- Music
- 31 Jan 18
Gaz Coombes has announced a series of European live dates, including a gig at The Academy in Dublin, to support his forthcoming third solo album, 'World’s Strongest Man', which will be released on the Hot Fruit/Caroline International label on 4 May.
Gaz will play the following show:
Mon Apr 9th Nochtspeicher, Hamburg, Germany
Tue Apr 10th Bi Nuu, Berlin, Germany
Thu Apr 12th Rotown, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fri Apr 13th Orangerie Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Wed Apr 18th Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thu Apr 19th Blaa, Oslo, Norway
Fri Apr 20th Brooklyn Bar, Stockholm, Sweden
Thu May 17th The Garage, Glasgow
Fri May 18th Arts Club, Liverpool
Sat May 19th Church, Leeds
Mon May 21st O2 Institute 2, Birmingham
Tue May 22nd The Trinity Centre, Bristol
Wed May 23rd Palladium, London
Fri May 25th The Academy, Dublin
Tue May 29th La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
Gaz also plays a previously announced one-off, sold out show at London ULU on 28th February.
The above mainland European dates in April are solo shows; all other dates are full band.Tickets for the UK & Irish dates go on-sale at 10am Friday 2nd February from usual agents.
A presale will be available from 10am Wednesday 31st January for fans signed up via Gaz’s website. Sign up there for future gig pre-sales & exclusive offers.
Gaz Coombes has just released a video for the first single from World’s Strongest Man, Deep Pockets.
The self-directed, filmed and edited clip features Gaz undertaking one of the trippiest Uber-pool journeys from the back of a cab in Los Angeles.
Gaz says of the clip: “I shot the Deep Pockets video on a shoestring, mostly in LA at the end of 2017. The idea came from the lyrics & memories of weird night drives over the years - a never-ending car journey laced with paranoia, intermittent hallucinations & unexpected car pooling.
"I liked the idea of getting together with some fun, interesting people in a car at night, filming it all & just seeing what happened. It worked out well. They all did great.”
He says the new record was inspired variously by Grayson Perry’s The Descent of Man, Frank Ocean’s Blonde, Californian weed, British woodlands, unchecked toxic masculinity & hip-hop (and a whole lot more besides).