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Devlin, Dagenham’s 21-year-old lyrical prodigy, whose universally feted debut album “bud, sweat & beers” has established him as one of the breakthrough artists of 2010, has announced 5 UK dates for the new year. The dates follow the release of Devlin’s new Island single “Let It Go” produced by and featuring Labrinth, on January 31st. As these dates are announced, Devlin’s debut album has been classified silver in the UK for sales in excess of 60,000. The full list of dates is as follows : Thursday Feb 24th Manchester Club Academy Friday February 25th Glasgow 02 ABC2 Sunday February 27th Birmingham HMV Institute (The Library) Monday February 28th Norwich Waterfront Tuesday March 1st London 02 Academy Islington Tickets will be available to pre-order exclusively from Devlin’s website http://www.officialdevlin.com from 9.30am on Friday December 17th and will go on general sale from Monday December 20th and will be available from http://www.livenation.co.uk/ & http://w

Taken from Lennox’s acclaimed festive album ‘A Christmas Cornucopia’ available now through Island Records. Annie Lennox, one of the most successful, iconic and talented artists of the late 20th century releases the single ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ just in time for Christmas on 20th December. ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ is accompanied by a glorious video, which is a beautiful and magical illustration of the song and the Dickensian feel that is synonymous with it. Annie Lennox oversaw the creative of the video, using the iconic Angel outfit worn in the Eurythmics unforgettable ‘There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) video from 1985. The video is available here to view: http://www.muzu.tv/annielennoxl4u0gryycp/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-music-video/820132 One of the many highlights of the brand new festival album, ‘A Christmas Cornucopia’, this powerful rendition of the mid 18th Century traditional Christmas classic will fill our hearts and minds with joyful festive spir

Grammy award winning, 15 million album selling, singer-songwriter Macy Gray, one of the most unique and original artists to emerge in recent times, has been announced as the special guest on Simply Red’s Farewell tour in December. In addition, for the duration of the tour, an exclusive version of ‘The Sellout’, featuring a brand new live recording of ‘I Try’, recorded Live from Leicester Square earlier this year, will be released on iTunes for £4.99. The full list of dates are as follows: 8th Dec London 02 Arena 9th Dec Nottingham Arena 10th Dec Glasgow SECC 12th Dec Manchester MEN Arena 14th Dec Birmingham NIA 15th Dec Birmingham NIA 16th Dec Sheffield Arena 18th Dec London 02 Arena 19th Dec London 02 Arena Macy and full band will performing material from her recently released snd critically acclaimed album “The Sellout” as well as many of her best-loved classics from her illustrious career. The Sellout features 12 new songs and was co-written and executive produced by