Just off the back of her appearance at the Reading & Leeds Festival last weekend, the Norwegian pop star has now revealed that she will be hosting a fan event today followed by a free show on Friday.

The Girl In Red or to call her by her real name Marie Ulven revealed this free show with a post on her Instagram page that read “I’M PLAYING A FREE SHOW IN LONDON ON FRIDAY, Come meet me on thursday in Boxpark Shoreditch at 2PM to get your free ticket.”

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The meet and greet event where fans can obtain their tickets for the free show, with an as yet unknown location will take place from 2:00 pm at Boxpark Shoreditch in East London.

Additionally earlier this year, Girl In Red also unveiled details of a new 2022 US tour. The singer will travel to North America for the first time next year, in support of her debut album, If I Could Make It Go Quiet.

The tour begins in Nashville on March 8 2022 and will finish in San Francisco on April 12.

Meanwhile, Girl In Red was announced as one of the support acts for the UK and Ireland dates of Billie Eilish’s upcoming tour.

Jessie Reyez, Jungle and Arlo Parks will also join the star for the gigs, which is set to start in June 2022.

News of the gigs’ support acts comes along with an additional new date for the otherwise sold-out shows. Eilish will now also perform an added London set on June 26.

The show will not just be the band’s first live performance in two years but will also mark the O2 arena’s reopening, the famous venue was forced to temporally closed its doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions which have been put in place due to the health crisis. The free show will be in support of the NHS staff who have proceeded to be on the front lines of the current health crisis, NHS workers and their families will be able to attend the concert by showing their NHS pass along with their tickets. The gig will take place a day before the band’s original rescheduled date on 11th August 2021, the sold-out event will also take place at O2 Arena.

The group took to their Instagram page to announce the news, the post also featured a message of thanks from drummer Russel Hobbs.

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The O2 Arena’s VP and General Manager, Steve Sayer, has also commented on the importance of the show as well as the venue’s excitement to be back at business. “This is such a big moment for us. Our first live show in over 500 days, with one of the UK’s best bands playing to an audience made up of NHS staff and their families. We have missed the fans and live performances so much, we couldn’t be more proud to reopen with this event and to welcome such a great audience.”

The live dates in August will not be the group’s only live performances, the group has also been announced to play at Primavera Sound Festival in 2022. The festival is set to take place at the Parc del Forum located in Barcelona Spain and will be held across two weekends in the month of June. Over the two weekends, 2-4 June 2022 and 9-11 June 2022, ticket-holders will get to see over 400 acts perform. Other acts including Gorillaz on the line up include Lorde, Tame Impala and indie icons The Strokes.

The group consists of non-virtual and virtual members, the non-virtual bandmates include Blur member Damon Albarn, comic book artist Jamie Hewlett and producer Remi Kabaka Jr. The ‘Feel Good Inc’ performers also include virtual and animated bandmates, 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle and Russel Hobbs. The band recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Gorillaz’ released on 26th March 2021. The album featured the now-legendary track ‘Clint Eastwood’ which launched the group into immense popularity, the album also gained the group entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were included within the impressive roster of achievements as the Most Successful Virtual Band and the album reached a phenomenal 3 million global sales. For this year’s Record Store Day the band also marked their debut album’s birthday celebrations with their participation in the event, the group released a box set of six of their studio albums. The box set was entitled ‘G Collection’ and was a popular item for Record Store Day.

The Reading and Leeds Festival runs from August 23 to August 25. The three day event will see A Day To Remember supporting Foo Fighters, and will also be welcoming acts including The 1975, Royal Blood, Bastille, Post Malone and Twenty One Pilots.

Tickets for the band’s one time free gig go live on August 16, with doors opening at 7pm.

ATTENTION! @adtr will be taking over our main stage next Wednesday 21/8 for a FREE show! Tickets are live this Friday 16/8 – set those alarms.

More info ⚡️ https://t.co/7TrWok357g pic.twitter.com/vyjbsVrW7F

— HouseOfVansLDN (@HouseOfVansLDN) August 14, 2019

Back at the beginning of August, the band announced an upcoming Autumn tour, entitled ‘The Degenerates Tour’, playing alongside I Prevail and Beartooth. I Prevail continue to promote their second album ‘Trauma’, released back in March.

A Day To Remember Fall 2019 Tour Dates.

6/9/19 – Buffalo Riverworks – Buffalo, N.Y
7/9 – Self Help Festival – Worcester, Mass
8/9 -  Blue Ridge Rock Festival – Concord, Va
27/9 – Louder Than Life Festival – Louisville, Ky
28/9 – CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park – Simpsonville, S.C
12/10 – Self Help Festival – San Bernardino, Calif
13/10 – Aftershock Festival – Sacramento, Calif
15/10 -  CenturyLink Arena  - Boise, Idaho
16/10 – USANA Amphitheatre – West Valley City, Utah
17/10 – Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, Colo
21/10 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, Texas
22/10  - NRG Arena – Houston, Texas
23/10 – Concrete Street Amphitheatre – Corpus Christi, Texas
25/10 – The Family Arena – St. Charles, Mo
26/10 – Credit Union 1 Arena – Chicago, Ill.
27/10 – The Armory – Minneapolis, Minn
29/10 – Scheels Arena – Fargo, N.D
30/10 – Wells Fargo Arena – Des Moines, Iowa
31/10 – Silverstein Eye Centers Arena – Independence, Mo
2/11 – Petersen Events Center – Pittsburgh, Pa
3/11 – EagleBank Arena – Fairfax, Va
5/11 – Place Bell – Laval, Quebec
7/11 – Santander Arena – Reading Pa
9/11 – Cool Insuring Arena – Glens Falls, N.Y
10/11 – CURE Insurance Arena – Trenton, N.J
12/11 – The Oncenter War Memorial Arena – Syracuse, N.Y
14/11 – Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Ind
15/11 – Wolstein Center – Cleveland, Ohio
16/11 – Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center – Ypsilanti, Mich.
17/11 – Big Sandy Superstore Arena – Huntington, W.V
19/11 – Terminal 5 – New York, N.Y
21/11 – Infinite Energy Arena – Duluth, Ga
22/11 – Nashville Municipal Auditorium – Nashville, Tenn
23/11 – The Crown Theater – Fayetteville, N.C