London-based rapper Barney Artist announces ‘Tours Are Tours’ UK tour

Exciting jazz/hip-hop rapper Barney Artist has announced an extensive UK tour for December 2019, in support of his ‘Bikes Are Bikes’ EP.

05/12/2019 – The Louisiana, Bristol
08/12/2019 – Hope & Ruin, Brighton
09/12/2019 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
10/12/2019 – Hug & Pint, Glasgow
11/12/2019 – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
12/12/2019 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
13/12/2019 – The Bullingdon, Oxford
15/12/2019 – Corsica Studios, London

The 27-year-old rapper follows up on his sold-out 2018 UK tour, with his biggest nationwide tour to date, taking in shows in Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Oxford and London in December 2019.

Having recently released his new five-track EP, ‘Bikes Are Bikes’, Barney Artist has built upon release of his revelatory 2018 debut album ‘Home is Where the Art Is’, collaborating with London jazz pianist Alfa Mist; touring with multi-instrumentalist Tom Misch; performing at Glastonbury Festival and procuring an esteemed place on the official FIFA 19 video game soundtrack.

The ‘Tours are Tours’ UK tour sees Barney Artist head out across the UK with his blend of 90s-era boom-bap hip-hop and jazz, reminiscent of the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Kano and Ghostpoet to name a few.

Tickets for all shows on sale now.

This is a Music-Net tour. Music-Net is a partnership between producer and promoter Root Music and Inner City Music, owners and operators of iconic historic Manchester music venue Band on the Wall, funded by Arts Council England.