ANNOUNCE UK TOUR – NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2013 

Debut Album: All Hell Breaks LooseRelease Date: 27th May 2013  

"songs that could slip onto a Thin Lizzy album and stand shoulder to shoulder with almost anything there" 

– Classic Rock magazine review of “All Hell Breaks Loose” album

BLACK STAR RIDERS, the new band featuring THIN LIZZY members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper / Megadeth), have announced their first UK headline tour.

The tour will support the release of their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose which will be released in the UK through on Nuclear Blast Entertainment on the 27th May 2013. 

The band already released their debut single “Bound For Glory”, which was premiered on BBC Radio 2 and is available to hear below.  

The band are set to take the UK and Eire by storm on their 2013 tour, playing much of the debut album and some Thin Lizzy classics.

Confirmed headline and festival appearances for BLACK STAR RIDERS in 2013 include the below (with more dates to be announced): 

Friday 22nd Nov             O2 Academy, Bournemouth

Saturday 23rd Nov          O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London

Monday 25th Nov           O2 Academy, Bristol

Tuesday 26th Nov           Junction, Cambridge

Wednesday 27th Nov      UEA, Norwich

Friday 29th Nov              Hard Rock Hell 6, Wales – FESTIVAL CO-HEADLINE

Saturday 30th Nov          Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

Sunday 1st Dec              Solus/University, Cardiff

Monday 2nd Dec            O2 Academy, Oxford

Thursday 5th Dec           Ironworks, Inverness 
Friday 6th Dec                Picturehouse, Edinburgh

Saturday 7th Dec            O2 Academy, Newcastle

Sunday 8th Dec              O2 Academy, Leeds

Tuesday 10th Dec           The Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa

Thursday 12th Dec          Rock City, Nottingham

Friday 13th Dec              Ritz, Manchester

Saturday 14th Dec          Academy, Dublin, EIRE 

Tickets for headline shows are priced 22.50GBP / 25.00 GBP London (subject to booking fees) – Dublin is E25. Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Thursday 2nd May, with tickets for the London show available from www.livenation.co.uk orwww.ticketmaster.co.uk.

VIP Packages available for all shows - including meet and greet and special acoustic performance – available from April 29th via the VIP package link at:  http://www.blackstarriders.com

Special Guests to be announced… 

The album will be released as a standard CD and also as a special edition digi-pak featuring a bonus track “Right To Be Wrong” and a “Making of” DVD. A 24-minute compilation of behind-the-scenes video reports from the band’s studio time in Los Angeles can be viewed on YouTube: http://youtu.be/JEx9gD8RPz8 

Visit BLACK STAR RIDERS online at:

www.facebook.com/BLACKSTARRIDERSOFFICIAL

www.BLACKSTARRIDERS.com

Twitter.com/BLACKSTARRIDERS 

For further information contact: Duff Battye @ Duff Press 02077367611/07904385308 duff@duffpress.co.uk  

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