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Tricky Announces New Single

• 6th Oct 2010

Tricky is to release Ghetto Stars as the second single taken from his critically acclaimed ninth album, Mixed Race. Ghetto Stars will be available on 7” (RUG386) and via digital download (RUG386D) on 29TH November.

Ghetto Stars is a dark, tense and heavy track about the reality of the gangster lifestyle, too often glamourised in music. Tricky tells it like it is, “Ghetto Stars don’t go far, ghetto traps locked behind bars” and “…riding in Zephyrs while my Nan plays the bingo.” The track features vocals from Tricky’s latest muse, Franky Riley, who toured as Tricky’s live vocalist and co-writes here for the first time.

Tricky will be touring the UK this October with a date at Koko in London on October 22nd. Full dates are as follows:

Monday 18-Oct-10 Nottingham Rock City
Tuesday 19-Oct-10 Glasgow Arches
Thursday 21-Oct-10 Sheffield Leadmill
Friday 22-Oct-10 London Koko
Saturday 23-Oct-10 Portsmouth Wedgewood rooms

Support on all dates comes from TERRY LYNN (link) and WILDLIFE! (link), tickets available from: link