The Scottish singer announced in July that she would be releasing some solo music and heading out on tour, however, there was no indication of when we could expect to hear any new music.

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The pop band’s lead singer didn’t keep fans waiting for long, as on August 11th , she revealed that her first single “Are You Awake?” would be with us in September.

Over the weekend, Mayberry dropped the highly anticipated single, as well as a music video for the song.

“Are You Awake?” was written by Mayberry and Canadian singer-songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr, who has collaborated on songwriting with other UK artists such as Adele and Niall Horan.

The piano-led ballad is a slight leap from the energetic synth-pop we have come to expect from CHVRCHES, and in a recent press release, Lauren shared that “I was thinking a lot about loneliness and homesickness, and as soon as Tobias started playing the chords, the lyrics and melody came to me really quickly. I finished the song with my friend Matthew Koma, who really understood what I was trying to say.”

“For a long time, I couldn’t imagine doing anything outside of CHVRCHES but I think some things that I needed to write had to be done from purely my own point of view. I never really thought I’d write a piano ballad, or a solo album full stop, so life really is full of surprises. I am really looking forward to this chapter and can’t wait for people to hear more of the music.”

Though Lauren is venturing out on her own, her career with CHVRCHES is far from over. The trio announced last month that in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of their debut album, The Bones Of What You Believe, they would be releasing a re-issue of their 2013 LP on October 13th. The re-issue of the album will include 4 previously unheard tracks, as well as 5 live recordings. The band has given fans a taste of what’s to come by releasing “Manhattan”, one of the unheard songs that didn’t make it onto the album’s original release.

You can listen to “Manhattan” below.

For tickets to Lauren Mayberry’s upcoming tour, click here.

Tour dates:

05/10/2023 – SWG3 TV Studio – Glasgow, UK

06/10 – O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK

08/10 – Academy 2 – Manchester, UK

09/10 – Koko – London, UK

11/10 – Melkweg Oz – Amsterdam, Netherlands

12/10 – Lido – Berlin, Germany

13/10 – Strom – Munich, Germany

15/10 – La Maroquinerie – Paris, France

16/10 – Luxor – Cologne, Germany

17/10 – Rock Cafe – Prague, Czech Republic

19/10 – Flex – Vienna, Austria

21/10 – Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland

22/10 – Magnolia – Milan, Italy

24/10 – La Nau – Barcelona, Spain

25/10 – Sala Copernico – Madrid, Spain

The double Mercury Prize winner will play two dates in each city on her journey. Commencing at 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin on the 22^nd September, Polly Jean will perform at Barrowland in Glasgow, The Roundhouse in London, and The Albert Hall in Manchester on her tour. She will then travel to Europe playing in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Zurich, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Copenhagen, and close the tour in Oslo on Halloween.

The alternative chamber folk singer-songwriter unveiled her plans for the tour to her community mailing list this morning (7^th June) prior to social media.

A limited number of presale tickets will be available Wednesday 14^th June 10 am BST to those who pre-order Harvey’s new album I Inside The Old Year Dying from the official store which you can access here. For members of the mailing list community tickets will be on presale at Thursday 15^th June from 10 am BST. Sign up to PJ’s mailing list here. General sale will begin on Friday 16^th June. See here for tickets.

Alongside this announcement came the haunting title track from PJ’s upcoming album. The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña. Watch the video below:

“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio,” Harvey revealed in a press release. “Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed record whilst I sat next to John trying to work out how to sing to it. The result somehow captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I was looking for.”

Back in April, PJ Harvey ended her musical hiatus by sharing the ethereal and hypnotic single “A Child’s Question, August” as well as announcing the news of her 10^th studio album. Watch the video for the track directed by Steve Gullick below:

 I Inside the Old Year Dying will be released on 7^th July via Partisan Records. The record is the follow up to 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project and was produced and mixed by her long-time collaborators John Parrish and Flood. On Instagram, PJ wrote, “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs. It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has finally become all I hoped for it to be.”

See the track list for I Inside the Old Year Dying below:

1.  Prayer at the Gate
2. Autumn Term
3. Lwonesome Tonight
4. Seem an I
5. The Nether-edge
6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
7. All Souls
8. A Child’s Question, August
9. I Inside the Old I Dying
10. August
11. A Child’s Question, July
12. A Noiseless Noise

Over the last three years, Polly Jean has shared previously unheard demos for all her studio albums.

See below for all of PJ Harvey’s upcoming UK and Europe tour dates:

22/09/23 – 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
23/09– 3Olympia Theatre – Dublin
25/09 – Barrowland – Glasgow
26/09 – Barrowland – Glasgow
28/09 – Roundhouse – London
29/09 – Roundhouse – London
02/10 – Albert Hall – Manchester
03/10 – Albert Hall – Manchester
06/10 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
07/10 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
09/10 – Cirque Royal – Brussels
10/10 – Cirque Royal – Brussels
12/10 – Olympia – Paris
13/10 – Olympia – Paris
15/10 – Volkshaus – Zurich
16/10 – Volkshaus – Zurich
18/10 – Velký sál Lucerna – Prague
19/10 – Velký sál Lucerna – Prague
21/10 – Admiralspalast – Berlin
22/10 – Admiralspalast – Berlin
24/10 – Palladium – Warsaw
25/10 – Palladium – Warsaw
27/10 – Falkonersalen – Copenhagen
28/10 – Falkonersalen – Copenhagen
30/10 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo
31/10 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo

Ships will be premiering on the 21st October as the centrepiece of the 2023 Venice Biennale Musica. Eno will then play shows in prestigious venues in Berlin, Paris, and Utrecht before closing the tour with two performances at 6:30 pm and 9 pm for the Royal Festival Hall in London on 30^th October.

Tickets will go on general sale from Thursday 8^th June. Members of the Southbank Centre can access the ticket presale from 10 AM BST on Wednesday 7^th June. For more information see here.

Eno will be performing with Baltic Sea Philharmonic, orchestrated and conducted by Kristjan Järvi as commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia. At the Biennale Musica, Eno will be honoured with the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award “for his research into the quality, beauty and diffusion of digital sound and for his conception of the acoustic space as a compositional instrument” according to the event’s page.

#BiennaleMusica2023 @brianeno, this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, has just announced his first ever solo live concert tour, starting on October 21 at the @teatrolafenice, as part of the 67th International Festival of Contemporary Music. SHIPS is commissioned by… https://t.co/LPdDpiiY8f

— La Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) June 6, 2023

Eno toured with Roxy Music in the 70s but has since rarely played live only playing one-off shows or at festivals. Brian and his brother Roger played together at Acropolis, Athens back in 2021 as part of the annual Epidaurus Festival. The concert was filmed and screened in cinemas across the UK for one night only on the 2^nd March earlier this year.

Originally Eno didn’t plan on making The Ship a record. “The way the whole piece started out was not as a record but as an installation,” Eno told Entertainment Weekly back in 2016. When a friend of Eno’s asked him for a recording of the installation in Stockholm he started thinking of making The Ship an album. “It took me by surprise a little bit,” he continued. “I wasn’t planning it as my next record project when I started it.”

On the third track “Fickle Sun (ii) The Hour Is Thin”, Eno used a Markov chain generator to create the lyrics spoken by Peter Serafinowicz by mixing “dirty songs by First World War soldiers” with “accounts written from the lifeboats by people watching the Titanic sinking” and “part of a book about the blitz over London”. The result is an eerie and twisted lullaby. Listen to the track below:

Last month Eno collaborated with British DJ Fred Again.. on the surprise LP Secret Life. The album was released on electronic artist Four Tet’s label Text Records and was dubbed by the artist “the most beautiful album of 2023”.

The album Secret Life by Fred again and Brian Eno is coming out on my label Text Records on Friday

— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 2, 2023

Listen to the track “Trying” from the album below:

See below for Brian Eno’s Ships tour dates:
21/10/23 – Venice Biennale Musica – Venice
24/10 – Philharmonie Berlin – Berlin
26/10 – La Seine Musicale – Paris
28/10 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht
30/10 – Royal Festival Hall – London

The band from Kettering will begin the tour in Leeds on the 7^th September, before playing in Manchester, Nottingham, London, Bristol, and Brighton. They’ll also be playing gigs in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland this autumn concluding in Nürnberg on the 6^th October.

Temples will also be playing several festivals this summer including Musilac in France and Summer Well Festival in Romania. For tickets and more information see here. Last July, Temples supported Pearl Jam for their second day headlining the BST Hyde Park festival.

The band took to social media to share their excitement writing, “EUROPE our EXOTICO tour is now LIVE! we can’t wait to see you all in September & October”.

Exotico, Temples’ fourth studio album, was released on the 14^th April via ATO. The 16-track LP was produced by Sean Ono Lennon and mixed by Dave Fridmann who has previously worked with many other psych acts including Beach House, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, and MGMT. Full of funky, bass-heavy, synthy summery tunes, Exotico mixes “Acid House meets Arabic Dancefloor!” as bass guitarist Thomas Walmsley adequately put it to It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.

Listen to the lead single from the album “Gamma Rays” below:

Exotico took three years to be released and was a product of the pandemic. “Writing began in 2020, around when the world stopped moving,” Walmsley said. “We’d just had a tour cut short due to the pandemic and I guess as a musician you try to alter focus and throw yourself into writing, for better or for worse, we wrapped up recording in 2022. It’s definitely longer than we’d hoped to take, but I think the process ended up making the best record.” 

Temples formed just over a decade ago as a home studio project. Lead singer James Bagshaw and Walmsley were originally in rival bands in their hometown but eventually teamed up to play in the band The Moons. The demos the duo uploaded to YouTube caught the attention of Heavenly Recordings founder Jeff Barrett who released the band’s debut single “Shelter Song” in 2012. Watch the video for “Shelter Song” below:

Their debut album, Sun Structures, reached number 7 in the UK in 2014 and their follow up three years, Volcano, later peaked at the 23rd spot.

Since then, the band has undergone a few revisions with the current lineup consisting of Bagshaw and Walmsley as well as Adam Thomas Smith on rhythm guitar and keyboards, and Rens Ottink on drums.

See below for Temples’ upcoming Europe and UK dates:

08/07/23 – Musilac – Aix-les-bains
14/07 – Festival Chauffer dans la Noirceur – Montmartin-sur-mer
11/08 – Summer Well Festival – Buftea
07/09 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
09/09 – Band on the Wall – Manchester
10/09 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham
11/09 – Koko – London
13/09 – The Fleece – Bristol
14/09 – Patterns – Brighton
16/09 – Le 106 – Rouen
17/09 – Chabada – Angers
18/09 – La Cigale – Paris
19/09 – Le Botanique – Bruxelles
20/09 – Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing
24/09 – Gebäude 9 – Cologne
26/09 – THT/Paradiso Noord – Amsterdam
28/09 – SO36 – Berlin
29/09 – Ampere – Munich
01/10 – Les Docks – Lausanne
02/10 – Plaza Club and Bar – Zürich
03/10 – La Belle Electrique – Grenoble
04/10 – La Cooperative de Mai – Clermont-ferrand
05/10 – Artefact La Laiterie – Strasbourg
06/10 – Nürnberg Pop – Nürnberg

The band has also shared the first track from the album. Listen below to the dreamy “Snowman”:

The trio will begin touring their new album in the States this October and begin their 14-date European leg in mid-November starting with Genève. The band will then close the tour with 3 dates in the UK playing in Leeds, Bristol, and London.

Keeping with the theme of the album, the band will also be hosting special dinners at select restaurants in Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles in September, offering fans chance to spend some time with the band over a meal. Tickets are available through the exclusive album bundle, including a signed vinyl, a limited edition section1 magazine, and dinner with the band. For tickets and more information see here.

Sit Down For Dinner was a product of lockdown written and recorded over a five-year period. In 2020, lead singer Kazu Makino reading a passage from Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’, was struck by Didion’s reflections on her devastating experience of witnessing her husband’s sudden death at the dinner table. Makino thought of her own lost ritual of congregating for dinner with family. The line “You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends” eventually inspired the album’s title.

For the Pace brothers, family dinners also hold a cultural weight. “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much—and that’s OK—but we really do,” says Simone. “It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.” Pre-save the album here.

See below for Sit Down For Dinner’s tracklist:

1. Snowman
2. Kiss Her Kiss Her
3. Not for Me
4. Melody Experiment
5. Rest of Her Life
6. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1
7. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2
8. I Thought You Should Know
9. Before
10. If
11. Via Savona

Alt-rock trio Blonde Redhead first formed in New York in 1993 when Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace met Japanese art student Kazu Makino by chance in an Italian restaurant. The band has dipped their toes in noise rock, dream pop, shoegaze, and art rock throughout its discography. They’ve cultivated a loyal following and gained a resurge in popularity after the closing track to 2000’s Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons, “For the Damaged Coda”, was used in a Rick and Morty episode and became a viral meme.

Listen to “For the Damaged Coda” below:

For all of Blonde Redhead’s upcoming European and UK dates see below:

23/09 – Montezuma Cafe – Paris
25/09 – Brilliant Corners – London
20/07 – The Lexington – London
20/11 – PTR LʼUsine – Genève
21/11 – Teatro Regio di Parma – Parma
23/11 – Gebaude 9 – Cologne
24/11 – Hole 44 – Berlin
25/11 – Bahnhof Pauli – Hamburg
27/11 – Aeronef – Lille
28/11 – La Cigale – Paris
29/11 – Stereolux – Nantes
01/12 – Antipode – Rennes
02/12 – La Sirene – La Rochelle
03/12 – Le Bikini – Toulouse
05/12 – Orangerie – Brussels
06/12 – Paradiso – Amsterdam
07/12 – De Zwerver – Leffinge
09/12 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
10/12 – Thekla – Bristol
12/12 – Village Underground – London

The band from Oklahoma originally had a hit with the single in 1997 when it shot to number one in 12 countries including the UK, US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. “MMMBop” was the lead single from the band’s pop rock debut album Middle of Nowhere recorded when the Hanson brother were only teens. Watch the original video below:

The Busted boys shared the new collab on Instagram with the caption, “It’s such an honour to sing this 90’s classic with the band who made it 25 years on from original release. Something a bit different that we hope will bring some happiness to all of you and we cannot wait to have HANSON out with us on tour in September around the UK & Ireland”.

The single will appear on Busted’s upcoming reworked greatest hits album to celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary. The album is set to feature 15 reworked versions of Busted’s fan-favourites. Since their launch in 2002, the band from Essex has had four UK number-one singles, won two Brit awards, and sold over 5 million records worldwide.

Last month Busted shared a revamped version of the 2002 anthem “Loser Kid” featuring the boys from Montreal’s Simple Plan. Listen below:

Welsh pop-punk group Neck Deep also helped turn the band’s 2003 soft acoustic ballad “Meet You There” into an energetic rock track earlier this month. Listen below:

Busted’s Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis, and James Bourne announced their plans to celebrate two decades of the band with a huge comeback UK autumn tour in March much to the delight of fans of the boy band. The trio will be playing 20 dates across the UK in September supported by Hanson. See here for remaining tickets and more information.

Matt revealed to the Mancunion, “We’re mainly going to be playing the first two records. It’s going to be a big Busted love fest. We’ve all just fell back in love with Busted. We’re embracing it. It feels like the right time to do that with our fans.”

For the complete list of Busted’s UK & Europe dates see below:

02/09/23 – Plymouth Pavillions – Plymouth
03/09 – CIA – Cardiff
05/09 – Swansea Arena – Swansea
06/09 – BIC – Bournemouth
07/09 – Brighton Centre – Brighton
09/09 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
10/09 – The O2 – London
12/09 – Bridlington Spa – Bridlington
13/09 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle Upon Tyne
15/09 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
16/09 – Utilita Arena – Newcastle Upon Tyne
17/09 – First Direct Arena – Leeds
19/09 – P&J Live – Aberdeen
20/09 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
22/09 – M&S Bank Arena – Liverpool
23/09 – Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
24/09 – AO Arena – Manchester,
26/09 – Cardiff International Arena – Cardiff
27/09 – The O2 – London
29/09 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
30/09 – AO Arena – Manchester
01/10 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow
06/10 – 3Arena – Dublin
08/10 – The SSE Arena – Belfast
10/10 – The O2 – London

Miles Parks McCollum, aka Lil Boat, aka Lil Yachty, will travel through the US starting the first leg of the tour in Washington in late September and ending in Detroit in early November. He will jet off to Europe starting with Oslo in late November concluding the tour in mid-December in Vienna.

Yachty will be visiting Manchester, London, Glasgow, and Birmingham during the second leg of his tour. On the 30th November he will visit the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. The following evening he will play the UK’s capital at the OVO Wembley Arena. Yachty will visit Scotland on the 3rd December performing at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. His final UK date will be in Birmingham’s O2 Academy on the 4th December.

The charismatic rapper shared the tour poster to his Instagram with the caption “Tickets are now on pre-sale at fieldtriptour.com finally. The link is in my bio.. gooooooooooo, it’s been a long time”.

General sale for tickets begins on Friday the 12^th May at 12 PM BST. Tickets are now available on pre-sale. To purchase and for more information see here.

The newly psychedelically inspired artist will also be popping up at a couple of festivals this summer in the UK and Europe including Ruissalo in Turku and Wireless in London.

On Let’s Start Here, released in January, Yachty abandoned the mumble rap trap persona he was notorious for in favour of a more mature kaleidoscopic soundscape of R&B and neo-soul with echoey guitar riffs and autotuned vocals. His experimentations paid off and the record has fast become a fan favourite and achieved Yachty the highest critical praise in his career.

Watch the video for “sAy sOMETHINg” below:

Yachty dipped his toes into neo-psychedelia with help from a bunch of industry heavyweights such as slacker rock extraordinaire Alex G, beloved indie rocker Mac Demarco, the electropop duo Magdalena Bay, MGMT’s Ben Goldwasser, and Chairlift’s Patrick Wimberley who all played a part in bringing Let’s Start Here together.

“This album is so special and dear to me. I think I created it just because I really wanted to be taken seriously as an artist,” Yachty told the crowd gathered at the album release party in New Jersey. “Not just some SoundCloud rapper. Not just some mumble rapper. Not just some guy who made one hit. I wanted to be taken serious because music is everything to me. I respect all walks of music, not just rap and hip hop. Everything.” Watch more of his speech below:

Lil Yachty on his new album ‘Let’s Start Here’ at his listening event tonight

“I wanted to be taken seriously as an artist… not just some SoundCloud rapper, not some mumble rapper…”pic.twitter.com/4xHg7ihOKS

— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) January 27, 2023

For all Lil Yachty’s upcoming European and UK dates see below:

07/07/23 – Ruisrock – Turku
07/08 – Wireless – London
22/11 – Sentrum Scene – Oslo
24/11 – Fryhuset – Stockholm
25/11 – KB Hallen – Copenhagen
27/11 – Columbiahalle – Berlin
28/11 – Palladium – Cologne
30/11 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
01/12 – OVO Wembley Arena – London
03/12 – O2 Academy – Glasgow
04/12 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
06/12 – Salle Pleyel – Paris
08/12 – Poppodium013 – Tilburg
10/12 – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels
12/12 – Razzmatazz – Barcelona
14/12 – Fabrique – Milan
16/12 – Komplex 457 – Zurich
17/12 – Gasometer – Vienna

The band’s unconventional choice of venues – a castle, theme park, and an 18^th Century cloth hall – have somewhat baffled fans who are delighted nonetheless with Queens of the Stone Age’s return. The shows will be the first headline UK concerts the band from the desert has played in five years.

Kicking off the tour on the 20^th June, the band will play The Piece Hall in Halifax, then head to the theme park Dreamland in Margate on the 22^nd June, and finish the run on the 23^rd June at Cardiff Castle.

Supporting the band for all three shows will be the Isle of Wight indie pop band Coach Party. The up-and-comers shared the announcement on their Instagram captioning the post, “we’ll also be riding this one for a long time”.

The dates are a welcome addition to Queens of The Stone Age’s already-packed European summer schedule. Josh Homme and his crew will be performing at a myriad of festivals this summer including Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium, Les Nuits de Fourvière in France, Mad Cool Festival in Spain, and NOS Alive Festival in Portugal. Queens of the Stone Age will also be playing in the US this year with shows in Sacramento, Louisville, New York, Boston, and Columbus.

The announcement of the band’s UK shows was shared across the band’s social media accounts on the 18^th April with the cryptic caption, “The worlds gonna end in a month or so….”, leading to some fans speculating that new music might be on the way this summer.

Back in 2019, ZZ Top founder Billy Gibbons revealed to eonmusic that he will appear on QOTSA’s next album. He also told the magazine that David Grohl would also be featured on the album. “Just one month ago I was making a record with Queens of the Stone Age“, said Gibbons in an interview with eonmusic Hellfest in France, “and Dave Grohl was also taking part and he decided to have a big barbecue. So there was this interesting gathering. So, we spent one hour telling stories, great stories remembering these lovely guys.”

It’s been nearly six years since the band’s last LP, the carefree and energetic Villains produced by Mark Ronson. The album received positive reviews and topped Billboard’s US Top Alternative Albums and US Top Rock Albums Charts. It was also nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2018 Grammys.

Listen to the lead single from Villians, “The Way You Used To Do“, below:

Tickets for the UK shows go on sale on Friday 21^st April at 9 am BST. For tickets and more information see here.

See below for Queens of the Stone Age’s UK and European dates:

16/06/23 – Southside Festival Germany – Neuhausen Ob Eck
17/06 – Pinkpop Festival – Landgraaf
18/06 – Hurricane Festival – Scheessel
20/06 – The Piece Hall – Halifax
22/06 – Dreamland – Margate
23/06 – Cardiff Castle – Cardiff
28/06 – Roskilde Festival – Roskilde
30/06 –Open’er Festival – Gdynia
02/07 – Rock Werchter Festival – Werchter
04/07 – Les Nuits de Fourvière – Lyon
05/07 – Pause Guitare Festival – Albi
07/07 – Mad Cool Festival – Madrid
08/07 – NOS Alive Festival – Lisbon

British Lion consists of bass guitarist and keyboardist Steve Harris, lead vocalist Richard Taylor, guitarist and keyboardist David Hawkins, guitarist Grahame Leslie and drummer Simon Dawson. The band are signed to German-British record label, Parlophone. Steve Harris is best known for being the bassist in award winning British heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. British Lion were founded as a side-project by Steve Harris in 2012 and have released two studio albums, self titled album British Lion (2012) and The Burning (2020).

The British Lion tour is designed around the Iron Maiden’s 2023 tour schedule, as Steve Harris will also be touring with Iron Maiden this summer. Iron Maiden’s ‘The Future Past’ European tour will also begin in May 2023 and carry on into the August. No support acts for their shows have been released as of yet. Steve Harris has appeared on all 17 of Iron Maiden’s studio albums, self titled album Iron Maiden (1980), Killers (1981), The Number of the Beast (1982), Piece of Mind (1983), Powerslave (1984), Somewhere in Time (1986), Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988), No Prayer for the Dying (1990), Fear of the Dark (1992), The X Factor (1995), Virtual XI (1998), Brave New World (2000), Dance of Death (2006), The Final Frontier (2010), The Book of Souls (2015) and Senjutsu (2021).

Iron Maiden was created by bassist, Steve Harris in 1975, taking the band five years to release their self titled debut album. The bassist was an architectural draughtsman, in London, before finding success in the band. In an interview in 2020 for Nights with Alice Cooper, Harris explained ”Well, straight after school, really, I went straight into that job. I did my college stuff and on the weekends, two nights a week, I made sure I got qualified to a certain degree because I thought, If the band don’t work, then I’ll have something to fall back on.” 

Steve Harris has gone on to form great success in both Iron Maiden and British Lion and the upcoming tours for both bands are expected to be a triumph.

British Lion UK & European 2023 Tour Dates:

27/05/2023 – Cvetlicarna – Ljubljana

02/06 – Pakkahuone – Tampere

06/06 – Ole Bull Scene – Bergen

08/06 – Sweden Rock – Solvesborg

12/06– Kamienna 12 – Krakow

16/06 –  Hellfest –  Clisson

20/06 –  Capitol – Hannover

23/06 – Opium – Dublin

29/06 – Rebellion – Manchester

02/07 – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham

10/07 – Q Factory – Amsterdam

14/07– Legend – Milan

19/07 – Garaje Beat Club – Murcia

24/07 – FZW – Dortmund

30/07 – Backstage Halle – Munich

Tickets for the tour are on sale now. To access tickets, click here.