Renowned guitarist Walter Trout has been playing the blues for five decades. Living hard and fast, the former Canned Heat man almost paid the ultimate price a decade ago, when complications from a much needed liver transplant left him brain damaged and unable to speak or walk, much less play. Making a miraculous recovery, he returned to the stage in 2015 and has been a mainstay ever since. "It was very emotional, and there was all kinds of weeping and hugging", he tells us on a Zoom call from his home in Denmark. Talking his resurrection, 2024 album 'Broken', and his love for Rory Gallagher, we caught with the bluesman. The outsider; Eamon O'Neill.
Hi Walter, how are you doing today?
You know, I'm still alive. Every day is a bonus. I feel great. It's good to be here.
I'm chatting to you from Ireland, and you're famously a Strat player, just like our own Rory Gallagher.
Oh my God, I loved him. Are you kidding? That guy was in a class of his own man. I have done the Rory Gallagher Festival [in Ballyshanon, Co. Donegal], I think, three or four times, and I always come out and do 'I Wonder Who', 'Bullfrog Blues'. I tell a story about him, that I actually got to meet him and do a show with him in Bonn, Germany when he was near the end of his life. And, you know, he also had liver problems, right, which I've been through, and I remember he was very ill, and he was in the dressing room, and he was very kind of bloated and puffed up - which is what liver disease will do to you; it bloats you and you swell up - and he was not doing well. And I thought; "my god, I wonder how he's going to play a gig", and then he went on and played for three hours. It was incredibly inspirational. He did not let his illness stop him. He got up there and played with energy and commitment and inspiration, and it inspired me. And actually, when I got really sick with my liver, I thought about him.
It's amazing how your stories are quite entwined because of that. You're both, as I say, Fender Strat players, blues players, etc.
He was something else, man.
You just finished a US run of dates; how was it?
The US run was great. I mean, it's only taken me fifty years, but I'm finally getting some recognition in my own country. You know, you do something the same way for fifty years, and all of a sudden it catches on.
You're coming back to the UK later this month, and you're such a regular visitor; what's it like for you to be returning?
You know, I love coming back to the UK. I've been bringing my band there every year for thirty-four years, except, of course, during the pandemic and during the time that I was in the hospital where I couldn't play. But and the people still come out to hear my band. They come out to see me play. They buy my records. I get played on the radio. I mean, I'm grateful for the people of the UK, and I have a deep love for them, and I always look forward to getting back. I wish I had more gigs in Ireland. I really do.
You released your new album 'Broken' earlier this year, and it's another great collection; it's your twentieth studio album as a solo artist, isn't it?
As far as albums go, this was album number thirty-one, but there are some live albums in there. I just love what I do, and I'm a driven artist. I'm hoping that in February of next year, I'm going to record album thirty-two. I mean, I'm already starting to formulate it in my head, and I've been recording some musical ideas and writing down some lyrics and stuff, so still forging ahead.
I wanted to chat about the brilliant video and the song 'I've Had Enough' with Dee Snider. There's so much energy in it; I was watching closely while you were singing the first verse, and Dee can hardly contain himself. He's amped and ready to go!
You know, that guy is an amazing person, and he's become a really dear friend. He is a force of nature, and he is also a brilliant, knowledgeable man. You know, people will look at old clips of Twisted Sister and I need to tell you, Dee has never in his life had a drink of alcohol or taken a drug; he is a complete opposite guy than what people think and what he portrays, but he is a wild man rocker, right? But he does it. He's a family man. He's been with the same wife for years, and they have a beautiful family, lots of kids.
How did the collaboration with Dee come about?
We're friends, and he sent me a message; "hey, you're doing a new album?" I said; "yeah, I am man, and I'm in LA. You're in LA?", and he goes; "well, I'd like to sing with you", and I went; "hey, that'd be great". He said to me; "I'd like to come in and sing the blues", and I went home, and I sat down, and I thought about it, and I thought, now I get to do the blues all the time, and I get to play with great blues musicians, but if I'm going to get the chance to work with a rock icon like that, I want to rock instead of him doing what I do! I want to do what he does; I want the chance to rock, man, so I called him and I said; "look, I want to write a rock song. I want us to rock", and I thought about his hit, 'We're Not Gonna Take it', and I thought; "well, 'I've had enough'; that's kind of along the same lines".
'I've Had Enough' is a title that slots in nicely.
Once I came up with the title, it took about ten minutes to write the song. I did a demo, just a home demo with a drum machine, and I sent it to him, and he loved it, and he sent me an email, and he said; "I just heard the song", and he goes, quote; "I have fucking goosebumps!" So he came in and we did the song together, and you can tell, he is a bundle of energy, man! He's in great shape. There's no way that guy is in his seventies! He's an incredible force of nature, and I loved working with him and the video.
The video is a lot of fun.
I've got to say, my wife came up with a concept. She goes; "I have an idea. How about you're a working guy, and you punch out the time clock at the factory, and you go home, and you sit on your couch, and then you have this dream that you're a rock star and you're playing with Dee Snider?", and I went; "god, that's great". and so that's how we approached that. That was her vision for that video,
I love the cap that you wear in the video that says 'Make The Blues Great Again'; please tell me you're selling those on your merch stand!
That also was her idea, and she had the hat made, and right now, with the election going on, I don't want people to think I'm a Trumper, because I'm certainly not. I mean, it is a great hat, but I won't wear it in the States. It's too polarised over there.
Hopefully people can see the humour in it.
I was a little worried about wearing the hat and the video, and then I'm like; "hey, fuck it, man, I'm going to do it!". Maybe a year or two from now we might start selling them.
You know, I'm still alive. Every day is a bonus. I feel great. It's good to be here.
I'm chatting to you from Ireland, and you're famously a Strat player, just like our own Rory Gallagher.
Oh my God, I loved him. Are you kidding? That guy was in a class of his own man. I have done the Rory Gallagher Festival [in Ballyshanon, Co. Donegal], I think, three or four times, and I always come out and do 'I Wonder Who', 'Bullfrog Blues'. I tell a story about him, that I actually got to meet him and do a show with him in Bonn, Germany when he was near the end of his life. And, you know, he also had liver problems, right, which I've been through, and I remember he was very ill, and he was in the dressing room, and he was very kind of bloated and puffed up - which is what liver disease will do to you; it bloats you and you swell up - and he was not doing well. And I thought; "my god, I wonder how he's going to play a gig", and then he went on and played for three hours. It was incredibly inspirational. He did not let his illness stop him. He got up there and played with energy and commitment and inspiration, and it inspired me. And actually, when I got really sick with my liver, I thought about him.
It's amazing how your stories are quite entwined because of that. You're both, as I say, Fender Strat players, blues players, etc.
He was something else, man.
You just finished a US run of dates; how was it?
The US run was great. I mean, it's only taken me fifty years, but I'm finally getting some recognition in my own country. You know, you do something the same way for fifty years, and all of a sudden it catches on.
You're coming back to the UK later this month, and you're such a regular visitor; what's it like for you to be returning?
You know, I love coming back to the UK. I've been bringing my band there every year for thirty-four years, except, of course, during the pandemic and during the time that I was in the hospital where I couldn't play. But and the people still come out to hear my band. They come out to see me play. They buy my records. I get played on the radio. I mean, I'm grateful for the people of the UK, and I have a deep love for them, and I always look forward to getting back. I wish I had more gigs in Ireland. I really do.
You released your new album 'Broken' earlier this year, and it's another great collection; it's your twentieth studio album as a solo artist, isn't it?
As far as albums go, this was album number thirty-one, but there are some live albums in there. I just love what I do, and I'm a driven artist. I'm hoping that in February of next year, I'm going to record album thirty-two. I mean, I'm already starting to formulate it in my head, and I've been recording some musical ideas and writing down some lyrics and stuff, so still forging ahead.
I wanted to chat about the brilliant video and the song 'I've Had Enough' with Dee Snider. There's so much energy in it; I was watching closely while you were singing the first verse, and Dee can hardly contain himself. He's amped and ready to go!
You know, that guy is an amazing person, and he's become a really dear friend. He is a force of nature, and he is also a brilliant, knowledgeable man. You know, people will look at old clips of Twisted Sister and I need to tell you, Dee has never in his life had a drink of alcohol or taken a drug; he is a complete opposite guy than what people think and what he portrays, but he is a wild man rocker, right? But he does it. He's a family man. He's been with the same wife for years, and they have a beautiful family, lots of kids.
How did the collaboration with Dee come about?
We're friends, and he sent me a message; "hey, you're doing a new album?" I said; "yeah, I am man, and I'm in LA. You're in LA?", and he goes; "well, I'd like to sing with you", and I went; "hey, that'd be great". He said to me; "I'd like to come in and sing the blues", and I went home, and I sat down, and I thought about it, and I thought, now I get to do the blues all the time, and I get to play with great blues musicians, but if I'm going to get the chance to work with a rock icon like that, I want to rock instead of him doing what I do! I want to do what he does; I want the chance to rock, man, so I called him and I said; "look, I want to write a rock song. I want us to rock", and I thought about his hit, 'We're Not Gonna Take it', and I thought; "well, 'I've had enough'; that's kind of along the same lines".
'I've Had Enough' is a title that slots in nicely.
Once I came up with the title, it took about ten minutes to write the song. I did a demo, just a home demo with a drum machine, and I sent it to him, and he loved it, and he sent me an email, and he said; "I just heard the song", and he goes, quote; "I have fucking goosebumps!" So he came in and we did the song together, and you can tell, he is a bundle of energy, man! He's in great shape. There's no way that guy is in his seventies! He's an incredible force of nature, and I loved working with him and the video.
The video is a lot of fun.
I've got to say, my wife came up with a concept. She goes; "I have an idea. How about you're a working guy, and you punch out the time clock at the factory, and you go home, and you sit on your couch, and then you have this dream that you're a rock star and you're playing with Dee Snider?", and I went; "god, that's great". and so that's how we approached that. That was her vision for that video,
I love the cap that you wear in the video that says 'Make The Blues Great Again'; please tell me you're selling those on your merch stand!
That also was her idea, and she had the hat made, and right now, with the election going on, I don't want people to think I'm a Trumper, because I'm certainly not. I mean, it is a great hat, but I won't wear it in the States. It's too polarised over there.
Hopefully people can see the humour in it.
I was a little worried about wearing the hat and the video, and then I'm like; "hey, fuck it, man, I'm going to do it!". Maybe a year or two from now we might start selling them.
You also worked with Beth Hart on the really soulful, beautiful track 'Broken'; what was it like to work with her?
Well, she's one of a kind, man. I say this, we do that song every night, and I say, in my opinion, she's one of the greatest artists that ever existed on the planet. I wrote that song, again, with my wife. She contributed most of the lyrics, because I got kind of stuck. I was thinking about my days as a heroin addict and an alcoholic, and I was trying to write about it, and I got stuck, so she contributed most of the lyrics, but it was written with Beth in mind. I could hear her voice singing it with me. I sent her the demo, and she called and said; "yeah, I'm coming in and singing this with you", and she came in and she gave it everything she had, and we had a great day in the studio. Robbie Krieger, who's the guitar player from The Doors, he came in and hung out with us that day, and it, and she took that song to a whole different level. It was great working with her.
Well, she's one of a kind, man. I say this, we do that song every night, and I say, in my opinion, she's one of the greatest artists that ever existed on the planet. I wrote that song, again, with my wife. She contributed most of the lyrics, because I got kind of stuck. I was thinking about my days as a heroin addict and an alcoholic, and I was trying to write about it, and I got stuck, so she contributed most of the lyrics, but it was written with Beth in mind. I could hear her voice singing it with me. I sent her the demo, and she called and said; "yeah, I'm coming in and singing this with you", and she came in and she gave it everything she had, and we had a great day in the studio. Robbie Krieger, who's the guitar player from The Doors, he came in and hung out with us that day, and it, and she took that song to a whole different level. It was great working with her.
As we alluded to, you came through a liver transplant and brain damage just over a decade ago. What was that whole period like for you?
Well, I can tell you when you face death like that every day for months and you actually feel like you're going to come through it, it will rearrange a lot of your priorities, and it will give you a very different view of what's important in life and what's not. It is a very, very profound experience, emotionally, and as far as your outlook on things.
You recently posted on Facebook that it was on 3rd September 2014 that you first picked up the guitar again; what was the challenge of learning how to play again like?
When I came home I realised that I didn't know how to play the guitar anymore; it had been wiped clean because I had brain damage. I had lost the ability to speak, and I had to get speech therapy. I realised, and I actually said to my wife and kids; "if I never play again, at least I'll have time with you guys. I'll have life here for some time", and really it was my wife, again, who said; "well, you have to start over". She says; "you were put here to play music for people, and that's what you need to do". So I had to start over, and I taught myself all over again. It took me about a little over a year, and I worked on it every day for six or seven hours. When it's taken from you, something that you've done all your life, and something that has been the focus of your life, and then you work hard to get it back, it has even more meaning.
That must have been incredibly profound.
I realised then that there were many times in my life that I took it for granted. It was just something I could do. It was easy for me; "here's another gig", you know? I did 10,000 gigs, and I would realise that there were times even playing with somebody like John Mayall, where I'm on the stage, looking at my watch going; "you know, when do I get to the hotel room so I can watch TV?" or something, you know? I took it for granted, and when you get it back, you don't take it for granted anymore. When I get up there now, I have a a seriousness about it that I didn't have back then.
How long did it take before you realised; "this is happening. This is coming back. I can do it"?
It took a while. That took a long while because not only did it I have to figure out; "how do you play a G chord? How do you play a bar chord?", but I remember saying to my wife; "my fingers; this is the most painful thing I've ever done, just trying to press the string". I go; "I can't believe I ever did this". And she would show me videos of myself, and I'd go; "I can't relate to that guy. I can't do this. This is so painful and so hard to do", and she just kept saying; "No, you have to do it". And she she came up with a little whiteboard with a marker, and she had it in the living room, and she had the days on there, and every day that I really practiced, she'd draw a little guitar, and if I actually went out and took a walk and I did some other things that I needed to do, I'd get a gold star. I still have that whiteboard at home. I look at it and there's like a gold star, and then there's a little drawing of the guitar, so I know that that day, I took a walk, and I worked on the guitar. She didn't let me stop, god bless her.
What was the first gig back like?
Well, I hadn't been on a stage in over two years, and my wife, she manages my career also, and has done for thirty years, so instead of booking me going down to play at the corner pub - which is what most guys would do - she booked me at Royal Albert Hall in London. And that was really nerve wracking, because I didn't know what was going to happen. I hadn't been on the stage, but I can tell you that I counted to four, and when those guys came in behind me, I was like; "man, I'm home. I've done this 10,000 times. This is where I live. This is where I belong", and it felt joyous and beautiful and wonderful.
I would imagine that you had fans from all over the world coming to that, and fans who contributed to your recovery; it must have felt like was a lot of love in the room.
There was. It was very, very emotional. And there was Jools Holland, and there was Paul Jones, and a bunch of other people, and Eric Burdon, and they all came in the dressing room, and we were all kinds of weeping and hugging. It was really something.
Well, I can tell you when you face death like that every day for months and you actually feel like you're going to come through it, it will rearrange a lot of your priorities, and it will give you a very different view of what's important in life and what's not. It is a very, very profound experience, emotionally, and as far as your outlook on things.
You recently posted on Facebook that it was on 3rd September 2014 that you first picked up the guitar again; what was the challenge of learning how to play again like?
When I came home I realised that I didn't know how to play the guitar anymore; it had been wiped clean because I had brain damage. I had lost the ability to speak, and I had to get speech therapy. I realised, and I actually said to my wife and kids; "if I never play again, at least I'll have time with you guys. I'll have life here for some time", and really it was my wife, again, who said; "well, you have to start over". She says; "you were put here to play music for people, and that's what you need to do". So I had to start over, and I taught myself all over again. It took me about a little over a year, and I worked on it every day for six or seven hours. When it's taken from you, something that you've done all your life, and something that has been the focus of your life, and then you work hard to get it back, it has even more meaning.
That must have been incredibly profound.
I realised then that there were many times in my life that I took it for granted. It was just something I could do. It was easy for me; "here's another gig", you know? I did 10,000 gigs, and I would realise that there were times even playing with somebody like John Mayall, where I'm on the stage, looking at my watch going; "you know, when do I get to the hotel room so I can watch TV?" or something, you know? I took it for granted, and when you get it back, you don't take it for granted anymore. When I get up there now, I have a a seriousness about it that I didn't have back then.
How long did it take before you realised; "this is happening. This is coming back. I can do it"?
It took a while. That took a long while because not only did it I have to figure out; "how do you play a G chord? How do you play a bar chord?", but I remember saying to my wife; "my fingers; this is the most painful thing I've ever done, just trying to press the string". I go; "I can't believe I ever did this". And she would show me videos of myself, and I'd go; "I can't relate to that guy. I can't do this. This is so painful and so hard to do", and she just kept saying; "No, you have to do it". And she she came up with a little whiteboard with a marker, and she had it in the living room, and she had the days on there, and every day that I really practiced, she'd draw a little guitar, and if I actually went out and took a walk and I did some other things that I needed to do, I'd get a gold star. I still have that whiteboard at home. I look at it and there's like a gold star, and then there's a little drawing of the guitar, so I know that that day, I took a walk, and I worked on the guitar. She didn't let me stop, god bless her.
What was the first gig back like?
Well, I hadn't been on a stage in over two years, and my wife, she manages my career also, and has done for thirty years, so instead of booking me going down to play at the corner pub - which is what most guys would do - she booked me at Royal Albert Hall in London. And that was really nerve wracking, because I didn't know what was going to happen. I hadn't been on the stage, but I can tell you that I counted to four, and when those guys came in behind me, I was like; "man, I'm home. I've done this 10,000 times. This is where I live. This is where I belong", and it felt joyous and beautiful and wonderful.
I would imagine that you had fans from all over the world coming to that, and fans who contributed to your recovery; it must have felt like was a lot of love in the room.
There was. It was very, very emotional. And there was Jools Holland, and there was Paul Jones, and a bunch of other people, and Eric Burdon, and they all came in the dressing room, and we were all kinds of weeping and hugging. It was really something.
This is a really nerdy question guitar question, but do you still have all your classic guitars from your earlier days, or are they just tools for you?
I'm not a guy who looks to go out and collect guitars. I think they are tools now. I do have my old legendary beat up Strat, and that is home, locked up in a vault. I do have a few other Strats, and I have a couple of the Delaney guitar signature models, the Walter Trout signature model, and that's what I'll be playing in the UK when I come there in two weeks' time. I do have a Martin D-28 I bought when I was 14, but I'm not out to spend a quarter million dollars on a '54 Strat; I am of the opinion that the vintage guitar market is a little absurd to me.
What makes a good guitar, for you?
It's my opinion that the first thing you want in a guitar is it has to feel good; the feel of the neck. So you go to a guitar store, you can find yourself a Mexican Stratocaster, and you find it has a really good neck. Okay, there's the first thing you need. Now you buy yourself a set of Seymour Duncan Antiquities, the pickups, and you put those on that Mexican Strat, and you have a guitar that will play as good and sound as good as any '54 Strat, and you've probably spent four hundred, or five hundred bucks. I actually said that in a guitar magazine thirty years ago and I got death threats from guitar collectors.
So you're not precious about guitars?
I'm a one guitar guy. I come out and do the show with one guitar, but that that's just me; that doesn't have to be for everybody. But I was never somebody who could afford - especially in my younger days - to go out and buy some guitar that was thousands of dollars. When I bought my old Strat, the the famous one that's on the cover of all my records, I bought that in 1973, and I bought it right off the shelf, and with a case, it cost me $200, and it's still the best guitar I've ever played.
As we speak, Rory Gallagher's famous Fender Stratocaster [as well as other guitars he owned] is about to go up for auction; have you an opinion on that?
That guitar needs to stay in Ireland. I think that is an iconic piece of Irish musical history, because he did just play that guitar. That guitar is him, and he is an iconic Irish musical hero, very deservedly so, right? He did it with his music. He was not a pop star, he was not wearing sequined pants and doing choreography; he was an authentic, deeply emotional, committed blues rock player, the greatest your country's ever produced. I think he's in a league of his own, and that guitar needs to stay in your country. I don't know how; they put it in a museum or, I don't know, but I would hate for some collector to have it. There's some guitar collectors in America who who are billionaires, and they collect all these guitars, and they spend millions of dollars on these things, and then they they have it sitting in in a closet in their house, and they have people over, and they go; "look at this". It needs to be in Ireland, but that's just my opinion.
What does the future hold for Walter Trout?
We do the dates in the UK, then I go back to America to vote. I'm there for a couple of weeks and hoping for the best, and then I do a month in Europe, I think about ten countries. Then I have Christmas in Denmark with my wife and our three kids, and In January, my wife and I go to California and we're going to write a new album. Then in February, I should be recording album number thirty-two, and then I will keep touring. I love what I do. I don't want to stop. I hear guys bitch and they go; "it was a merry go round; you make an album and you tour, and you make an album and you tour...", and I go; "what are you complaining about? That's every kid's dream! Make an album and tour! What are they bitching about?!", you know? So that's what I'm going to keep doing, because I like it.
Blues-rock icon Walter Trout will begin his UK Tour on 16th October 2024. For ticketing, click here.
16 Oct – Opera House – Buxton, UK
17 Oct – Queens hall – Edinburgh, UK
18 Oct – The Glasshouse – Gateshead, UK
19 Oct – Picturedrome – Holmfirth, UK
22 Oct – Apex - Bury St Edmunds, UK
23 Oct – Cheese & Grain - Frome, UK
24 Oct - Town Hall – Birmingham, UK
25 Oct - Islington Assembly Hall – London, UK
I'm not a guy who looks to go out and collect guitars. I think they are tools now. I do have my old legendary beat up Strat, and that is home, locked up in a vault. I do have a few other Strats, and I have a couple of the Delaney guitar signature models, the Walter Trout signature model, and that's what I'll be playing in the UK when I come there in two weeks' time. I do have a Martin D-28 I bought when I was 14, but I'm not out to spend a quarter million dollars on a '54 Strat; I am of the opinion that the vintage guitar market is a little absurd to me.
What makes a good guitar, for you?
It's my opinion that the first thing you want in a guitar is it has to feel good; the feel of the neck. So you go to a guitar store, you can find yourself a Mexican Stratocaster, and you find it has a really good neck. Okay, there's the first thing you need. Now you buy yourself a set of Seymour Duncan Antiquities, the pickups, and you put those on that Mexican Strat, and you have a guitar that will play as good and sound as good as any '54 Strat, and you've probably spent four hundred, or five hundred bucks. I actually said that in a guitar magazine thirty years ago and I got death threats from guitar collectors.
So you're not precious about guitars?
I'm a one guitar guy. I come out and do the show with one guitar, but that that's just me; that doesn't have to be for everybody. But I was never somebody who could afford - especially in my younger days - to go out and buy some guitar that was thousands of dollars. When I bought my old Strat, the the famous one that's on the cover of all my records, I bought that in 1973, and I bought it right off the shelf, and with a case, it cost me $200, and it's still the best guitar I've ever played.
As we speak, Rory Gallagher's famous Fender Stratocaster [as well as other guitars he owned] is about to go up for auction; have you an opinion on that?
That guitar needs to stay in Ireland. I think that is an iconic piece of Irish musical history, because he did just play that guitar. That guitar is him, and he is an iconic Irish musical hero, very deservedly so, right? He did it with his music. He was not a pop star, he was not wearing sequined pants and doing choreography; he was an authentic, deeply emotional, committed blues rock player, the greatest your country's ever produced. I think he's in a league of his own, and that guitar needs to stay in your country. I don't know how; they put it in a museum or, I don't know, but I would hate for some collector to have it. There's some guitar collectors in America who who are billionaires, and they collect all these guitars, and they spend millions of dollars on these things, and then they they have it sitting in in a closet in their house, and they have people over, and they go; "look at this". It needs to be in Ireland, but that's just my opinion.
What does the future hold for Walter Trout?
We do the dates in the UK, then I go back to America to vote. I'm there for a couple of weeks and hoping for the best, and then I do a month in Europe, I think about ten countries. Then I have Christmas in Denmark with my wife and our three kids, and In January, my wife and I go to California and we're going to write a new album. Then in February, I should be recording album number thirty-two, and then I will keep touring. I love what I do. I don't want to stop. I hear guys bitch and they go; "it was a merry go round; you make an album and you tour, and you make an album and you tour...", and I go; "what are you complaining about? That's every kid's dream! Make an album and tour! What are they bitching about?!", you know? So that's what I'm going to keep doing, because I like it.
Blues-rock icon Walter Trout will begin his UK Tour on 16th October 2024. For ticketing, click here.
16 Oct – Opera House – Buxton, UK
17 Oct – Queens hall – Edinburgh, UK
18 Oct – The Glasshouse – Gateshead, UK
19 Oct – Picturedrome – Holmfirth, UK
22 Oct – Apex - Bury St Edmunds, UK
23 Oct – Cheese & Grain - Frome, UK
24 Oct - Town Hall – Birmingham, UK
25 Oct - Islington Assembly Hall – London, UK