RUDIMENTAL

ANNOUNCE HUGE 10-DATE UK TOUR

CURRENTLY WORKING ON THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM

Following the release of their platinum selling No.1 UK single ‘These Days’ in January, BRIT-Award winning collective, Rudimental have today announced a series of UK tour dates for October 2018, marking their first tour in two years! They will play headline shows across Glasgow, Nottingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, Bournemouth, concluding with two shows at London’s prestigious Alexandra Palace – their biggest tour to date!

The four-piece group returned to the music scene last summer with their Gold-selling single ‘Sun Comes Up’ ft. James Arthur, a single which date the single has gone platinum in the UK alone and spent 8 weeks in the Top 10 Official Chart, peaking at #6 also earning a global stream count of over 80 million! Their latest single, ‘These Days’ – which features Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen – stormed to the top of the UK charts earlier this month and is currently at No.5 having spent over 13 weeks in the chart, selling over 675,000 copies!

To date, the genre-defying, BRIT-Award winning band has sold over 4.3 million singles in the UK. They released their double-platinum selling debut album “Home” to critical acclaim in 2013, which has since sold over 1 million units worldwide, earning them at Mercury Prize nomination. Their second UK #1 studio album “WE THE GENERATION” released in 2015 and featured their global smash “Lay It All On Me” featuring Ed Sheeran, which has sold over 1.7 million copies, globally, including Gold single status in the US.

Seemingly appearing from nowhere in 2012 with their U.K. number one single “Feel the Love,” London-based electronic outfit Rudimental originally came together a few years earlier as the production name of duo Piers Agget and Kesi Dryden. Agget’s DJing brought him into contact with DJ Locksmith, who joined the pair, followed later by a chance meeting with Amir Amor at a studio in Hoxton, London. Rudimental’s first release, 2011’s dancehall-inspired “Deep in the Valley,” appeared on garage, grime, and dubstep label Black Butter and was quickly followed by “Speeding” and “Spoons.”

Picked up by Asylum Records/Warner Music off the back of their first few singles, 2012 saw the release of the drum’n’bass roller “Feel the Love.” Championed by Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, the single reached the top of the U.K. charts the same weekend as the four-piece played on their home turf at the Radio 1 2012 Hackney Weekender.

In 2013, Rudimental’s debut album Home arrived. Working with some of the U.K.’s finest talent, including the voice of 2012, Emeli Sandé, the album’s mix of dubstep, R&B, house, and drum’n’bass received positive reviews and went straight into the number one spot on the U.K. album chart. Hit singles from the album continued into 2014, including the U.K. number one “Waiting All Night,” which won a BRIT Award for Best British Single.

Rudimental scored another big hit in 2015 with the Ed Sheeran collaboration “Bloodstream,” and geared up for the release of their second full-length, We the Generation, which was announced as including collaborations with Dizzee Rascal, Lianne La Havas, Bobby Womack, and several others.