Betty Boo has announced plans for her first ever UK tour.
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The ‘Doin’ The Do’ star is set to reissue her 1990 debut ‘Boomania’ later this month and as part of the celebrations, she will be hitting the road this summer.
Kicking off at Dover Booking Hall on June 5, the tour, which will see the singer performing songs from her debut, 1992 follow up ‘GRRR! It’s Betty Boo’ and her more recent records ‘Boomerang’ and last year’s ‘Rip Up The Rulebook’, will eventually wrap up at Bedford Esquires on June 28.
Tickets for the shows go on sale on at 10am BST on Friday (April 4) and can be purchased here.
Betty Boo will play:
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5 – Dover Booking Hall
6 – Hertford Corn Exchange
7 – Ipswich The Baths
11 – Milton Keynes Crauford Arms
12 – Leicester Soundhouse
13 – Stockton KU
14 – Birkenhead Future Yard
18 – Southampton The Joiners
19 – St Albans The Horn
20 – Hebden Bridge Trades Club
21 – Hull Social
25 – Glasgow Hug & Pint
26 – Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms
27 – Cambridge Portland Arms
28 – Bedford Esquires
‘Boomania’ and ‘GRRR! It’s Betty Boo’ will also be reissued on coloured vinyl, CD and cassette on April 25. You pre-order/pre-save the records here.
Betty Boo made her breakthrough as guest vocalist on The Beatmasters’ Top 10 single ‘Hey DJ/I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing)’ in 1989.
She released two albums before she retired her solo career.
She went on to write songs for other pop artists such as Popstars band Hear’Say and Girls Aloud, including the former’s Number One hit ‘Pure And Simple’ and the latter’s three singles ‘Mars Attack’, ‘Boogie Down Love‘ and ‘Love Bomb‘ from their 2003 album ‘Sound Of The Underground’.
Speaking to NME about working with Girls Aloud previously, she said: “Post-pops star it was like being an ex-footballer and working at a club – although not as well paid. It was a bit shit.”
She added: “Managing vocals on a group is difficult because you want to feature all of them equally and not turn up the best singer, because the others get upset. I worked with one girl band – not Girls Aloud – and one of their mums came into the studio demanding: ‘Can you turn my daughter’s mic up?’. I’m like: ‘Get the fuck out of my studio!’”
More recently she returned to the studio for her 2022 album ‘Boomerang’ and last year’s ‘Rip Up The Rulebook’.
