The Homeless Gospel Choir Have Announced The Dates Of A UK Tour

It will be their first-ever full-band jaunt overseas.

The Homeless Gospel Choir have announced that they are going to be heading over to the UK for a string of dates next year.

It will be their first time on these shores as a full band as well.

Vocalist Derek Zanetti had this to say about it:

“The Homeless Gospel Choir presents our FIRST EVER FULL BAND UK/Euro tour! We’re all vaccinated, healthy and super stoked to finally be able to travel for a proper UK/Euro run. Please get vaccinated and be safe out there; let’s get together to make some noise, some memories and some friends! Stoked!” 

Here are the dates:

JUNE 2022

26 – COLCHESTER Three Wise Monkeys
28 – BRISTOL Exchange
29 – EXETER Cavern

JULY 2022

01 – JULY Signature Brew Haggerston
02 – NORWICH The Waterfront
03 – BIRMINGHAM Dead Wax
05 – STAFFORD Redrum
06 – MANCHESTER Factory 251
07 – HULL Tower
08 – LEEDS Boom
09 –  GLASGOW Garage
10- SHEFFIELD Corporation 

The band’s latest album ‘This Land Is Your Landfill’, is out on A-F Records/Hassle Records.

Here’s ‘Art Punk’:

We spoke to Derek around the release of the record, which you can read in full right HERE

Here’s a little snippet:

This is also the first time you’ve had a full band around you to bring a particular vision to life rather than it just being you with a guitar. How has having that network surrounding you affected how you approach things?
“I think that one thing that’s super important to me about what the Homeless Gospel Choir gets to do is create a sense of community wherever we go. We get to create a sense of belonging and a sense of care. I think that burden grew too broad for me to go out there and do on my own every night. Plus, the greatest treasure we have in this world is each other. Without people we’ve got nothing. It’s important for me to have that support system around me whilst also having creative people there to push me.

“I just wanted to change the aspect. I wanted this to look like a celebration instead of just one person on an acoustic guitar. It can now look like a wild group of people experiencing joy and excitement. Also, I wasn’t hearing sad acoustic cowboy songs in my mind anymore. I was hearing fast, loud punk songs with drums and bass and a chorus of singing. If that’s what I was hearing, I had to be true to that.”

As an artist it’s so important to follow through when you feel that calling to do something different. You never know if you will regret it or not.
“Yeah, it would have been very dishonest of me to just make these songs acoustic. It wouldn’t be an accurate portrayal of the story that I’m trying to tell. In order to incorporate the chaos and hysteria into the songs when it represents how things are going haywire, I had to incorporate more in.”

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