Chris Rea Announces The Last Open Road Tour!

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following his 46 date sell-out UK & European tour in 2012, one of the UK's foremost singer songwriters 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 LIVE:
DECEMBER
Mon 1st MANCHESTER, Apollo
Tue 2nd EDINBURGH, Usher Hall
Thu 4th GLASGOW, Clyde
Tue 9th NEWCASTLE, City Hall
Thu 11th SHEFFIELD, City Hall
Fri 12th BOURNEMOUTH, BIC
Sun 14th BIRMINGHAM, NIA
Mon 15th CARDIFF, St Davids
Tue 16th BRISTOL, Colston
Thu 18th BRIGHTON, Centre
Sat 20th LONDON, Eventim Hammersmith Apollo

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.