The Specials (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
The Specials will support the release of a new studio album with an extensive tour of the UK next spring.
After the release of Encore on February 1st 2019, the band will launch the tour in Bournemouth on April 15th, and remain from there on the road for the next month, finally concluding at the Brixton Academy in London on May 16th.
Produced by remaining members Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter, Encore will be the first time Hall has joined the band on brand new material since the early eighties.
Tour dates:
April
15 – Bournemouth, O2 Academy
16 – Portsmouth, Guildhall
17 – Brighton, Dome
19 – Plymouth, Pavilions
20 – Exeter, University Great Hall
21 – Cardiff, University Great Hall
23 – Blackburn, King Georges Hall
24 – Leicester, De Montfort Hall
26 – Birmingham, O2 Academy
27 – Liverpool, Eventim Olympia
28 – Manchester, Academy
30 – Leeds, O2 Academy
May
1 – Carlisle, Sands Centre
2 – Glasgow, Barrowlands
4 – Newcastle, O2 Academy
5 – Middlesbrough, Town Hall
6 – Scarborough, Spa
8 – Scunthorpe, Baths Hall
9 – York, Barbican
10 – Sheffield, O2 Academy
12 – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
13 – Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
14 – Margate, Winter Gardens
16 – London, Brixton O2 Academy