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Fun Lovin Criminals Announce September Tour

• 15th Apr 2010

Following a successful come back tour in March, Fun Lovin Criminals announce another string of UK dates for September, including Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 17th February.

Earlier this year the multi platinum funk soul brothers, with 4 Top 10 albums to their name, returned for the first time in five years with the album ‘Classic Fantastic’, a party album for a brand new decade featuring collaborations with Roots Manuva and Paul Kaye. The album, which was released on 1st March, burst out of the preceding gloom of the last five years with reviews citing a definitive return to form.

Well known for their raucous live shows, Fun Lovin Criminals wrapped up their Spring tour with a show stopping performance at a sold out Koko that earned them a 4 star review in The Times, who said ‘musically and spiritually this was a show by a band re-born.’

Huey Morgan has also been re-born as a TV and Radio personality, with his award winning ‘The Huey Show’ for 6 music, and the successful Sky 1 show ‘Pet Nation’ that he co hosts with Liza Tarbuck. Huey – who was recently described by The Times as ‘reformed hoodlum, pop star and the BBC’s new darling, Huey Morgan is a 21st-century gentleman’ – has just been nominated for another Sony Award for ‘Music Broadcaster Of The Year 2010’.

The band has embarked on this new chapter with a new philosophy. “There’s this thing called Noetics,” explains Huey. “Which says if everybody thinks the same good thoughts, good things will happen. Likewise, negative thoughts – it’s not rocket science. And we all want the same thing, to be a Fun Lovin’ Criminal. You have to go through hell to get to heaven and now we’re finally out from under a lot of our problems, it’s a brand new day. So let’s go out and do what we love to do.” It’s good to have them back.

Their new single ‘Mister Sun’ is released on 26th April, through Kilohertz Records.

UK TOUR DATES

2nd Sept The Palace Aldershot
3rd Sept The Plug Sheffield
4th Sept 53 Degrees Preston
5th Sept Tivoli Buckley
7th Sept City Hall Salisbury
8th Sept The Arena St Albans
10th Sept Picturedome Holmfirth
12th Sept Empire Middlesborough
14th Sept Engine Shed Lincoln
15th Sept UEA Norwich
16th Sept Junction Cambridge
17th Sept Shepherd’s Bush Empire London
18th Sept Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton