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Following his 46 date sell-out UK & European tour in 2014one of the UK's foremost singer songwriters, Middlesbrough born Chris Rea is set to return to the stage with 11 UK dates this December

The tour will be in support of a new album which will be released in September and will start in Manchester 1st December, taking in all corners if the UK before wrapping up at the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo Saturday 20th December. Chris will also perform at this year’s Montreux Jazz festival in July.

Chris Rea is the man behind the number 1 album’s ‘The Road To Hell’ in 1989 and ‘Auberge’ in 1991, and countless hits including ‘Fool (If You Think It's Over)’, ‘On The Beach’, ‘Let's Dance’, ‘Josephine’, ‘Stainsby Girls' and many more. A retrospective, 2009’s ‘Still So Far To Go - The Best of Chris Rea’ debuted at number 9 in the UK charts.

More recently, Chris Rea has achieved considerable success with the independent albums ‘Dancing Down The Stony Road’ (2002),‘Blue Guitars’ (2005) released on his own Jazee Blue Label and ‘Santo Spirito Blues’ (2011) which was released on Warners.

We are proud to announce that Gogol Bordello are coming to Rock City!



Gogol Bordello is a Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.[1] Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music. The band incorporates accordion and violin (and on some albums, saxophone) mixed with punk and dub.

The band has appeared in a number of popular films, most notably in 2005's Everything Is Illuminated in which the lead singer, Eugene Hütz, co-starred with Elijah Wood in a dramedy and adventure story about the Nazi purges in Ukraine. The entire group was present for one shot in which they played a brass band in a set that included the Star Spangled Banner. They also played the traditional Yiddish tune "Bublitschki". Gogol Bordello contributed the song "Start Wearing Purple" to the film's score. The band also has their own documentary called Gogol Bordello Non-Stop. This documentary was filmed in 2008 and follows the band's progress. In 2012, the band recorded a song titled Let's Get Crazy for Coca Cola's Euro 2012 advertising campaign.