The Coral’s first headline tour in over three years kicks off in March 2022, coinciding with the reissue of the band’s self-titled, debut album, released on Fri 4 March 2022 on Run On Records in assoc. with Modern Sky. Playing the album in full over twelve UK-wide nights, followed by other classics and fan favourites, The Coral have confirmed supports across all dates as below:
March 2022
Thu 3 Sheffield, Leadmill + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Fri 4 Birmingham, O2 Institute + Cut Glass Kings
Sat 5 Manchester, Albert Hall + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Thu 10 London, O2 Forum Kentish Town + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Fri 11 Bristol, Marble Factory + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Sat 12 Oxford, O2 Academy + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Thu 17 Leeds, Beckett Students Union + Cut Glass Kings and Marvin Powell
Fri 18 Nottingham, The Level + The Dream Machine and Louis Croft
Sat 19 Glasgow, Barrowland + Cut Glass Kings
Thu 24 Newcastle, Riverside + Cut Glass Kings
Fri 25 Liverpool, The Invisible Wind Factory + Cut Glass Kings and Rianne Downey
Sat 26 Liverpool, The Invisible Wind Factory + Brooke Combe and The Dream Machine
All remaining tickets for The Coral’s 20th Anniversary Tour are available now via www.gigsandtours.com and www.ticketmaster.co.uk
The Coral was originally released on Monday 29 July 2002 and, with the help of the singles Dreaming Of You and Goodbye, catapulted the band to mainstream success at the first attempt, landing a Mercury Prize-nomination and Platinum-certfication.
Remastered from the original mixes and reissued on standard and special-edition collectors’ vinyl pressings, as well as extended CD, cassette and digital formats, the album also features two, unreleased, never-before-heard-tracks, She’s The Girl For Me and Tumble Graves. Produced by album producer, Ian Broudie, as part of the 2001 album recording sessions, they appear on an all-formats bonus disc, complete with a singles B-sides collection and the band’s pre-album EP The Oldest Path.
To set the scene for this year’s 20th Anniversary celebrations The Coral also released the remastered audio and video for their April Fools Day 2002 single, Skeleton Key. The frenetic freak-out jam raised-eyebrows as the band, then aged between just 18 and 21 years of age and canonned them into public concsiousness.
