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Eric Gales announces June 2022 UK Tour with special guest Dom Martin

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February 15, 2022
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Eric Gales UK Tour 2022 posterFollowing his upcoming March and April 2022 UK tour, critically acclaimed blues rock guitarist Eric Gales returns to the UK to perform six more concerts in June. Dates include Leamington Assembly (June 2), Chester Live Rooms (June 4), York Crescent (June 5), Newcastle Cluny (June 6), Bury Met Theatre (June 7) and Basingstoke, The Haymarket (June 8).

Tickets priced £25, go on sale at 10am on Thursday February 17th, here.

Special guest on the June tour run is Irish blues guitarist and singer songwriter Dom Martin, who’s new album, “A Savage Life”, will be released April 8th, 2022. Dom is nominated for five awards at the UK Blues Awards including “Blues Band of the Year”, “Blues Album of the Year” and “Blues Vocalist of the Year”.

Special guest on all March and April shows is British blues rock guitarist Danny Bryant. Hailed as a national blues treasure”, Bryant recently released his 12th album The Rage To Survive to critical acclaim.

Gales will perform songs from his recently released studio album “Crown” produced by and featuring Joe Bonamassa, plus tracks from his extensive back catalogue.

Eric Gales takes his rightful place at the head of the blues-rock table as he announces “Crown”, his career-defining new album. The hotly tipped new studio album finds Eric opening up like never before, sharing his struggles with substance abuse, his hopes about a new era of sobriety and unbridled creativity, and his personal reflections on racism.

Five years sober, creatively rejuvenated, and sagely insightful, the songs on “Crown” are delivered with clarity and feature Eric’s personal experiences and hope for positive change. This is Eric at his most boldly vulnerable, uncompromisingly political, and unflinchingly confident.

The first single off the album, the slinky “I Want My Crown”, opens with a fanfare of elegant lead guitar virtuosity before slipping into a funky groove. Here, with playful bravado, Eric sings about finally getting his due while also admitting his self-sabotaging past.

Clean and focused with guitar in hand, he eyes the crown and goes for it, battling powerhouse blues warrior Joe Bonamassa in a Rocky-like epic fight. Triumphant horns spur on the excitement as the pair unleash barrages of jaw-dropping blues-shred with each player’s passages feeling like the final fury of a July 4th fireworks explosion.

UK Tour Dates 2022:
Wednesday 23 March 2022 – Brighton, Concorde 2
Thursday 24 March 2022 – Dover, The Booking Hall
Friday 25 March 2022 – London, O2 Academy Islington
Saturday 26 March 2022 – Southampton, 1865
Sunday 27 March 2022 – Bristol, Fleece
Tuesday 29 March 2022 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
Wednesday 30 March 2022 – Bilston, The Robin
Thursday 31 March 2022 – Manchester, Academy
Friday 1 April 2022 – Glasgow, Oran Mor
Saturday 2 April 2022 – Whitley Bay, Playhouse
Sunday 3 April 2022 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Thursday 2 June 2022 – Leamington, Assembly
Saturday 4 June 2022 – Chester, Live Rooms
Sunday 5 June 2022 – York, The Crescent
Monday 6 June 2022 – Newcastle, The Cluny
Tuesday 7 June 2022 – Bury, Met Theatre
Wednesday 8 June 2022 – Basingstoke, The Haymarket

Eric Gales is a blues firebrand. Over 30 years and 18 albums, his passion for the music and his boundless desire to keep it vital has never waned, even when his own light dimmed due to his substance struggles. Since 1991, the Memphis-born guitarist has blazed a path reinvigorating the blues with a virtuosity and rock swagger that has him heralded as the second coming of Jimi Hendrix. He was a child prodigy with bottomless talent and fierce determination. When he was 16 years-old released his debut, “The Eric Gales Band”, on Elektra Records.

He’s earned high praise by guitarists’ guitarist and household name axe men such as Joe Bonamassa, Carlos Santana, Dave Navarro, and Mark Tremonti. In addition, he has held his own with the greatest guitarists in the world, including Carlos Santana at Woodstock 1994, Zakk Wylde, Eric Johnson, and a posse of others as a featured guest touring with the Experience Hendrix Tour.

Gales’ 2019 album The Bookends” was written over a nine-month period, the album was recorded at Recorded at Studio Delux, Van Nuys, California, The Doghouse, Woodland Hills, California, Blakeslee Recording, North Hollywood. Three-time Grammy-nominated and Emmy Award winning vocalist B. Slade appears on two songs, “Something’s Gotta Give” and bonus track “Pedal to the Metal.”

His 2017 album, “Middle of the Road”, reached #1 on the iTunes Blues chart and #4 on the Billboard Blues chart. It made Classic Rock Magazine and Total Guitar albums of the year with the latter saying it was “the album that should define his career.” Classic Rock said, “the notes drip from Gales’ fretboard like warm honey,” Guitar Magazine exclaimed it’s the “the injection of danger and unpredictability that the blues-rock scene desperately needs”, Blues Matters professed “truly the man is blessed”, whilst Powerplay said, “the more you listen to it the more the brilliance of Eric Gales becomes apparent.”

Gales’ story is an incredible one, he was a child prodigy and released his debut album “The Eric Gales Band” in 1991 as a 16-year-old on Elektra Records. It was the first of 10 albums on a major label through a blistering career. He has released 16 studio albums in total ahead of Crown and a host of other collaborations.

He has battled drink and drug issues and spent time in jail in 2009 for possession of drugs and a weapon. Gales proudly tells his story every night before every show, now over two years sober he is creating the most breath-taking music he has ever made. Talking about his approach to song writing in this time he reflects. “I guess the songs would answer the question more or less, I definitely don’t have anything clouding my view and it’s definitely a much purer place where its coming from”.

Weblinks:
www.ericgalesband.com
www.facebook.com/EricGales

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