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Young Fathers announce 2023 UK tour dates

The Mercury Prize nominees hit the road this autumn

Young Fathers have announced a run of UK tour dates for 2023 – find all the details below.

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The Scottish trio are due to hit the road this autumn for headline gigs in support of their Mercury Prize-shortlisted fourth album, ‘Heavy Heavy’ , which was released back in February.

Kicking off at The Dome in Brighton on October 20, the upcoming tour will also include a show at the Eventim Apollo in London (October 21), a double billing at Glasgow’s legendary Barrowland Ballroom (23, 24), a stop-off at the O2 Institute in Birmingham (27) and a date at Manchester Academy (28).

Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday (August 4) – you’ll be able to purchase yours here . Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale from the same time tomorrow (August 2).

Check out the official tour poster in the announcement tweet below.

*Just Announced* We're playing a handful of UK headline shows in October. Tickets on sale 10am this coming Friday! pic.twitter.com/EFo7w4j3Td — Young Fathers (@Youngfathers) August 1, 2023

This summer has already seen Young Fathers make appearances at festivals such as Glastonbury , Latitude and Best Kept Secret. The band’s upcoming dates include slots at Green Man Festival , Connect Festival and Electric Picnic .

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In June, the trio opened for Depeche Mode at their huge Twickenham Stadium concert . Speaking to NME recently , Young Fathers’ Graham G Hastings described that show as “a different beast” compared to what they’re used to.

“It took us back to how we always operated before when we were always playing to a wee crowd,” he added. “How do you make an impact in 30 minutes with people who don’t know you?”

Young Fathers also claimed to have a shared “telepathy”. Kayus Bankole told NME : “You hear the music, but it actually has life when you see it live.

“As much as we can see through the recording process, being together, having this bond and telepathic communication where we don’t even have to speak in the studio – that translates on stage.”

Additionally, the group revealed that they have “an abundance of ideas” for their next studio album. Check out the video in full above.

The conversation took place last week at the launch of the 2023 Mercury Prize, where ‘Heavy Heavy’ was shortlisted alongside records by the likes of Arctic Monkeys, J Hus, Jessie Ware, Jockstrap, RAYE and Ezra Collective .

The winner of the Mercury Prize will be announced at a live ceremony at London’s Eventim Apollo on September 7.

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Young Fathers – Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings – today announce news of a brand-new UK tour taking in dates across Brighton, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and their largest headline show to date, London’s Eventim Apollo. The freshly announced dates follow the news of their recently announced North American Tour and a summer full of high-profile festival performances including Latitude, Somerset House, Bluedot and Glastonbury.

Known for their electrifying performances, their shows are a blur of ritualistic energy, marking them as one of the most must-see acts operating today. Fans can witness the spectacle by buying tickets from the presale launch on August 2nd and on general sale on Friday, August 4th.

Full dates and ticket information can be found here: https://www.young-fathers.com/tour

Young Fathers started their year with the release of their fourth album ‘Heavy Heavy’ which was released on February 3rd via Ninja Tune. Last week It was announced that the album had been shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW, their second nomination after winning the prize itself in 2014 for their debut album ‘Dead’. Already lauded with widespread acclaim, the news of the album’s nomination and following tour signals the lasting impact Young Fathers have had on the musical landscape in 2023.

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Young Fathers announce new UK live dates

Young Fathers announce news of a brand new UK tour spanning across Brighton, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and their largest headline show to date, London’s Eventim Apollo.

The freshly announced dates arrives after a summer full of high profile festival performances, including their rapturous gig at Glastonbury. 

Young Fathers started their year with the release of their fourth album ‘Heavy Heavy’. Already lauded with widespread acclaim, it was announced last week that the record had been shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize. 

Fans can witness the spectacle of their electrifying live shows by buying tickets from the presale launch on August 2nd and on general sale on Friday August 4th. Full dates and ticket information can be found here: https://www.young-fathers.com/tour

Buy tickets for the band's current tour here . 

UK TOUR DATES:

• 20 OCT 2023 THE DOME BRIGHTON - UK
• 21 OCT 2023 EVENTIM APOLLO LONDON - UK
• 23 OCT 2023 BARROWLAND BALLROOM GLASGOW - UK
• 24 OCT 2023 BARROWLAND BALLROOM GLASGOW - UK
• 27 OCT 2023 O2 INSTITUTE BIRMINGHAM - UK
• 28 OCT 2023 ACADEMY MANCHESTER - UK

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Young Fathers announce new UK tour

Young Fathers – Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings – today announce news of a brand-new UK tour taking in dates across Brighton, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and their largest headline show to date, London’s Eventim Apollo. The freshly announced dates follow the news of their recently announced North American Tour and a summer full of high-profile festival performances including Latitude, Somerset House, Bluedot and Glastonbury.

Known for their electrifying performances, their shows are a blur of ritualistic energy, marking them as one of the most must-see acts operating today. Fans can witness the spectacle by buying tickets from the presale launch on August 2nd and on general sale on Friday, August 4th.

Full dates and ticket information can be found here: https://www.young-fathers.com/tour

Young Fathers started their year with the release of their fourth album ‘Heavy Heavy’ which was released on February 3rd via Ninja Tune. Last week It was announced that the album had been shortlisted for the 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW, their second nomination after winning the prize itself in 2014 for their debut album ‘Dead’. Already lauded with widespread acclaim, the news of the album’s nomination and following tour signals the lasting impact Young Fathers have had on the musical landscape in 2023.

Young Fathers EU tour dates:

• 11 Aug 2023: Boomtown Fair – UK
• 13 Aug 2023: Ypsigrock Sicily – Italy
• 18 Aug 2023: La Route Du Rock Saint-Malo – France
• 20 Aug 2023: Green Man Festival Crickhowell – UK
• 26 Aug 2023: Connect Festival Edinburgh – UK
• 27 Aug 2023: Rock En Seine Festival Paris – France
• 01 Sep 2023: Electric Picnic Co. Laois – Ireland
• 02 Sep 2023: Meo Kalorama Lisbon – Portugal
• 20 Oct 2023: The Dome Brighton – UK
• 21 Oct 2023: Eventim Apollo London – UK
• 23 Oct 2023: Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow – UK
• 24 Oct 2023: Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow – UK
• 27 Oct 2023: O2 Institute Birmingham – UK
• 28 Oct 2023: Academy Manchester – UK

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Recently nominated for the mercury prize for their album heavy heavy, the unstoppable young fathers announce a run of october dates including two nights at the barrowlands.

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Their recorded music can be dark, dense and the lyrics ambiguous, when you watch them live that kinetic energy is unmistakable and unforgettable. Apparent, visceral and highly addictive. Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings met as kids and set their bodies against the tide. From the beginning, they were obstinately not going to do what was expected. Under disparate influences that ranged from Enya to Suicide, they began to create the unique sound of their early albums, Tape One, Tape Two, the Mercury Award-winning DEAD, to arrive in the compelling world of White Men Are Black Men Too and their second SAY Award winner, Cocoa Sugar, with a more refined, disjointed sound. Their forthcoming album is entitled, Heavy Heavy. The title could be a mood, or it could describe the smoothed granite of bass that supports the sound. Or perhaps it’s a nod to the natural progression from boys to grown men and the inevitable toll of living, a joyous burden, relationships, family, the natural momentum of a group that has been around long enough to witness massive changes. This new album nails together a collage of influences, ideas, ages and scenes, all bound together with unrestrained energy, passion and soul. And it seems, right now, the most radical thing to do is to have some Soul. No dress code required. Dancing, not moshing. Hips jerking, feet slipping, brain firing in Catherine Wheel sparks of joy and empathy. Underground but never dark. Still young, after some years, even as the heavy, heavy weight of the world seems to grow day by day.

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Young Fathers to headline and curate 15k-cap gig

The Stirling City Park event will see the Edinburgh trio play their biggest headline show in Scotland to date

By Lisa Henderson on 26 Mar 2024

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Edinburgh hip-hop group Young Fathers are set to headline and curate a huge all-day concert in Scotland.

The 15,000-capacity event will take place on 29 June at Stirling City Park, which is located between Glasgow and Edinburgh and within an hour’s travel time for 50% of Scotland’s population.

The summer show will see the Mercury Prize winners – who have also won the Scottish Album of the Year Award three times – play their biggest headline show in Scotland to date.

DF Concerts is set to promote the event, having already announced that its Summer Sessions concert series would take place in Stirling to coincide with the city’s 900th anniversary.

The 15,000-capacity event will take place on 29 June at Stirling City Park

Shows by Tom Jones, Shania Twait, James Arthur and Busted have been confirmed for City Park between 27 June and 2 July. The Summer Sessions will also take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Tickets for the Young Fathers all-dayer will go on sale this Wednesday (27 March), with additional acts to be announced.

Ahead of the 29 June concert, the trio will head to the US for a string of shows in April.

An official announcement from DF Concerts said: “Since the release of their now-legendary mixtapes, Tape One in 2011 and Tape Two in 2013, the latter of which gave Young Fathers their first of three Scottish Album of the Year gongs, the Edinburgh-based band have honed their categorically evasive hybrid sound.

“Young Fathers aren’t like any other live band. Blessed by multiple voices, an eye-popping approach to performance and a four-album-and-two-mixtape-deep catalogue, the radical Afro-Scottish hip-hop group are true game-changers, tearing up the rulebook for what live music can be. Teeming with ideas, with influences from every corner of the musical – and actual – world, the most exciting thing is wondering what Young Fathers will do next on stage.”

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Young Fathers have just announced their biggest Scottish headline show to date!

By Craig McLean

25 March 2024

Young Fathers, Royal Albert Hall, London ***** [five stars] – Craig McLean  

At London’s Royal Albert Hall it’s Friday night, and the fifth show, of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual week-long series of gigs. Over consecutive evenings, many of organiser Roger Daltrey’s old pals are rocking up to rock out to raise funds and awareness for the charity.  

Young Fathers stride onto the stage, the core Edinburgh trio of Kayus Bankole, Graham “G” Hastings and Alloysious Massaquoi flanked by a backing singer, instrument-hopping guitarist and keyboard player, free-standing drummer swinging at his skins like a jackhammer, and the multi-lunged wonder of Manchester’s all-female NIA community choir.  

Even before they’ve begun, then, Young Fathers are presenting something truly special onstage.  

For the next 70 minutes, the Mercury Prize-winning band don’t let up, a feast for eyes, ears, brain and feet. By only the third song they have the mostly seated RAH entirely up and dancing, with the rushing, powerful Get Up bringing the revolutionary party. On Wow, hammering electronic beats are amplified by Massaquoi beating at a snare-drum he pulls on and offstage throughout the set.  

The percussive, infectious rhythms keep coming. Rain Or Shine throbs with an insistent, Motorik synth pound and air-raid-siren guitar, the choir rising above the music with rolling waves of vocal power. For Old Rock n Roll all four singers cluster centre-stage, flailing limbs and firing voices in multiple thrilling generations. On I Heard, Massaquoi’s soulful vocals float over churchy organ and Eighties dance beats.  

All of which is to say: Young Fathers aren’t like any other live band. Blessed by multiple voices, an eye-popping approach to performance and a four-album-and-two-mixtape-deep catalogue, the radical Afro-Scottish hip-hop group are true game-changers, tearing up the rulebook for what live music can be.  

Only David Byrne’s acclaimed American Utopia tour, where the musicians roamed free and untethered across the stage, comes close to a show that is as sensual as it’s cerebral, intense as it’s loose, artful as it’s sweaty.  

By the time we get to the closing run of tracks, the stage is a surging mass of arms and legs. Geronimo, glorious on last year’s acclaimed Heavy, Heavy album, grows wings courtesy of an exultant, beatific contribution from the choir. Shameis a euphoric, bouncing singalong. I Saw is multi-genre jamboree, the black-clad NIA women raising the RAH’s distant, 41-metre high roof with their massed vocals, their specialism in soul, R&B, blues and gospel the perfect amplification for this revelational band and their revolutionary show.  

Teeming with ideas, with influences from every corner of the musical – and actual – world, the most exciting thing is wondering what Young Fathers will do next on stage.  

Young Fathers have just announced their biggest Scottish headline show to date as part of an exciting day festival curated by themselves on Saturday 29th June 2024 at Stirling City Park with a jam-packed supporting lineup of special guests still to be announced.  

Tickets go on sale from  9am  on  Wednesday 27 th  March , or you can access the  Gigs in Scotland presale  from  9am  on  Tuesday 26 th  March  by logging in to your Gigs in Scotland account.  

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