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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Announce 2023 UK Arena Tour
Tickets On General Sale From 9:00am BST, Friday 31st March Here
New Track ‘Dead To The World’ Out Now
Listen Here / Watch The Lyric Video Here
Taken From Forthcoming New Album ‘Council Skies’
Out 2nd June 2023 (via Sour Mash Records)
Available to Pre-Order Now Here
UK & American Tour Dates This Summer – European Dates To Follow
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today confirm 2023 headline arena dates across the UK, calling at Hull, London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and finishing in Liverpool on 21st December.
Tickets will be available for special pre-sale on Wednesday 29th March for fans who pre-order the forthcoming new album, ‘Council Skies’, via the official Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds STORE and on general ticket sale HERE from 9:00am BST Friday 31st March. These arena dates follow an already busy summer schedule for the band playing a string of outdoor venues across the country.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 2023 UK Arena Tour Dates:
30 August Hull Bonus Arena
14 December London OVO Arena Wembley
15 December Birmingham Utilita Arena
17 December Cardiff International Arena
18 December Leeds First Direct Arena
20 December Glasgow OVO Hydro
21 December Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
The tour announcement follows the release of ‘Dead To The World’, a remarkable new track taken from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ eagerly anticipated fourth studio album ‘Council Skies’, due for release 2nd June (via Sour Mash Records).
The epic ‘Dead To The World’ is “by some distance my favourite tune on the album,” Noel says. “It has this film noir vibe. It’s not like anything else I’ve ever done before. It’s very melancholic, but I like that. I’m a Gemini – I’m as up as I am down, and the trick is to meet somewhere in the middle and turn that into music.”
The release of ‘Dead To The World’ follows fan excitement as mysterious orchestral clips filmed by Noel himself at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, London emerged on social media at the beginning of the year. Watch here.
‘Dead To The World’ is one of several songs on the album that boast strings arranged by the hugely talented Rosie Danvers, a long-time High Flying Birds collaborator. Noel says “Rosie gets what I do. Spending a weekend recording strings in Abbey Road… that’s one of the great privileges in a musician’s life. It sounds majestic.”
Recent singles taken from the forthcoming album, ‘Pretty Boy’ and ‘Easy Now’, were met with overwhelmingly positive reactions by fans and media alike, including significant national radio support. Earlier this month Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds released The Cure’s Robert Smith’s remix of ‘Pretty Boy’, taking the single to a new spaced-out dimension.
‘Council Skies’, is available to pre-order now on CD, heavyweight vinyl with bonus 7”, LP picture disc plus various digital formats including a Dolby Atmos spatial audio version. The Robert Smith remix is featured on deluxe limited-edition triple vinyl and 2CD formats which also include a stunning live session version of ‘Live Forever’ and a remix from Pet Shop Boys. A printed handwritten lyric sheet of title track ‘Council Skies’ will be included with all album pre-orders via the official store.
The upcoming UK live run will mark Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ first UK shows since performing on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage in June 2022, delivering a career-spanning set to one of the weekend’s biggest crowds. The show was the culmination of a summer of acclaimed sold-out outdoor venues across the UK.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ December 2023 UK arena tour dates will follow an array of UK outdoor venue & festival performances, including a huge homecoming show at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park in August. The High Flying Birds have also confirmed a 26-date USA tour, co-headlining with US alternative rockers Garbage. The live dates begin in tandem with the release of ‘Council Skies’ on June 2nd and run throughout the summer. Tickets for the US tour and summer live performances are on sale now here.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds play the following outdoor headline UK & Irish shows this summer;
21 July Buckinghamshire – Pennfest
23 July Nottingham, Wollaton Park – Splendour In The Park Festival
28 July London, Crystal Palace Bowl – South Facing Festival
30 July Brighton – On The Beach
04 August Bingley Weekender
05 August Saffron Waldon, Essex – Audley End
19 August Monmouthshire, Caldicot Castle
20 August Sedgefield, Co Durham – Hardwick Festival
24 August Somerset, Taunton Vivary Park
26 August Manchester, Wythenshawe Park
27 August Dublin, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
01 September Sheffield, Don Valley Bowl – Rock N Roll Circus
Tickets available now here
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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Council Skies’ Deluxe Album Tracklisting;
Disc 1:
- I’m Not Giving Up Tonight
- Pretty Boy
- Dead To The World
- Open The Door, See What You Find
- Trying To Find A World That’s Been And Gone
- Easy Now
- Council Skies
- There She Blows!
- Love Is A Rich Man
- Think Of A Number
Disc 2:
- Don’t Stop…
- We’re Gonna Get There In The End
- Mind Games
- Pretty Boy (Instrumental)
- Dead To The World (Instrumental)
- Council Skies (Instrumental)
- Think Of A Number (Instrumental)
- I’m Not Giving Up Tonight (David Holmes Remix)
- Think Of A Number (Pet Shop Boys Magic Eye 12” Remix)
- Pretty Boy (Robert Smith Remix)
- Council Skies (The Reflex Revision)
- Flying On The Ground (Radio 2 Session, 08.09.21)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Radio 2 Session, 08.09.21)
- Live Forever (Radio 2 Session, 08.09.21)
