Hurray For The Riff Raff UK/EU Tour Dates Approaching

Hurray For The Riff Raff UK/EU Tour Dates Approaching

Hurray For The Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) begins a headline tour of Europe featuring songs from their acclaimed Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, this month.  

The month-long tour includes London’s Lafayette on September 9, as well as dates in Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff, and performances at Greenbelt Festival, All Points East, and End Of The Road.  See below for all of the currently scheduled dates; for all the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Released in February, LIFE ON EARTH is a departure for the Bronx-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter.  Its eleven new “nature punk” tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux – songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening.  The album was recorded during the pandemic with producer Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby).  While making it, Segarra drew inspiration from the Clash, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bad Bunny, and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.

Alynda Segarra (they/she).  was born and raised in the Bronx, which they left at age seventeen, running away from everything and everyone they knew, hopping freight trains or hitchhiking across the country in the company of a band of street urchins.  Segarra moved to New Orleans in 2007 and formed two bands: Dead Man’s Street Orchestra and Hurray for the Riff Raff.  In 2015, Segarra decamped to Nashville, then to New York, to make 2017’s critically praised The Navigator, an ambitious and fully realized concept album that was her quest to reclaim her Puerto Rican identity.  Segarra’s previous records as Hurray for the Riff Raff are Crossing the Rubicon (EP, 2007), It Don’t Mean I Don’t Love You (2008), Young Blood Blues (2010), Hurray for the Riff Raff (2011), Look Out Mama (2012), My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (2013), and Small Town Heroes (2014).

TOUR DATES

Friday August 26                       Turin, Italy                                Todays Festival

Saturday August 27                   Kettering, UK                            Greenbelt Festival

Sunday August 28                     London, UK                               All Point East Festival

Wednesday August 31               Dublin, Ireland                           Whelan’s

Friday September 2                   Glasgow, UK                             St Luke’s

Saturday September 3               Leeds, UK                                 Brudenell Social Club

Sunday September 4                 Salisbury, UK                            End Of The Road Festival

Monday September 5                Cardiff, UK                                Clwb Ifor Bach

Wednesday September 7           Manchester, UK                        YES

Thursday September 8             Birmingham, UK                        Hare & Hounds

Friday September 9                   London, UK                               Lafayette

Saturday September 10             Brighton, UK                             CHALK

Monday September 12             Paris, France                            Point Éphémère

Wednesday September 14         Zurich, Switzerland                    Bogen F

Friday September 16                 Brussels, Belgium                      Botanique

Saturday September 17             Amsterdam, Netherlands           Tolhuistuin

Monday September 19             Cologne, Germany                    Jaki

Tuesday September 20             Berlin, Germany                        Hole⁴⁴

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