{"id":16575,"date":"2021-09-08T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T11:44:11","slug":"spear-of-destiny-announce-worldservice35-uk-tour-for-late-2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16575","title":{"rendered":"SPEAR OF DESTINY – ANNOUNCE\u00a0‘WORLDSERVICE@35’\u00a0UK TOUR FOR LATE 2021\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPEAR OF DESTINY<\/strong><\/p>\n

ANNOUNCE\u00a0<\/strong>‘WORLDSERVICE@35’<\/strong>\u00a0UK TOUR
\nFOR LATE 2021<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>TICKETS\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Rocking the music scene for over three decades, SPEAR OF DESTINY are not stopping. Today, they announce their ‘Worldservice@35’\u00a0 tour, following their acclaimed lockdown album released last year.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nTICKETS\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong>Hard to believe we know but it is true, Kirk Brandon has now been leading SPEAR OF DESTINY for over 38 years.<\/p>\n

Spear of Destiny\u00a0were formed in 1983 after the demise of Kirk Brandon\u2019s post punk iconic rockers THEATRE OF HATE. (Brandon had also, before TOH, been the main man in every punk rockers favourite band of that era The Pack)<\/p>\n

The current line up of Spear is the longest serving to date and features Adrian Portas (New Model Army \/ Sex Gang Children), Craig Adams (Sisters of Mercy \/ The Cult \/ The Mission) and Phil Martini (Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind)\u00a0<\/em>on drums. During 2019 the line up was boasted by Saxophonist Clive Osborne who will be staying in the line up for 2021.<\/p>\n

On April 6th<\/sup>\u00a02018 SPEAR OF DESTINY released their 14th<\/sup>\u00a0studio album \u201cTontine\u201d The album was been fully funded from a private fan pre-sale. The album is officially released for Brandon’s own Eastersnow Recording Company label imprint and is available on CD, Vinyl and Download across Europe. US label Cleopatra Records will be handling the North American release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just before the lockdown of 2020\/1 the band went into the studio and re-recorded perhaps their best known album, 1985’s WorldService. Eventually releasing the album to much critical acclaim in November 2020. The upcoming ‘WorldService @35’ UK Tour set will feature the album + b-sides in full and the show will be finished with a career spanning extended SOD encore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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WORLDSERVICE@35 TOUR DATES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

September
\nWed 8th NORWICH Waterfront
\nThur 9th NEWCASTLE The Cluny
\nFri 10th DUNFERMLINE PJ Malloys
\nSat 11th GLASGOW Oran Mor
\nSun 12th NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
\nWed 15th EXETER Phoenix
\nThur 16th BIRMINGHAM\u00a0 Hare & Hounds
\nFri 17th\u00a0 BEDFORD Esquires
\nSat 18th STOKE Underground
\nSun 19th YORK The Cresent
\nTue 21st LEEDS Brudenell Social
\nWed 22nd DARWEN Library Theatre
\nThur 23rd SOUTHEND The Venue @The Cricketers
\nFri 24th LUTON Hat Factory
\nSat 25th HULL The Welly
\nSun 26th SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
\nTues 28th BRISTOL The Fleece
\nWed 29th\u00a0 GRIMSBY Yardbirds
\nThur 30th MANCHESTER Club Academy<\/p>\n

October<\/strong>
\nFri 1st\u00a0 LONDON 229 THE CLUB
\nSat 2nd\u00a0 LEICESTER The Musician
\nSun 3rd SKEGNESS GB Alt Fest
\nSat 9th WOLVERHAMPTON WW-XVIII @ KK’s Steelmill
\nSun 10th WOLVERHAMPTON WW-XVIII @ KK’s Steelmill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPEAR OF DESTINY ANNOUNCE\u00a0‘WORLDSERVICE@35’\u00a0UK TOUR FOR LATE 2021\u00a0TICKETS\u00a0HERE Rocking the music scene for over three decades, SPEAR OF DESTINY are not stopping. Today, they announce their ‘Worldservice@35’\u00a0 tour, following their acclaimed lockdown album released last year.\u00a0 TICKETS\u00a0HEREHard to believe we know but it is true, Kirk Brandon has now been leading SPEAR OF DESTINY for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5844,2333,7112],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kirk-brandon","tag-spear-of-destiny","tag-world-service","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16579,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions\/16579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}