Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott announce UK tour with special guest Billy Bragg

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25 Aug 2022, 08:58

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Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott have announced an Autumn UK tour playing some of their biggest shows they have ever done as a duo.

Not only that, but the pair will be joined by very special guest, Billy Bragg, for all 12 shows later this year.

The tour kicks off in Swansea on 26th November and will move across the country to venues in Blackpool, Llandudno, Bridlington, Glasgow, Stockton, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester before finishing up in London on 17th December.

Tickets for the show cost around £30 and go on sale at 9:30am on Thursday 1st September here.

The tour is to promote Heaton and Abbott’s new album N.K-Pop set to be released on 7th October and the pair have already released two singles from the record, Still and Too Much For One (Not Enough For Two).

This comes after the success of their previous album, Manchester Calling, which went straight to number one on its release in March 2020.

Most people will probably remember Heaton for being the frontman of early 80s band The Housemartins, which also gave rise to Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook.

Following that, he formed The Beautiful South in 1988, where he met Abbott who joined as singer in 1994. The band went on to release 10 albums before Heaton left in 2001 to pursue a solo career

The pair continued to work together following this and in 2011 Heaton wrote a musical called The 8th which Jacqui sang one of the parts for.

Over his solo career, Heaton also released multiple records and in 2019 dropped a compilation of his biggest hits titled The Last King Of Pop.