With her newly brunette barnet & shuffled up live band, Erika M Anderson prepares to bring the EMA live show back to the UK for the first time since her co-headline tour with Souterrain Transmissions label mate Zola Jesus at the end of last year. This string of headline shows includes a stop off at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival to close the Uncut stage and a headline show at London's Scala on May 15th.
To get fans in the right state of mind before the tour, Erika has put together a mixtape to share and download.
Entitled “Hanging Out With Sarah – In Praise of Extremities” (Sarah being Erika’s good friend and temporary guitarist who usually plays in Talk Normal), she introduces it:
“Featuring Cypress Hill, an ultra-rare Gowns song, and the erstwhile lead guitarist of one of the world's most famous rock bands singing "Your Pussy Is Glued To A Building On Fire".
Since then she has toured the world relentlessly; released her stunning debut album ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’ (Souterrain Transmissions) which charted in just about every end of year poll going; baffled critics with her surprise 7” single ‘Angelo’ featuring rapper Mz'Gorjis; and moved us all on Valentine’s Day with digital single ‘Take One Two’. The latter was accompanied by a personal video of a young Erika & her friends with all proceeds being donated to anti-bullying charity The Jamie Isaacs Foundation.
This year she has already smashed Coachella, toured the West coast of America with Wild Flag and now she returns to the UK for her biggest solo UK headline tour so far. She has also recently been confirmed to play Bonnaroo and will be supporting Garbage in Paris later this month. The full EMA UK tour dates are:
MAY 9 Leeds @ Brudnell Social 10 Nottingham @ Bodega 11 Manchester @ The Soup Kitchen 12 Brighton @ The Great Escape (Uncut Stage) 15 London @ Scala
For more information, guest list & interview requests please contactkate@workitmedia.net.
