Altsounds - BOB DYLAN ANNOUNCES RETURN TO UK FOR APRIL 2009 TOUR

Bob Dylan will return to the UK in April 2009 for a series of seven live shows, including a date at London’s O2 Arena on Saturday 25th of April. Part of his European tour which begins in Sweden on March 23rd, these shows will be his first in the UK since 2007 and alongside London, will also take in dates in Sheffield, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow & Edinburgh. Tickets are on sale today and available from the outlets detailed below :

Dates are as follows:

April 2009

Fri 24th: Sheffield Arena 0114 256 5656

Sat 25th: London, 02 Arena 0844 856 0202

Tue 28th: Cardiff Int. Arena 029 2022 4488

Wed 29th: Birmingham NIA 0844 33 88 000

May

Fri 1st: Liverpool Echo Arena 0844 8000 400

Sat 2nd: Glasgow SECC 0870 040 4000

Sun 3rd: Edinburgh Playhouse 0844 847 1660

c/c hotline: 0844 576 5483 or to buy online at www.livenation.co.uk

www.bobdylan.com

Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs – the 8th instalment in the best-selling and critically lauded Bootleg Series which launched 1991 – was released recently by Columbia Records to massive media acclaim. A treasure-trove of 27 songs spanning two discs, Tell Tale Signs features previously unreleased recordings and alternate versions of tracks from sessions which generated some of Bob Dylan's most acclaimed and commercially successful albums from the last two decades, including Time Out Of Mind, Love And Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy.

Bob Dylan is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 110 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career spanning five decades. His most recent studio album, Modern Times -- lauded by critics around the world and selling more than 2.5 million copies to date -- entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #1, as well as debuting within the Top Five in 21 other countries. His previous studio albums, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft, have been among his most commercially successful and critically lauded, each having sold more than a million copies and earning Grammy nominations for Album Of The Year (Time Out Of Mind won that award in 1998).

In 2001, he received a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for best song from a motion picture for "Things Have Changed" from the movie Wonder Boys. Dylan's Chronicles – Volume I, his recent memoirs released in October, 2004, was a world-wide best seller, spending 19 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He was awarded a 'special citation' Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

Bob Dylan remains one of the world's top touring artists, performing more than 100 concerts yearly around the globe.