Mansun are undertaking a mini-tour
of Virgin stores across the country next month to promote the follow-up
to their chart-topping album Attack Of The Grey Lantern.Mansun: Playing a shop near you
Mansun are undertaking a mini-tour
of Virgin stores across the country next month to promote the follow-up
to their chart-topping album Attack Of The Grey Lantern.
Six, which is being released on September 7, will be supported by after-hours performances at four stores, making Mansun the first act to play a series of in-store Virgin gigs in a single week after closing time.
NME has been brought in as a partner with EMI and Virgin Retail to promote the performances, which will begin at a midnight opening in Mansun’s home town of Chester on September 6, ahead of the release of the album.
Other appearances will follow at Virgin stores in Glasgow (September 8), Birmingham (9) and London’s Oxford Street (10).
This week’s issue NME is announcing a website address
where readers can leave requests for tickets for each show. There will be 1,000 available
per night, allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
Virgin Our Price local marketing and PR manager Simon Dornan
says, “These gigs are for real fans when you consider people have to go to a
website to apply for a ticket.” If successful, he adds, other such mini-tours
could follow.