The tour commemorates La Roux’s fourth studio album ‘Old Flames’ which is set to release on November 6th. La Roux (real name Elly Jackson) took to social media to share her excitement for the tour exclaiming that she “can’t wait to get back on stage and bring the world of ‘Old Flames’ to you guys.”

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The tour will kick off in Toronto on January 31st before Jackson heads to a plethora of stops throughout North America. Taking her from Boston through to San Francisco with the US leg of the tour concluding in Mexico City on the 25th of February. From there Jackson will start the European leg of the tour in early march with stops at Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris.

Jackson will then conclude the tour with a stretch of UK shows in Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol before ending with a homecoming performance at Electric Brixton in London on the 24th of March.

UK and European tickets will go on general sale on Friday October 2nd at 10am local time and will be available here.

This tour comes off the back of a successful global support tour with Hillary Duff and marks the first headline La Roux tour with dates in the UK since her ‘Trouble In Paradise’ tour in 2014. Jackson recently took to Tiktok to open up her struggles with mental health and how she had a “nervous breakdown and disappeared for 10 years”. The clip shows Jackson drinking from a mug whilst a remix of her hit song ‘Bulletproof’ plays in the breakdown. With accompanying text reading “You think you can hurt me? I literally wrote and sung this song, lost my voice, had a nervous breakdown and disappeared for 10 years x”

La Roux’s headline ‘Old Flames’ tour dates: 

North America:
31/1 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, Canada
2/2 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA, US 
3/2 – 9:30 Club –  Washington DC, US
5/2 – Brooklyn Steel –  Brooklyn, NY, US
9/2 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL, US 
10/2 – Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN, US
12/2 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO, US
13/2 – The Depot –  Salt Lake City, UT, US
15/2 – Showbox – Seattle, WA, US 
16/2 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR, US 
19/2 – The Belasco –  Los Angeles, CA, US
20/2 – The Castro – San Francisco, CA, US 
25/2 – Pabellón Oeste – Mexico City, Mexico

Europe:
5/3 – Huxleys Neue Welt- Berlin, Germany
6/3 – Live Music Hall – Cologne, Germany
8/3 – Melkweg OZ – Amsterdam, Netherlands
9/3 – Le Trianon – Paris, France
19/3 – SWG3 TV Studio – Glasgow, UK
20/3 – Academy 2 – Manchester, UK
23/3 – Trinity Centre – Bristol, UK
24/3 – Electric Brixton – London, UK

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In the last few weeks, many artists like Danny Goffey, La Roux, Gaz Coombes and Daniel Briskin showed support to the organisation in these difficult times. An online festival celebrating Liverpool music in support of Liverpool NHS Hospitals and Save our Venues has also been announced recently.

 

 

 

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Artists around England are concerned with the potential losses the music industry will suffer if no measures are taken. This topic was explored further by journalist Poppy Platt in an article published in ‘The Guardian’ on March 13. The singer and songwriter Ellie Rowsell stated the importance of Grassroots Music Venues in an Instagram post shared in the official MVT profile.

 

 

 

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La Roux, the stage name of singer Elly Jackson, accompanied her comeback track with the announcement of a brand new album. Jackson is set to release her upcoming album, ‘Supervision’, on the 7th of February 2020, which is available for pre-order here.

Jackson’s new track, ‘International Women of Leisure’, has been described as “an anthem about not taking anymore shit”, a playful riposte to the debonair lifestyle of male privilege.” The video for the track, ‘International Women of Leisure’, which has been directed by Nova Dando-directed.

La Roux’s comeback announcement was also accompanied by news of a world tour, in 2020, with tickets going on sale, on the 6th of November 2019, at 10am. The announcement comes as La Roux is scheduled to play a gig, in London, at Fabric, on the 6th of November.

Speaking to DIY, after the release of her 2015 album, ‘Trouble In Paradise’, Jackson, said: “Whatever my next record is, I’d really like to practice what I preach essentially. To not just say all of this but – I shouldn’t say this as it’s setting myself an enormous task! – but to just do it and make a record that is… I’d like it to be more earthy. I’d like it feel more organic, but not in an acoustic guitar [way]. There won’t be any acoustic guitars or anything like that in it!

“I want it to be more earthy, more organic and we want it to be bigger and it’s definitely going to be more soulful. I’d like it to feel more raw and not try to be so perfect and so shiny, in a way. I think music’s gotten so shiny… So, hopefully, we’ll see what happens in the next year.”

La Roux, was originally a two-piece, but Elly Jackson is now the sole member, following the departure of Ben Langmaid. Langmaid’s exit from the band was announced ahead of the release of the last La Roux record ‘Trouble in Paradise’ in July 2014.