KT TUNSTALL ANNOUNCES 16 DATE UK TOUR FOR 2023.
7th STUDIO ALBUM ‘NUT’
OUT ON SEPTEMBER 9TH 2022 VIA EMI/BLUE ÉLAN
August 25th sees the announcement of a 16 date UK tour, following the release of forthcoming new album‘NUT’ by BRIT Award winning and Grammy®-nominated artist KT TUNSTALL. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am on Friday, 2nd September via https://www.kttunstall.com/ and www.gigsandtours.com.
‘NUT’ is the seventh studio album by multi-million selling artist KT TUNSTALL and the last in a trilogy of albums she began recording and releasing in 2016. Each part of the trilogy relates to the three existential parts of ourselves; KIN = Spirit, WAX = Body, and NUT = Mind.
‘NUT’ is available to pre-order now and will be released on September 9th via Blue Élan in North America, Australia and New Zealand and EMI in the UK, Ireland and ROW. Latest single “Private Eyes” is out now and follows “I Am The Pilot” and taster track “Canyons”, also taken from the new album.
Tunstall says, ”This will be my first full UK headline tour since the pandemic, and I’m so looking forward to playing a completely different show with a brand new line up of amazing musicians. Included in that line-up will be the brilliant Andy Burrows [of Razorlight] on drums (who played on ‘NUT’). He’ll also be opening the gigs with his own excellent show.”
FEBRUARY
Thursday 23rd – Buxton Opera House
Friday 24th – York Barbican
Sunday 26th – Manchester Albert Hall
Monday 27th – Birmingham Symphony Hall
Tuesday 28th– Bath The Forum
MARCH
Thursday 2nd – Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
Friday 3rd – Southampton O2 Guildhall
Saturday 4th – Cambridge Corn Exchange
Monday 6th – Cardiff St David’s Hall
Tuesday 7th – London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Thursday 9th – Guilford G Live
Friday 10th – Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Saturday 11th – Sage Gateshead
Tuesday 14th – Aberdeen Music Hall
Wednesday 15th – Edinburgh Usher Hall
Friday 17th – Glasgow SEC Armadillo
‘NUT’ is the culmination of a seven-year project,” Tunstall says. “It’s the final part of a trilogy of records that has spanned probably the most extreme and profound period of change in my life. The personal arc of these three records has been pretty extraordinary for me.”
KT explains the inspiration behind the album’s name: “Growing up in Scotland, if someone was losing their temper you would say, ‘Dinny lose yer Nut!’ I love that the word also means a seed. The album artwork is all about the brain being a garden; you reap what you sow, you need to keep the weeds at bay, and there is an almost supernatural beauty to when things blossom.”
KT Tunstall has never been one for creative stasis. The Grammy®-nominated Scottish Musician burst onto the music scene with her 2004 multi-platinum debut, Eye to the Telescope, which spawned the global hits “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See.” These songs established Tunstall as a captivating and dynamic performer, as well as a Songwriter with a singular knack for balancing introspective folk and propulsive rock.
“There are two immediate, recognisable pillars of my style,” she says. “I have this troubadour, acoustic guitar-driven emotional side. Then there’s definitely an electrified rock side of my work with rawness and teeth.”
After selling everything she owned and moving to California in 2015, she took a break before spending the next seven years on the album trilogy. She describes the first record, KIN, as “an absolute Phoenix out of the ashes,” Tunstall says. “It was the result of a profound personal shift, and finding my feet again after facing some really hard truths.” Among other things, Tunstall’s father died—an event that made her realise she was unhappy in her marriage and led to divorce. More challenges awaited her upon the release of 2018’s WAX. “Halfway through the tour for WAX, I completely lost my hearing in my left ear overnight, which never returned,” she says. “I lost an extremely important physical part of my body whilst touring a record all about the body.”
Tunstall was understandably wary about what might happen while making her mind record ‘NUT’. And of course, it came in the form of a global pandemic. However, now that the trilogy is complete, she has the perspective to appreciate the solace and healing she experienced as the songs unfolded. “I did not foresee how visceral an experience it would be making this music about myself. It became the audio accompaniment to a deeply transformative period of my life. It’s the soundtrack to me creating a new version of myself.”
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago and married my childhood sweetheart and life is good.
