Skindred Announce ‘Smile (Once more)’ UK Tour

Skindred are set to make us all ‘Smile (Once more)’ after asserting a UK headline tour for autumn this 12 months.

Benji Webbe and co. are using excessive from their current touring efforts, together with their date at London’s OVO Area Wembley present, in help of their ‘Smile’ album, which peaked at Quantity 2 within the charts.

And now they’ve introduced they’ll be hitting the street as soon as extra this 12 months, with a string of reveals throughout the UK all through October and early November.

The tour will start in Hull earlier than dates that embody Glasgow, Liverpool, Leicester and extra, wrapping-up with an evening in Oxford on November 02.

These will come after an enormous summer time of festivals, with the Welsh ragga metallers set to play Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, Glastonbury’s Avalon Stage and Lifeless Pop Competition in Japan.

Talking in regards to the forthcoming tour, Benji Webbe has mentioned together with his typical exuberance: 

“Myself and my Brothers in Skindred are so excited to be heading again out on the street within the UK. 

“We’ve got had nothing however wonderful vibes since we dropped our album Smile and because of the quantity of messages we’ve obtained we head again out to a few of our favorite hotspots within the UK to mash it up once more in the way in which solely Skindred can. 

“This heavy metallic punk rock reggae sound system is about to rock ya all much more. You would possibly of heard the songs however I swear our stay present is a few subsequent stage vitality ting brov, so seize your tickets & your helicopter propels & become involved on this Dred extravaganza. 

“To the older Dredites & the brand new let’s convey the magic like solely Skindred do. The Unity Sound rings true. So you recognize what to do.”

See the total listing of ‘Smile (Once more)’ tour dates under – and go to the band’s web site for extra info and to purchase tickets. 

October

18^th – Hull, Hull College

19^th – Glasgow, Barrowland

20^th – Sunderland, Fireplace Station

24^th – Holmfirth, Picturedrome

25^th – Liverpool, Olympia

26^th – Leicester, O2 Academy

31^st – Portsmouth, Guildhall

November

1^st – Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion

2^nd – Oxford, O2 Academy

Festivals

June

7^th – Rock am Ring, Germany

9^th – Rock im Park, Germany

21^st – Pinkpop, Netherlands

22^nd – Bristol Sounds, Bristol

28^th – Glastonbury Competition, Glastonbury

30^th – Lifeless Pop Competition, Japan

July

27^th – Steelhouse Competition, Abertillery

In Rock Sound’s evaluation of Skindred’s Wembley present in March, we wrote:

“It hasn’t at all times been this plain-sailing, as Skindred’s larger-than-life frontman Benji Webbe would remind us. 

““When it’s powerful you simply hold fucking going,” he declared, donning a full-body leather-based jacket and spiked sun shades. “Properly, we stayed within the combat and that’s why we’re in fucking Wembley tonight.””

“This comment could be the evening’s epitaph, as we revelled within the street that had led the MOBO-winning band thus far. 

“Such an event would possibly overwhelm some, drown them out at their greatest present to this point, however you felt not even the Welsh nationwide rugby crew might take away Benji from his put up, from the second he entered and (fairly actually) planted his blacked-out Union Jack flag onstage.”