Eric Gales Announces June 2022 UK Tour With Special Guest Dom Martin
The Gig Cartel by arrangement with Intrepid Artists present
ADDS SIX NEW JUNE DATES
FOLLOWING MARCH/APRIL 2022 UK TOUR
JUNE CONCERT TICKETS ON SALE AT 10AM
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17 VIA THEGIGCARTEL.COM
SPECIAL GUESTS
DANNY BRYANT (MARCH/APRIL 2022)
DOM MARTIN (JUNE 2022)
NEW ALBUM "CROWN" OUT NOW
"One of the best, if not the best guitar player in the world." - Joe Bonamassa
"He is absolutely incredible." - Carlos Santana
"How Eric Gales isn’t the hugest name in rock guitar is a total mystery." - Dave Navarro
"This guy could be the best player on Earth." - Mark Tremonti
Following his upcoming March and April 2022 UK tour, critically acclaimed blues rock guitarist Eric Gales returns to the UK to perform six more concerts in June. Dates include Leamington Assembly (June 2), Chester Live Rooms (June 4), York Crescent (June 5), Newcastle Cluny (June 6), Bury Met Theatre (June 7) and Basingstoke, The Haymarket (June 8).
All tickets are priced £25 and will go on sale at 10am on Thursday February 17 at www.thegigcartel.com.
Special guest on the June tour run is Irish blues guitarist and singer songwriter Dom Martin, who’s new album, A Savage Life, will be released April 8th. Dom is nominated for five awards at the UK Blues Awards including “Blues Band of the Year,” “Blues Album of the Year” and “Blues Vocalist of the Year.”
Special guest on all March and April shows is British blues rock guitarist Danny Bryant. Hailed as a national blues treasure,” Bryant recently released his 12th album The Rage To Survive to critical acclaim.
Gales will perform songs from his recently released studio album Crown produced by and featuring Joe Bonamassa, plus tracks from his extensive back catalogue.
Eric Gales takes his rightful place at the head of the blues-rock table as he announces Crown, his career-defining new album. On the new album, Eric shares his struggles with substance abuse, his hopes about a new era of sobriety and unbridled creativity, and his personal reflections on racism. Five years sober, creatively rejuvenated, and sagely insightful, the songs on Crown are delivered with clarity and feature Eric's personal experiences and hope for positive change. This is Eric at his most boldly vulnerable, uncompromisingly political, and unflinchingly confident.
The first single from the album, I Want My Crown, opens with a fanfare of elegant lead guitar virtuosity before slipping into a funky groove. Here, with playful bravado, Eric sings about finally getting his due while also admitting his self-sabotaging past. Clean and focused with guitar in hand, he eyes the crown and goes for it, battling powerhouse blues warrior Joe Bonamassa in a Rocky-like epic fight. Triumphant horns spur on the excitement as the pair unleash barrages of jaw-dropping blues-shred with each player’s passages feeling like the final fury of a July 4th fireworks explosion.
Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. Over 30 years and 18 albums, his passion for the music and his boundless desire to keep it vital has never waned, even when his own light dimmed due to his substance struggles. Since 1991, the Memphis-born guitarist has blazed a path reinvigorating the blues with a virtuosity and rock swagger that has him heralded as the second coming of Jimi Hendrix. He was a child prodigy with bottomless talent and fierce determination. When he was 16 years-old released his debut, The Eric Gales Band, on Elektra Records.
He’s earned high praise by guitarists’ guitarist and household name axe men such as Joe Bonamassa, Carlos Santana, Dave Navarro, and Mark Tremonti. In addition, he has held his own with the greatest guitarists in the world, including Carlos Santana at Woodstock 1994, Zakk Wylde, Eric Johnson, and a posse of others as a featured guest touring with the Experience Hendrix Tour.
Gales’ 2019 album The Bookends was written over a nine-month period, the album was recorded at Recorded at Studio Delux, Van Nuys, California, The Doghouse, Woodland Hills, California, Blakeslee Recording, North Hollywood. Three-time Grammy-nominated and Emmy Award winning vocalist B. Slade appears on two songs, “Something’s Gotta Give” and bonus track “Pedal to the Metal.”
His 2017 album, Middle of the Road, reached #1 on the iTunes Blues chart and #4 on the Billboard Blues chart. It made Classic Rock Magazine and Total Guitar albums of the year with the latter saying it was “the album that should define his career.” Classic Rock said, “the notes drip from Gales’ fretboard like warm honey”, The Guitar Magazine exclaimed it’s the “the injection of danger and unpredictability that the blues-rock scene desperately needs”, Blues Matters professed “truly the man is blessed”, whilst Powerplay Magazine said, “the more you listen to it the more the brilliance of Eric Gales becomes apparent.”
Gales’ story is an incredible one, he was a child prodigy and released his debut album The Eric Gales Band in 1991 as a 16-year-old on Elektra Records. It was the first of 10 albums on a major label through a blistering career. He has released 16 studio albums in total ahead of Crown and a host of other collaborations.
He has battled drink and drug issues and spent time in jail in 2009 for possession of drugs and a weapon. Gales proudly tells his story every night before every show, now over two years sober he is creating the most breath-taking music he has ever made. Talking about his approach to song writing in this time he reflects. “I guess the songs would answer the question more or less, I definitely don’t have anything clouding my view and it’s definitely a much purer place where its coming from.”
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MARCH/APRIL 2022 UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUEST DANNY BRYANT
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Brighton, Concorde 2
Wednesday 23rd March 2022
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286A Madeira Dr, Brighton BN2 1EN
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Dover, The Booking Hall
Thursday 24th March 2022
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Old Harbour Station, Elizabeth St, Dover, CT17 9FE
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London, O2 Academy Islington
Friday 25th March 2022
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16 Parkfield St, The Angel, London N1 0PS
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Southampton, 1865
Saturday 26th March 2022
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Brunswick Square, Southampton SO14 3AR
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Bristol, Fleece
Sunday 27th March 2022
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12 St Thomas St, Bristol BS1 6JJ
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Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Tuesday 29th March 2022
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Masonic Pl, Goldsmith St, Nottingham, NG1 5LB
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Bilston, The Robin
Wednesday 30th March 2022
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20 - 28 Mount Pleasant, Bilston
Wolverhampton, WV14 7LJ
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Manchester, Academy
Thursday 31st March 2022
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Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
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Glasgow, Òran Mór
Friday 1st April 2022
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Top of, Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX
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Whitley Bay, Playhouse
Saturday 2nd April 2022
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Marine Ave, Whitley Bay NE26 1LZ
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Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Sunday 3rd April 2022
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33 Queen's Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY
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JUNE 2022 UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUEST DOM MARTIN
TICKETS VIA THEGIGCARTEL.COM
Leamington, Assembly
Thursday 2nd June 2022
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Spencer Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3NF
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Chester, Live Rooms
Saturday 4th June 2022
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1 Station Road, Chester, CH1 3DR
www.theliverooms.com
York, The Crescent
Sunday 5th June 2022
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8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
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Newcastle, The Cluny
Monday 6th June 2022
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34 Lime Street, Ouseburn,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 2PQ
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Bury, Met Theatre
Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Market Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, BL9 0BW
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Basingstoke, The Haymarket
Wednesday 8th June 2022
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Wote Street, Basingstoke, RG21 7NW
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