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SHED Seven will embark on their Maximum Hits and Maximum Highs tour later this year and to coincide with the dates the band are releasing a new version of Chasing Rainbows which they recorded as part of a recent anniversary acoustic session.
The track is available here for free and marks 15 years since the single’s release.
Also to celebrate the release and due to popular demand, a second hometown show at York Barbican has been added for Wednesday 21st December. This will be the last date added to the tour.
Horns featured heavily on the platinum-selling “A Maximum High” and for the first time ever on a live tour live the band will be reproducing that sound using a three-piece brass section.
Following the huge success of their last two sell-out tours, Shed Seven are returning to the road to play a selection of their hit singles whilst also celebrating the 15th anniversary of their platinum selling album “A Maximum High” by revisiting several of the tracks from that album. A Maximum High spawned four of the record 5 top 40 singles the band notched up in 1996, which included Going for Gold and Getting Better, and saw them break into the Britpop big league. The album went top 10 in the UK and the band toured it around the world.
Lead singer Rick Witter said: “It’s fantastic to be getting back on the road again. I can’t believe 15 years have passed since A Maximum High and it will be good to revisit one or two songs that have been untouched for many years.
"We’ve got a few tricks up our sleeve for this tour; we want to be doing something a bit different each time we go out. We’ll also be playing the hits you’d expect to hear, it wouldn’t be a Shed gig without Chasing Rainbows would it?”
The dates are as follows:
MAXIMUM HITS & MAXIMUM HIGHS TOUR
NOVEMBER 2011
Sat 26 Bournemouth Academy 0844 477 2000
Sun 27 Bristol 02 Academy 0844 477 2000
Tue 29 Aberdeen Music Hall 0844 4999 990
DECEMBER 2011
Thu 1 Edinburgh Picture House 0844 4999 990
Friday 02 Glasgow Barrowland 0844 4999 990
Saturday 03 Newcastle O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
Monday 05 Liverpool O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
Tuesday 06 Cambridge Junction 01223 511 511
Thursday 08 Sheffield O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
Friday 09 Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111
Saturday 10 Manchester Academy 0161 832 1111
Sunday 11 Nottingham Rock City 0845 413 4444
Tuesday 13 Leamington Spa Assembly 0844 811 0051
Weds 14 Norwich UEA 01603 508 050
Friday 16 Birmingham O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
Sat 17 London O2 Shepherds Bush 0844 477 2000
Sun 18 London O2 Shepherds Bush 0844 477 2000
Tues 20 Leeds O2 Academy 0844 477 2000
Weds 21 York Barbican 0844 854 2757
Thurs 22 York Barbican 0844 854 2757
Tickets for the second York show are on sale Friday 30th September 2011 @ 9am
TICKETS for all other shows ON SALE Now
Buy online: GIGSANDTOURS.COM 24hr cc hotline: 0844 811 0051
To download special acoustic cover of ‘Chasing Rainbows’ http://soundcloud.com/gigsandtours/chasing-rainbows-acoustic-mix
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