Blood Orange has booked a Manchester headline show and four Alexandra Palace dates

Blood Orange is set to headline Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse on 14th November, alongside four nights at London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre.

The shows arrive in support of new album ‘Essex Honey’, out now via RCA Records – Dev Hynes’ first Blood Orange full-length in over six years.

Written, produced and recorded by Hynes, the record examines grief and memories of growing up in Essex, and features collaborations with Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile’s Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir, author Zadie Smith – singing on an album for the first time – Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, The Durutti Column, Wet’s Kelly Zutrau, Naomi Scott, Amandla Stenberg, and Liam Benzvi.

Ahead of the UK and European run, Blood Orange will play Portola Music Festival and join Turnstile in Columbus and Richmond, before accompanying Lorde for arena dates including Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the Kia Forum.

Artist presale for the new Manchester headline date opens 9th September at 10am local time, with general sale from 11th September at 10am.

The dates read:

SEPTEMBER
21 Portola Music Festival, San Francisco, USA
23 KEMBA LIVE!, Columbus, USA
24 Brown’s Island, Richmond, USA
26 TD Garden, Boston, USA
27 Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada
30 Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, USA

OCTOBER
14 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, USA
17 MGM Grand Garden, Las Vegas, USA
18 Kia Forum, Inglewood, USA
29 Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
31 C2C Festival @ Lingotto Fiere, Torino, Italy

NOVEMBER
3 Pitchfork Festival @ L’Olympia, Paris, France
4 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
7 Alexandra Palace Theatre, London, UK
8 Alexandra Palace Theatre, London, UK
9 Alexandra Palace Theatre, London, UK
10 Alexandra Palace Theatre, London, UK
13 Electric Bristol, Bristol, UK
14 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK
15 AO Arena, Manchester, UK
19 History, Toronto, Canada
29 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, USA
30 Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, USA