Marina and The Diamonds reveals UK and Ireland tour plans
Marina and The Diamonds has at long last announced UK dates to celebrate the release of acclaimed third record FROOT.
She's been peddling her wares across the pond for a few months, and performed the odd European show - including an intimate London Oslo show - but until now there'd been no word of a tour.
When we spoke to her last year, Marina Diamandis spoke of her ambitious live plans:
"I want to create a cyber garden on stage... like an electric orchard with these huge orange trees. I've already got some grapevines that glow. I want the merch stalls to be like a market, so the T-shirts are in little crates, and have fruit punch available... it's a world I can't wait to get into and build. We're even thinking of having life-sized fruits on stage... but like disco ball versions.
"So we'd have this massive bunch of cherries but it's a working, turning disco ball. I want it to work anywhere, from somewhere that's five hundred capacity to somewhere that's five thousand."
FROOT is out now on Atlantic - and you know what? We loved it.
Tickets for the upcoming shows go on sale this Friday (10 July) at 9am. Details of European shows are to follow.
Watch the video for "I'm A Ruin" below, and then check out the upcoming tour UK/Ireland dates afterwards.
November
20 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge
21 - O2 Academy, Bournemouth
23 - The Ritz, Manchester
24 - O2 Academy, Newcastle
25 - O2 ABC, Glasgow
27 - The Institute, Birmingham
28 - Great Hall, Cardiff
December
1 - The Limelight, Belfast
2 - Academy, Dublin
6 - Palladium, London
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