This December, Alabama 3 will return to the road for a run of UK dates, concluding with a hometown show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
Last December, Alabama 3 set out on tour to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of their signature track, “Woke Up This Morning”, soundtracking the hit TV series The Sopranos. Since then, the Brixton-born roots-futurists have spent a large proportion of their time on the road, treating audiences to the sweet sounds of ‘Exile On Cold Harbour Lane’ and ‘La Peste’ a quarter of a decade after they were first released.
Although the anniversary tour has now come to a close, Alabama 3’s love affair with the road is never-ending. The band have now announced a run of dates across the UK this winter, kicking off at SWG3 in Glasgow on 4th December. From there, the band will take to stages in Manchester, Coventry and Bristol before concluding the tour with a huge homecoming show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 13th December.
The full list of dates can be found below. Tickets are available here.
About Alabama 3
We’re the Alabama 3. We make sweet pretty muthafuckin country acid house music. All night long. We’re not from Alabama, and there’s not three of us. We’re from Brixton, London. We’re the fellas that did that Sopranos theme tune. That tune bought someone a swimming pool, but it sure wasn’t any of us…
Alabama 3 is a pop band, a punk rock, blues and country techno situationist crypto-Marxist-Leninist electro band. We never went on X Factor or Pop Idol or Stooge Quest. We did it the old fashioned way. Back in 1996, we threw a big old party, invited all our friends. We took a fistful of blotterd and half a dozen disco biscuits and then made it up as we went along. Geffen Records bought it… for a million dollars! We never needed a self-appointed quango of jaded vampires to tell us how to sing the blues… we got mojo. We have the power to raise the dead.
We spent half of our advance from Geffen on various contraband items and with the rest we made an over-produced, brilliant situationist masterpiece called ‘Exile on Coldharbour Lane’. Ever since then we’ve been preaching our Gospel all over the world. They’ve tried to stop us. Many, many time. They say we were degenerates, corrupters of morals, they say we were too political, too contrived, too ugly. We’ve been in and out of the charts, in and out of fashion, in and out of rehab. We’ve been skint and we’ve been minted… and you know what? It makes no difference to us. Because we’re never gonna stop.
And we want to make you feel good. We know you’ve had trouble in your life, real bad trouble. We know you’ve got debts. We know you’ve had your heart broken so many times you’re still finding pieces of it in your pillow. Maybe you’ve done some good things in your life, maybe you’ve done some bad things. We forgive you. Forgive yourself. Then dress up real sexy and come and party with us some time. We’ll look after you. That’s a promise.
Alabama 3 UK Live Dates:
4th December – SWG3, Glasgow
5th December – O2 Ritz, Manchester
11th December – HMV Empire, Coventry
12th December – O2 Academy, Bristol
13th December – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Tickets are available here.