UPDATE: Björk announces new UK tour

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by Kev Kharas [Edit this content] ▾ 27 comments 11:32 November 19th, 2007

Björk announced her first UK tour in four years over the course of the weekend.

The acclaimed solo artiste will play eight days strung across these isles when she visits in the spring:

Dates:

April
11 Manchester Apollo
14 London Hammersmith Apollo
17 London Hammersmith Apollo
22 Plymouth Pavilion
25 Wolverhampton Civic Hall
28 Belfast Watefront

May
1 Blackpool Empress Ballroom
4 Sheffield City Hall

Tickets for the shows, which will feature an all-female, 10-piece Icelandic brass section and Chris Corsano (Sonic Youth) on percussion, go on sale at 9am this Thursday, 22nd November from GigsAndTours.com. However, an exclusive pre-sale will start from Bjork.com at 9am this Tuesday. Go there, sign up, queue jump.

Entry to all will cost £36, barring London which comes to £40 per head.

Also in the pipes for the next few months is a brand new single - ‘Declare Independence’ will come out here on New Year’s Day, preceded by a Michel Gondry-directed video which should be doing the rounds online by the 26th of November. Gondy previously worked with the singer on videos for ‘Hyperballad’ and ‘Army of Me’ - see the latter in evidence below:

Video: ‘Army of Me’

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ACTUALGASM

RockNRollMassacre | 19 Nov '07, 11:37 | X | Reply

No Scotland???

gutted

cameron78 | 19 Nov '07, 11:38 | X | Reply

Is she likely to just play Volta?

because it's yet to grow on me :(

MirriLondon @RockNRollMassacre | 19 Nov '07, 11:39 | X | Reply

"including a show on Valentines day at the Hammersmith Apollo in London."

isn't Valentine's Day...in February?

moriarty | 19 Nov '07, 11:40 | X | Reply

Fucking £36!

36 ENGLISH POUNDS!!!!

JGJug | 19 Nov '07, 11:44 | X | Reply

FOOORRRTTYYYYY???

That's a lot... but I want to go so much...

Spicer | 19 Nov '07, 11:44 | X | Reply

Haha

DiSromantics!

s1m0n @moriarty | 19 Nov '07, 11:59 | X | Reply

hmm

chris corsano hasn't played with sonic youth has he? maybe live but not on record. i know he's done things with kim and thurston but it just seemed a bit odd to label him as (sonic youth)

Jamie_Summers | 19 Nov '07, 11:59 | X | Reply

It's been moved

leap year

TheBoyDeadly @moriarty | 19 Nov '07, 12:04 | X | Reply

What

happened to Scotland. gutted she isn't playing here.

pablo1 | 19 Nov '07, 12:04 | X | Reply

whoa

I love Bjork, but enough to fork out 40 squids.

Not sure...

thedailygrowl @pablo1 | 19 Nov '07, 12:26 | X | Reply

I wonder if this is

an attempt to derail eBay resales. Maybe the thinking is that if the face value is £40 then it's less likely the price will be driven much higher on eBay.

The thinking being, if it was £20 face value, then I might buy 2 and flog one for a profit - but at £40 I'm less likely to take the risk.

That said, given the crazy prices MBV tickets are already hitting (for a show in 6 months' time!) then I reckon this theory is a non-starter.

Or it could be something to do with supply chain problems on the World Puffin Market...

slim_cop @thedailygrowl | 19 Nov '07, 12:35 | X | Reply

Sucks eh...

gutted + 1

twentyhertz @cameron78 | 19 Nov '07, 12:37 | X | Reply

Hmmm.... nope.

I reckon its to make money. Bjork knows all those dates will sell out.

berksy @slim_cop | 19 Nov '07, 12:59 | X | Reply

gutted + 2

first Italy, then Israel & Macedonia, now Iceland! >:(

BakerStreetSaxSolo @twentyhertz | 19 Nov '07, 13:33 | X | Reply

Does anyone know if these will be seated or not?

Hopefully not but I know Hammersmith can be. Also does anyone know what sheffield city hall is like as a venue?

Even though these are still pretty pricey still going to try for these I think.

black_rooster | 19 Nov '07, 14:17 | X | Reply

I'm...

sure the photo credit was on here last time i looked?

Anyhoo back to the subject - gutted she's paying Hammersmith again - saw her there before and it was odd seeing her live whilst seated. She was of course amazing which made up for it a little.

Gutted its so expensive though.

Lucyjay @black_rooster | 19 Nov '07, 15:39 | X | Reply

Is it just me

that can't seem to register? :(

Spicer | 19 Nov '07, 17:29 | X | Reply

Nope.

Jook @Spicer | 19 Nov '07, 19:41 | X | Reply

I'm with..

the "36 ENGLISH POUNDS!" remark, I'm thinking twice now... and I now what you mean sim about the mbv tickets. I was disgusted at how many had already made it on there less than 12 hours after it went on sale. Disgusting!

explosive_answers @Spicer | 19 Nov '07, 19:45 | X | Reply

WOO HOO

two tickets booked. and no need to register. silly rabbit.

hoonbot | 20 Nov '07, 09:04 | X | Reply

40 fucking quid!

Jeezy bloody creezy. I love her but not that much

grundylezimbra | 20 Nov '07, 12:11 | X | Reply

hear hear to the actualgasm

I've been waiting a very long time for this (well, since I was old enough to realise Bjork is a living genius) anyhow, thank God! Seeing her live will make me feel a lot better for the fact I had to watch her Glastonbury performace from my sofa. And it's funny, cos I thought £20 was too much for M.I.A.'s London shows but I'm actually happy with paying £40 for Bjork... maybe it's cos she's more established... and hell you get the brass band too! Woo yeah!