Texas in ‘The Conversation’

“THE CONVERSATION”

BRAND NEW ALBUM RELEASED MAY 20^TH 2013

SINGLE RELEASED MAY 13^TH 2013

LIVE SHOWS GLASGOW, LONDON & PARIS

In their 25^th anniversary year TEXAS release their brand new studio album ‘The Conversation’ through [PIAS] on May 20^th 2013. The album will be preceded by the single also called ‘The Conversation’ on May 13^th.

Texas’s eighth album, ‘The Conversation’ is their first in eight years and is the latest in a career that has seen the band sell over 30 million albums worldwide with a succession of multi-platinum albums ‘White on Blonde’, ‘The Hush’ and ‘Greatest Hits’. This overdue return in 2013 clearly redefines and confidently re-introduces the band afresh with tracks written and produced by singer/guitarist Sharleen Spiteri and bassist Johnny McElhone and featuring collaborations with singer-songwriter Richard Hawley and Bernard Butler.

‘The Conversation’ is an album splitting its seams with the joy of a long-proven pop force creating a collection of songs rich enough in melody and emotion to deserve filing beside the best of the band’s previous million-selling hits. The album was recorded in Glasgow, London and at Richard Hawley’s studio in Sheffield where the seven tracks he worked on went on to form the backbone of ‘The Conversation’: a perfect marriage of Hawley’s 50s rock’n’roll frills and the timeless Texas magnetism to cast-iron melodies.

Texas will launch the album with three live shows in Glasgow, London and Paris, full details here:

Full UK tour dates:

Saturday 9^th November York, Barbican

Sunday 10^th November Inverness, Leisure Centre

Monday 11^th November Manchester, Bridgewater Hall

Wednesday 13^th November Bristol, Colston Hall

Thursday 14^th November London, Hammersmith Apollo

Friday 15^th November Plymouth, Pavilions

Sunday 17^th November Oxford, Apollo

Monday 18h November Birmingham, Symphony Hall

Tuesday 19^th November Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Thursday 21^st November Brighton, Dome

Friday 22^nd November Portsmouth, Guildhall

Sunday 24^th November Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Monday 25^th November Cambridge, Corn Exchange

Tuesday 26^th November Sheffield, City Hall

Thursday 28^th November Glasgow, Academy

Friday 29^th November Edinburgh, Usher Hall

Presale tickets are available from Wednesday 15^th May at 9am until Friday 17^th May at 9am. Tickets purchased during this period are available with an exclusive bundle option which includes a signed copy of the album.

General tickets are on sale from Friday 17^th May at 9am, from this period forward the bundle option remains but with the standard album.

Ticket information is available at http://www.texas.uk.com

Give it up for The Conversation.

NEW SINGLE: “DETROIT CITY”  out 12 August 2013

LISTEN HERE –https://soundcloud.com/texastheband/texas-detroit-city-1/

‘Detroit City’ is classic Texas, an infectious pop melody and killer singalong chorus courtesy of Sharleen Spiteri’s trademark soaring vocals, set to a contemporary melting-pot production that spells ‘Surefire Summer Anthem’. Detroit might well be the city to watch/namedrop in 2013 (“it’s like the old Berlin spirit for a new America,” comments the Texas frontwoman), but in ‘Detroit City’ Spiteri marries the ghosts of Detroit past, present and future.