Ed Sheeran has announced details of next UK tour

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added: 24 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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2011's UK breakthrough star Ed Sheeran has announced details of his next UK tour, set to take place in October/November 2012. The run of dates will kick off at London's Hammersmith Apollo on October 15, followed by shows in Newport, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Doncaster, Hull, Blackpool, Newcastle and Edinburgh, before finishing up at Glasgow's Barrowlands on November 14.

The Suffolk-raised 20-year-old released his acclaimed debut album '+' in September 2011 and he hasn't looked back since. The album, which is now triple platinum with over 900,000 sales, debuted at #1 in the official UK charts upon release and reclaimed the #1 title at the turn of the year. Furthermore, Ed has received the most amount of BRIT Awards nominations this year, for 'Best Male', 'Best Breakthrough', 'Best Single', and 'Best Album' , with the ceremony taking place at London's O2 Arena on February 21st. In addition to this, Ed received nods from iTunes ('Best Newcomer 2011'), BT Digital Music Awards ('Breakthrough Artist of the Year'), BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards ('Best British Single') and Q Awards ('Breakthrough Artist').

Last year saw the release of the massive UK top 5 singles, 'The A Team', 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You' and 'Lego House'. No doubt the 'flame-haired guitar genius' will continue this trend when he releases his new single 'Drunk' on February 27th.

Full UK dates:

October
Mon 15 London Hammersmith Apollo
Sat 20 Newport Newport Centre
Sun 21 Bournemouth Windsor HALL
Mon 22 Plymouth Pavilion
Sun 28 Birmingham Ballroom
Wed 31 Nottingham Nottingham Arena
November
Thu 1 Manchester Apollo
Mon 5 Doncaster Doncaster Dome
Wed 7 Hull Hull Arena
Thu 8 Blackpool Empress Ballroom
Sat 10 Newcastle City Hall
Mon 12 Edinburgh Usher Hall
Wed 14 Glasgow Barrowlands

Tickets go on sale Wednesday 25th Jan at 9am here.

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Biffy Clyro reveal double album details

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added: 18 Jan 2012 // by: Noise11 

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Ambitious, stadium-rocking Scots Biffy Clyro say their new double album will be rather eclectic.

The trio broke through in 2010 with their single 'Many Of Horror' (from their fifth studio album, 2009's Only Revolutions) hitting the UK top ten and getting covered by X-Factor winner Matt Cardle as 'When We Collide'.

They've been touring the world with acts like Foo Fighters and Metallica and playing monster rock festivals while also preparing their follow-up album, which has now been confirmed as a double album.

Frontman Simon Neil told BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, that it will be a 20-song double album which will include keyboards, strings, 'Phil Collins-type' electronic beats, and even veers into a mariachi sound.

Neil said, 'It sounds dangerous when you say it out loud but we're trying to explore writing songs in a different manner,' although he did reassure fans that 'We're not going to throw every song we've ever done on it ' it's not that kind of double album.'

There is still no prospective title or release date for it, but the band have been confirmed for the Isle Of Wight Festival in June so it would be auspicious to have new material out by then.

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