Imelda May has announced a 3Arena date for this winter, to celebrate the launch of her latest album Life Love Flesh Blood.
The Mayhem singer will take to the stage a few days before Christmas on Friday, December 22nd – and it’s set to be a night to remember!
Life Love Flesh Blood is the most personal and intimately autobiographical album she has ever written, and her recently released single Should’ve Been You has received high critical acclaim.
The album is produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett, who said of Imelda: “When I first happened onto her music, she was a punky Irish Rockabilly singer with a great band. When I ran across her several years later, she had gone through a change of lives and was writing about it with a wild intensity and singing about it in the most open hearted way.”
Imelda May’s new sound sits firmly outside of any sharply defined genre box, widely spanning blues, rock, soul, gospel and jazz. Life, Love, Flesh, Blood breathes new life into a classic sound, with Imelda’s powerhouse vocal as distinctive as ever, cementing her position as one of the strongest vocalists of her generation. The singer herself describes the record as her most “honest” yet. Imelda’s life changed considerably in the run up to recording, and this is documented in the only way she knew how. “It’s therapy, like keeping a diary that a lot of people read,” Imelda explains.
Imelda impressed viewers of Jools Holland’s esteemed annual Hootenanny on New Year’s Eve with a captivating live performance of ‘Black Tears’, which landed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube in just days of its upload. She also wowed audiences receiving a standing ovation last weekend opening for The Who at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Tickets go on sale next Wednesday 12th April at 9am from Ticketmaster.
