Richard Thompson brings his UK tour for the album 'Hippies, Thugs and Heroes' to the Swansea Grand Theatre.
Richard Thompson plays the Swansea Grand Theatre on Tuesday 27 April 2027, as part of his UK tour for Hippies, Thugs and Heroes. It's his twentieth studio album, arriving sixty-odd years into a career that started with Fairport Convention, where he helped forge a whole new style by giving traditional songs an electric edge and redefining the role of the guitar. His early solo work and his acclaimed albums with Linda Thompson, among them I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight and Shoot Out the Lights, earned him a reputation for fearless songwriting and an uncompromising guitar tone.
Hippies, Thugs and Heroes was written and demoed with his backing band and recorded at Hobosound Studio in Weehawken, New Jersey, in as few as two takes. Thompson has described it as a spiritual inquiry that draws on his past, including his 1970s involvement with a spiritual-searching group. The UK tour continues the wit and darkness that define his work, moving effortlessly between electric density and acoustic detail.
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On stage with him are drummer Michael Jerome, bassist Tara Prodaniuk, harmony singer Zara Phillips and guitarist/mandolinist Zak Hobbs. The set will draw from the new record and the wider catalogue he's built over the decades, with the band handling the electric and acoustic shifts that mark his live shows. The date is Tuesday 27 April 2027 at the Swansea Grand Theatre.
