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Dreadzone Announce Autumn/Winter Tour

• 10th Sep 2010

Dreadzone, one of the UK's best live acts, have announced details of a massive autumn/winter tour.

They will bring the sounds of their critically acclaimed recent album Eye On The Horizon, alongside classic hits such as Little Britain and Captain Dread to 27 towns and cities across the UK throughout October, November and December 2010.

The Dreadzone story began back in 1980s in West London with the fall out that came after the legendary Clash split. Mick Jones recruited Greg Dread (Drums) and Leo Williams (Bass) as the rhythm section of his new band, Big Audio Dynamite. When B.A.D went their separate ways, Greg and Leo formed Dreadzone and have never looked back.

Alan McGee's Creation Records released Dreadzone's groundbreaking debut 360, which led to them supporting Oasis at their era-defining shows at Knebworth and Loch Lomond. Their follow-up, the seminal Second Light, brought Dreadzone well and truly into the limelight and received massive support from John Peel, who included the album in his top ten favourite albums of all time, and 6 of it’s tracks in his 1995 festive fifty. It also spawned a top 20 hit Little Britain which has since gone on to acquire cult status worldwide.

15 years, 6 albums, hundreds of festival performances and thousands of gigs later, Dreadzone are still going strong, and still receiving critical acclaim for their groundbreaking albums and live performances. Their recently released album Eye On The Horizon received extensive positive coverage worldwide, with Rock N Reel magazine declaring it “A minor modern masterpiece”, and The Sun declaring that the band's “Fire brand mix of dace energised dub still has power”.

Dreadzone are Greg Dread, original bassmaster Leo Williams, the unmistakable MC Spee, legendary Studio One vocalist Earl 16 alongside Chris Compton on guitar and Chris Oldfield on technology.

Having remixed Dreadzone’s most recent single Yeah Man (which received some serious airplay, including Pendulum dropping it as part of their Essential Mix on Radio 1), 2 rising stars in the music scene She Is Danger and Engine-Earz will support Dreadzone on the Eye On The Horizon UK tour.

She Is Danger's self-released debut Hurt You was NME Radio's Single Of The Week, and their remixes of Gorillaz, Groove Armada, Ellie Goulding, and Delphic have earned them spins by the likes of Annie Mac, Rob Da Bank, Annie Nightingale, Eddie Temple Morris, Nic Harcourt, and more.

Engine-Earz Experiment is a UK-based musical collective born out of the Dubstep scene, created by multi-instrumentalist/producer Prashant Mistry. Fans range from Nitin Sawhney and Lisa Gerrard through to Enter Shikari and Basement Jaxx. Prash's recent remixes include the likes of Sean Paul, Basement Jaxx, Skitz, Sway and ODB, and as a DJ he has performed alongside Chase and Status, Shy FX, Caspa, Skream, Rodigan, Rusko, Benga and now Dreadzone to name but a few.

DREADZONE Eye On The Horizon Tour 2010
with support from
ENGINE-EARZ EXPERIMENT (6th October – 14th November) & SHE IS DANGER (18th November – 12th December)

September
Thurs 30 Belfast Empire 0844 277 4455 link

October
Weds 6 Middlesbrough Empire 01642 253553 link
Thurs 7 Glasgow Oran Mor 0141 357 6200 link

Fri 8 Leeds West Indian Centre 0113 243 6743 link
Sat 9 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms 0131 225 2564 link
Sun 10 Hebden Bridge Trades Club 01422 845265 link
Weds 27 Cambridge Junction 01223 511 511 link
Thurs 28 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 0871 3100 000 link
Fri 29 Sheffield Leadmill 0114 221 2828 link
Sat 30 Southampton The Brook 023 8055 5366 link

November
Thurs 11 Poole Mr Kyps 01202 748945 link
Fri 12 Exeter Lemon Grove 01392 263518 link
Sat 13 Falmouth Princess Pavilion 01326 211222 link
Sun 14 Plymouth The Hippo 01752 223737 link
Thurs 18 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 023 9286 3911 link
Fri 19 Oxford o2 Academy 2 0844 477 2000 link
Sat 20 Milton Keynes The Pitz 01908 660392 link

December
Weds 1 Leamington The Assembly 01926 52300 link
Thurs 2 Norwich Waterfront 01603 508050 link
Fri 3 Bury The Met 0161 761 2216 link
Sat 4 Bristol Trinity 0117 929 9008 link
Weds 8 London Scala 020 7833 2022 link
Thurs 9 Birmingham o2 Academy 2 0844 477 2000 link
Fri 10 Kendal Brewery Arts Centre 01539 725133 link
Sat 11 Inverness Ironworks 0871 789 4173 link
Sun 12 York The Duchess 01904 641413 link