UK NATIONWIDE TOUR OCT/NOV 2012 

ROUNDHOUSE HEADLINE SHOW 6th NOVEMBER 

‘POISON & WINE’ EP 4TH NOVEMBER 

500,000 ALBUMS SOLD IN THE US & 2 GRAMMYS

‘A bewitching debut album’ The Observer

‘A deliciously understated album’ The Guardian
 

Double Grammy winners, The Civil Wars return to the UK for a nationwide tour that starts in Belfast on October 28th and includes a sold-out show at London’s historic Roundhouse on November 6th. The tour comes as the band’s acclaimed debut album ‘Barton Hollow’ passes 500,000 sales in the USand has been awarded Silver in the UK with sales fast approaching 100,000 copies.

Based in Nashville, The Civil Wars are an enigmatic duo comprised of California native Joy Williams and her Alabaman partner, John Paul White. They are a huge DIY success in the USA where, in addition to having independently sold over 500,000 copies of the ‘Barton Hollow’ album, they have performed several highly acclaimed sell-out tours. Their incredible year in the US was rounded off by winning two 2012 Grammy Awards for Best Folk Album and Best Country Performance earlier this year. The band also performed at the ceremony, propelling their album back into the US iTunes Top Five. 

Now returning to build on their ever-expanding following in the UK, The Civil Wars play the following live shows:

Oct 28 Belfast Mandela Hall

Oct 29 Dublin Olympia

Oct 30 Manchester Apollo

Nov 1   Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

Nov 2   Glasgow o2 ABC

Nov 3   Gateshead Sage

Nov 4   Cambridge Corn Exchange

Nov 6   London Roundhouse

Nov 7   Brighton Dome

Nov 8   Coventry Arts Centre

Nov 10 Southampton Guildhall

Nov 11 Cardiff University

For ticket info please visit http://thecivilwars.com/tour.php

The band have built a reputation for their incredible live shows and they set the ‘Later with Jools’studio alight on their last UK trip with their debut UK TV performance of ‘Barton Hollow’ which can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=A-DB2btV2oQ The stunning performance led to the band trending worldwide on Twitter immediately after the show.

Adele has personally chosen the band to support her on her recent US and UK tours and says ‘The Civil Wars are by far the BEST live band I have EVER seen.’

To coincide with the UK tour, the band are releasing ‘Poison & Wine’ as a radio single and will be re-issuing their ‘Poison & Wine’ EP as a companion release to ‘Barton Hollow’.

‘Poison & Wine’ EP Tracklisting: 1. Poison & Wine 2. Talking In Your Sleep (The Romantics cover 3. Between The Bars (Elliott Smith cover) 4. Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins cover)

Accompanied by dark and brooding visuals, the bands imagery continues the intimate conversations and understated sparks of the music. The haunting video for ‘Poison & Wine’ can be seen athttp://bit.ly/TCW-PaWVideo. The bands tumblr is full of beautiful photography chronicling life on the road www.tcwtour.tumblr.com/

www.thecivilwars.com