Red Guitars: Tour dates revealed
HULL’S FINEST: Red Guitars. Details of their reunion tour were announced today. Picture credit: Syd Shelton
Legendary Hull band Red Guitars have announced details of their eagerly-awaited reunion tour - including a date at the city’s Adelphi club on Saturday, April 23 next year.
Tickets for the seven-date UK tour go on sale at 9am on Friday, and will be available from organisers AEG Presents here.
Interest in the tour has been huge since The Hull Story revealed in April that the iconic 80s band - one of the finest and most successful groups ever to emerge from Hull - were reforming and would tour again.
The tour marks 40 years since the release of the band’s totemic single, Good Technology, which has proven to have had remarkably prophetic lyrics.
All the dates are in April 2022. The first show will be at The Old Woollen in Leeds on April 19, with the tour concluding at O2 Institute 3 in Birmingham on April 30.
The band will be hitting the road with their original line-up, with the addition of old band friend Jos Allen on guitar.
Red Guitars
They have promised to perform most of the songs from their seminal debut album Slow To Fade, which was released in 1984.
Shedding light on how the tour came about, and what fans can expect, bassist Lou Duffy-Howard said: “We were contacted by Steve Homer, CEO of AEG Presents, who are a big worldwide event promotion company.
“They represent the likes of Nick Cave, The Who, Blondie, and festivals such as Coachella and The Eden Sessions. He asked if we’d be up for a tour. We thought about it and the answer was … yes!
“It will be great to play in cities where I have friends I haven’t seen for a while, Glasgow, and London amongst them, as well as the gig in our band hometown, Hull.
“We had so much to choose from including some new songs that we’ve jammed over the years. But it’s most likely that we’ll include all the singles and all the tracks from our album Slow to Fade.”
Red Guitars were formed around the pairing of Jeremy Kidd (vocals) and Hallam Lewis (guitarist).
Red Guitars at Hull Tower in December 1983
Initially cutting their teeth playing benefit shows for a series of left-wing causes, the band quickly built a loyal following before launching an assault on the charts with a series of singles via their own Self Drive Records label that would see them become nationally renowned.
Proving an instant hit with their debut single, the quintet shifted an impressive 60,000 copies of the self-released Good Technology, before going-on to top the Independent Charts with consecutive No 1s - with the classic cuts Marimba Jive and Steeltown.
Forging their own sound with a unique mix of infectious rock and African rhythms, the band quickly earned support from the tastemaker titles of the time, including cult 1980s Channel 4 music TV show The Tube, and the BBC's Whistle Test.
They also played a number of memorable sessions for BBC Radio legend John Peel. The band were also notably enjoyed by thousands when supporting The Smiths on their breakthrough tour.
Frontman Jeremy Kidd announced his departure soon after the release of Slow To Fade, with Red Guitars disbanding two years later.
Now reformed for their first tour since their 80s prime, the Red Guitars are set to thrill fans old and new with their complete and original line-up of vocalist Jeremy Kidd, lead guitarist Hallam Lewis, drummer Matt Higgins, rhythm guitarist John Rowley, and Lou Duffy-Howard on bass.
The full tour dates are:
RED GUITARS 2022 TOUR
19th April 2022 - The Old Woollen, Leeds
21st April 2022 – Night & Day Café, Manchester
22nd April 2022 – The Attic at the Garage, Glasgow
23rd April 2022 – The New Adelphi Club, Hull
28th April 2022 – Green Door Store, Brighton
29th April 2022 – 100 Club, London
30th April 2022 – O2 Institute 3, Birmingham
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