WIRRAL chart-toppers The Coral have announced a limited, four-date UK Tour this December the same week that the simultaneous release of their two new albums, Sea Of Mirrors and the physical formats-only LP, Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine enter the album charts. 
 
The Coral’s rare road trip begins at Glasgow’s legendary Barrowland ballroom on Friday, December 1 and ends at Manchester’s New Century a week later on Saturday, December 9.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday 15 Sep 2023 at 9:30am. Support duties are shared across the dates between Gruff Rhys (Glasgow and Liverpool) and Iraina Mancini (Manchester).
 
At the same time as detailing their first indoor headline shows since spring 2022, a deluxe edition of Sea Of Mirrors, including an exclusive to iTunes and CD remix of recent single, Faraway Worlds, by Gaz Coombes has been surprise released.

Having toured on more than one occasion with Supergrass, including as main tour support for their early-2020 reunion dates, The Coral reached out to their friend to give the dusky, late-night piano ballad a few new, expansive and airy twists.
 
Four additional tracks, marked as part of the band’s Skiffle Sessions – Wild Bird, That’s Where She Belongs, North Winds and a cover of The Doors’ 1967 classic, People Are Strange – have also been released.

All of the newly announced UK Tour dates for The Coral are as follows:
 

Fri 1 December – Glasgow, Barrowland

Sat 2 December – Liverpool, Olympia

Thu 7 December – London, Electric Ballroom

Sat 9 December – Manchester, New Century

 
All ticket links and information on upcoming live dates are available via www.thecoral.co.uk
 
Whilst the last time that The Coral performed on a complete run of UK shows was March 2022, to play their self-titled debut album in its entirety on its 20th anniversary, singer and songwriter, James Skelly and keyboardist, poet and co-songwriter, Nick Power have continued to tour into theatres with their The Making Of The Debut Album spoken word and acoustic tour. With more dates planned an onsale throughout 2024, the duo take to the stage to take fans through the wild ride of recording The Coral’s first album, illustrated with lo-fi renditions and excerpts from the record that gave the world Skeleton Key and Dreaming Of You.
 
Sea Of Mirrors was last week on multiple, limited-edition and standard vinyl formats as well as CD, cassette and digital, while Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show was only available to fans and collectors on single-pressing physical vinyl, CD and cassette. The deluxe edition of Sea Of Mirrors is available now via iTunes and the band’s official store.