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Bonnie “”Prince”” Billy UK And European Tour

• 9th Apr 2010

On 29 March 2010 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang (Emmett Kelly and Shahzad Ismaily) released ‘The Wonder of The World’ album on Domino on CD and vinyl formats.

The three have perviously recorded together for the album ‘Lie Down In The Light’, whilst Bonnie and Emmett have also recorded together with others on the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy albums ‘The Letting Go’ and ‘Beware’ as well as the EP ‘CHIJIMI’. For this new album of songs, Bonny Billy and The Cairo Gang together have built a bridge forward, assembled with riffs and bits from Emmett Kelly’s guitar and the lyricism of Bonny’s heart. But mostly, ‘The Wonder Show of the World’ was, in it’s making, about trust.

It’s a record made eye-to-eye in a room, close and careful, by and for a few men who wanted to be together, who wanted to make music that sounds as good to listen to as it did to make, and who in doing so forged something new in space, the wonder of you and of them.

MAY
25th COPENHAGEN – VEGA
29th LILLEHAMMER – NORSK LITTERATUR FESTIVAL @ MAIHAUGSALEN
31st BERGEN – NATTJAZZ @ SARDINEN USF

JUNE
1st BERGEN – NATTJAZZ @ SARDINEN USF
5th LISBON – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MUSEUM
6th AVEIRO – TEATRO AVEIRENSE

JULY
27th BELFAST – EMPIRE
28th DUBLIN – WHELANS
29th DUBLIN – WHELANS
30th GALWAY – ROISIN DUBH
31st SKIBBEREEN – CORK X SOUTHWEST

AUGUST
2nd COVENTRY – ST JOHN’S CHURCH
3rd MANCHESTER – MANCHESTER CATHERDRAL
4th LONDON – 02 SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE