Eric Clapton is ready to play two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall as a part of a six-date UK and Ireland tour in 2024.
Eric Clapton is returning to his favorite London venue for 2 exhibits subsequent spring
The 78-year-old guitar maestro will kick off the run on May 9 at the Utilita Arena in Newcastle, earlier than heading to Liverpool, Birmingham and Dublin, Ireland, and wrapping at the long-lasting venue in Kensington on May 20 and 21.
Tickets will go on sale at 9am on June 9, and will likely be accessible from Ticketmaster (for the Dublin present) or by way of Bookings Direct (all different exhibits).
The ‘Layla’ hitmaker first carried out at the world-famous live performance venue with The Yardbirds in 1964, and he is since performed there greater than 200 instances, which is greater than every other artist.
What’s extra, on June 23, followers can get their arms on the expanded dwell LP ‘The Definitive 24 Nights’ from Clapton’s 24-night residency at RAH in 1991.
Clapton’s most up-to-date live shows there have been for the pair of Jeff Beck tribute live shows, alongside rockers comparable to Sir Rod Stewart, 78, Ronnie Wood, 75, and Johnny Depp, 59, final month.
The ‘Wonderful Tonight’ hitmaker organised the star-studded exhibits with Beck’s widow Sandra.
Beck, ranked fifth in Rolling Stone journal’s checklist of the 100 biggest guitarists of all time, received eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice – as soon as with The Yardbirds in 1992 and as a solo artist in 2009.
One spotlight from the present was Depp inviting ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, 73, and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, 60, on stage, with the Hollywood actor singing as they strummed to a canopy of John Lennon’s 1970 observe ‘Isolation’.
Beck handed away on January 10, aged 78, after contracting bacterial meningitis.
Eric Clapton UK and Ireland Tour 2024 dates:
May 09: Newcastle Utilita Arena, UK
May 11: Liverpool M and S Bank Arena, UK
May 13: Birmingham Resorts World Arena, UK
May 16: Dublin 3Arena, Ireland
May 20: London Royal Albert Hall, UK
May 21: London Royal Albert Hall, UK
