will perform songs on The Dermot O'Leary's Show on BBC Radio 2 on
Saturday April 21st between 3:15-3:45pm.
Jones will perform songs from his first two studio albums "Human's
Lib" and "Dream Into Action" – the same albums that he is performing
in their entirety on his current UK tour.
Read the official UK tour online press release here:
http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/howardjones/tour.htm
Howard Jones April 2012 UK dates as follows:
Friday April 13th O2 Academy Liverpool
Saturday April 14th O2 Academy Birmingham
Tuesday April 17th O2 Academy Newcastle
Wednesday April 18th O2 Academy Glasgow
Friday April 20th O2 Academy Bournemouth
Saturday April 21st O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Howard Jones will embark on a nationwide UK tour on Wednesday 11th
April at the O2 Academy Bristol. This will be the first time that
Howard will perform his first two studio albums Human's Lib and Dream
Into Action back to back, live in their entirety, on a full-scale
nationwide UK tour.
Human's Lib was first released on March 17th 1984. The album peaked at
number 1 in the UK charts and spent 57 weeks in the top 40. The album
includes the hit singles What Is Love?, New Song, Pearl In The Shell
and Hide & Seek (the song Howard performed at Live Aid).
Dream Into Action followed, featuring the hit singles Like To Get To
Know You Well, Things Can Only Get Better, Look Mama, Life In One Day
and the US number 1 No One Is To Blame.
Howard will perform both albums in full at every show accompanied by
Robbie Bronnimann on keyboards and sequencing and Jonathan Atkinson on
electronic percussion. The show combines retro synths with cutting
edge technology combined with live visuals.
Howard Jones played his 2011 two-album show at the Sandy Amphitheatre
in Salt Lake City on 9th July 2011. The promoters were hoping for 1500
ticket sales but it turned out to be a complete sellout with 2,750
tickets sold and 300 turned away. He encored with the Killers' 'Human'
as a tribute to Salt Lake's Brandon Flowers who had apparently been in
line for a Howard Jones in-store signing back in the nineties.
On 3rd September, Howard drew the biggest audience of the 2011 season
to the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas.
It was in 1983 that Howard Jones first burst upon the contemporary
music scene with his very English song-writing and pioneering
synthesizers.
Anyone who was around in the mid to late eighties will remember those
high energy gigs and his first two albums Human's Lib and Dream into
Action. They lived in the higher reaches of the album charts in the
UK, USA, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia and many other
countries in the 1984-86 period and the hits kept coming ... New Song,
What is Love?, Pearl in the Shell, Hide and Seek,(which he performed
at Live Aid in 1985), Like to Get to Know You Well, Look Mama, Things
Can only Get Better, Everlasting Love and the quintessential No One is
To Blame, which reached No.1 in the US.
Now Howard Jones has re-mastered those first two classic albums
'Human's Lib' and 'Dream into Action' and played them both live in
their entirety for the first time on November 6th 2010 at the IndigO2
in London's O2 Arena Complex. This two-album show is being repeated
throughout 2011 and 2012 at selected venues. The re-mastered albums
are available from www.howardjones.com. A special re-mastered box set
of the 12" mixes was released in March 2011 and a DVD of the IndigO2
concert will be available soon.
A classically trained pianist, Jones applied his technique to the
early synths particularly the Roland Juno 60, the Jupiter 8 and the
Moog Prodigy. He also pioneered the classic Roland 808 drum machine
and the Sequential Pro-One. In the early days he was triggering
sequencers live on stage whilst playing and singing, something that no
one had done before.
These days he still operates on the cutting edge of today's technology
and has been one of the leading exponents of the Roland Fantom G8 and
the Roland V-piano. Many contemporary giants of the dance world have
shown interest in working with Howard which has resulted in tracks
such as 'And do you Feel Scared?' with Eric Prydz and 'Into the Dark'
with Ferry Corsten.
Jones continues to tour extensively and will be playing multiple dates
and festivals in 2012 with Robbie Bronnimann on live
sequencing/sampling and effects using Ableton Live and various
controllers, and Jonathan Atkinson on electronic drums.
Always one to take chances, Jones continues to write great songs
inspired by his Buddhist beliefs as is evident on his latest studio
album 'Ordinary Heroes' which features a string quartet on every track
and one of the best Welsh male voice choirs in the world The Morriston
on the song 'Soon You'll Go'.
2012 will mark the return of one of the true eighties icons and
godfathers of modern electronic dance music in full electric mode. If
you were too young the first time around it'll be a chance to find out
where all those beats and sounds came from, and if you were around
it'll bring all those memories flooding back.
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