Sean Paul Says He Misses Live Shows, Announces UK Tour For April 2022
Sean Paul has announced a nine-show UK tour for April 2022, to coincide with the release of Scorcher, his eighth studio album.
The announcement, which the Dancehall star made on his social media pages, comes on the heels of his Grammy nomination for his Live N Livin album, in the Recording Academy’s Best Reggae Album category, along with Spice’s 10, Etana’s Pamoja, Positive Vibration by Gramps Morgan, Royal by Jesse Royal and Beauty in Silence by American Reggae band SOJA.
The UK Tour will be the first in two years for the Temperature artist, who shared recently that he has not left Jamaica since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also be his first UK tour in more than three years, his last being in 2019 where he headlined the John Peel stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
The 2003 Grammy winner will commence his tour at the O2 Academy in Edinburgh on April 11, 2022 and close at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on April 21.
“I bin missin dat live show energy!!! UK HERE I COME!!! Where should I go next??? Drop UR flag below,” he Tweeted on Friday, later adding: BIG UP MY UK FANS!!! CYAA WAIT 2 SEE UNNU!!! PRE-ORDER DI NEW ALBUM FOR PRE-SALE ACCESS!!!”
I bin missin dat live show energy!!! UK HERE I COME!!! Where should I go next??? Drop UR flag below pic.twitter.com/d5NrigEbJz
— Sean Paul (@duttypaul) December 3, 2021
Sean Paul’s tour of 2022 list is as follows:
April 11 – O2 Academy, Edinburgh
April 12 – O2 Academy, Glasgow
April 13 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
April 15 – BEC Arena, Manchester
April 16 – The SSE Arena, Wembley, London
April 17 – First Direct Arena, Leeds
April 19 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham
April 20 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
April 21 – Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff.
Scorcher was initially slated to be released last May, but was pushed back to early 2022, reportedly due to the difficulty of clearing rights for the many international stars set to join the deejay on the album, according to The Independent.
A month ago, Sean Paul released the single Dynamite with Australian singer-songwriter Sia, their second collaboration five years after their mega-hit 2016 Cheap Thrills.
The duo also released the visualiser and official music video for Dynamite, which has racked up 4.3 million views collectively on YouTube.
The Dutty Rock artiste also released the music video for the album’s lead single also titled Scorcha in April this year. The title track was produced by Chimney Records and was released in December 2020.
In January this year, Sean had revealed that Scorcher would have on its list of collaborators, singer Gwen Stefani, Sia, Shenseea, and Jada Kingdom, as well as Dumpling artiste Stylo G.
Since then it has been revealed that LA rapper Ty Dolla Sign and British singer-songwriter Raye will be a part of the album. Sean Paul had indicated that Scorcher would take more of an international approach to making the riddims and the songs, would still be Dancehall music, but would be “more suited for the palate” of his international audience.”
Scorcher will be released under the auspices of Island Records.
His other album, Live N Livin was released in February and was produced under the auspices of Sean’s Dutty Rock Productions and featured a string of collabs with 21 Dancehall and Reggae artistes including Buju Banton, Busy Signal, Serani, Masicka, Bugle, Intence, Squash, Mavado, and Chi Ching Ching. The album also featured Jesse Royal and Mutabruka on the track Guns of Navarone, which addressed the issue of gun violence in Jamaica.
Live N Livin debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Reggae Chart.