Academy, Oxford w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

12 Oct    Concorde, Brighton w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

13 Oct    Roadmenders, Northampton w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

14 Oct    Public Halls, Harpenden w/JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

01 Nov   Guild Hall, Preston w/GUN

02 Nov    Tivoli, Buckley w/GUN

03 Nov   Queens Hall, Nuneaton w/GUN

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