Orlando Weeks announces UK headline ‘Hop Up’ tour and teases new music

nme.com:

Orlando Weeks has shared dates of a UK headline tour – check out the full itinerary and ticket details below.The dates will support his second solo album, ‘Hop Up’ which was released in January, and follows the former Macabees frontman’s 2020 debut, ‘A Quickening‘.

Weeks also toured the record earlier this year, which included a “spellbinding” performance at London’s Barbican Centre in March, which NME called “captivating” in a five-star review.The new run of shows kicks off on November 17 and includes a stop at London’s Heaven venue on November 23.

Tickets will be available here tomorrow (May 19) at 10am.“I’m going to be heading back out on tour this November,” Weeks shared in a post. “Top top top venues in lots of the cities I didn’t get to on the tour just been.” He went on to share that “the new record is pretty much written” and “by November it’ll be done.”Weeks also promised the added dates would feature new songs as well as tracks from ‘Hop Up’ and ‘A Quickening’, adding: “If I don’t see you in a festival field this summer, then I’ll see you in November”A post shared by @orlandoweeksOrlando Weeks tour dates are as follows:NOVEMBER17 – Bristol, Thekla18 – Oxford, O2 Academy 219 – Norwich, Arts Centre21 – Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut22 – Liverpool, Arts Club23 – London, Heaven25 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms26 – York, The Crescent Community Venue27 – Manchester, Gorilla“It was quick, which often it isn’t,” Weeks previously told NME about his experience of writing ‘Hop Up’. “I didn’t feel stuck at any point or on the lyrics or any song sections.