Rizzle Kicks whose new critically acclaimed album “Roaring 20s” stormed into the chart at no.3, have announced a massive tour of the UK, making an eagerly anticipated return to the live circuit in February/March 2014. Their brand new single “Skip To The Good Bit” released on November 4^th through Island Records. “Skip…” samples “Unbelievable”, the massive UK and US number 1 hit from EMF, one of the biggest and most instantly recognisable hits from the last 20 years.   

The tour dates are as follows:

Fri 7^th Feb 2014                       Lincoln                        Engine Shed

Sat 8^th Feb 2014                      Nottingham                Rock City

Sun 9^th Feb 2014                     Sheffield                      O2 Academy

Wed 12^th Feb 2014                  Aberdeen                    Aberdeen Music Hall

Thurs 13^th Feb 2014                Edinburgh                  Picture House

Fri 14^th Feb 2014                     Glasgow                      O2 Academy

Sat 15^th Feb 2014                    Liverpool                    O2 Academy

Sun 16^th Feb 2014                   Newcastle                   O2 Academy

Thurs 20^th Feb 2014                Norwich                     UEA

Fri 21^st Feb 2014                     Cambridge                  Corn Exchange

Sat 22^nd Feb 2014                   Birmingham               Academy

Mon 24^th Feb 2014                  Bournemouth                         O2 Academy

Tue 25^th Feb 2014                   Plymouth                    Pavilions

Thurs 27^th Feb 2014                Manchester                 Apollo

Fri 28^th Feb 2014                     Leeds                           O2 Academy

Sat 1^st March 2014                 London                       Hammersmith Apollo

Sun 2^nd March 2014               Cheltenham                Racecourse

Tues 4^th March                       Bristol                          O2 Academy

Wed 5^th March                       Southend                    Leas Cliff Pavilion

Thurs 6^th March                     Cardiff                                    University

Fri 7^th March                           Brighton                      Centre           

Tickets on pre-sale today from 6pm, available from here.

Roaring 20s, a record which should see the boys cement their position as one of the most inspiring and refreshing acts to emerge from Britain in recent years, was mostly created in Shepherd's Bush, West London, in the tiny home studio of Stereo Typical producer Ant Whiting (British producer/song-writer/mixer whose career began with ground-breaking work on M.I.A's debut Arular).

The album is a pin-sharp picture of life in your twenties which also reflects the historical Roaring 20s. The album title sprang from Jordan's obsession with the 1920s, a lifelong film buff besotted with Woody Allen's romantic fantasy Midnight In Paris (2011), Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things (2003) and the lives of Earnest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. “I was fascinated by the idea that before the 1920s there were Victorians,” he explains. “The change of a woman from wearing corsets to becoming a flapper girl. It was like the metropolitan cities of the world went from black and white to colour. Gay people started arriving. Black people started performing to white people. White people didn't mind black people so much. There was more of a free spirit. And that directly correlates with human age. If you say 1914 to 1918 was World War I and put that into the context of a human life, 14 to 18 is end of GCSE's, you're just becoming legal, hormones have all kicked it, I'd definitely describe it as a war, trying to get a job, all this shit kicks off. Then you get into the roaring 1920s and that whole mentality is very reflective of what it's like in your 20s, the time to have fun. The punch-line being that after the 20s is the 30s, the great depression, and people always whinge about turning 30! So it's a parallel. Music could be seen as being black and white and we're dipping some colour into it. We're the personification of the 1920s.”