Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong announce mammoth tour

Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Virgin Mobile Sessions, 14.10pm, V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelsmford, August 18, 2007, Pic: Sonia Melot

Band to play headline UK tour in April and May

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong have announced a 25-date UK tour for the spring.

The tour kicks off in Hull on April 21, before the group round off the jaunt in Norwich on May 27.

Their as-yet-untitled debut album is likely to be released later this year.

The full tour is as follows:

Hull Asylum (April 21)
Loughborough Room 1 (22)
Reading University (24)
Coventry Warwick Marketplace (25)
Bournemouth Old Fire Station (27)
Guildford Surrey Rubix (28)
Stoke Underground (May 1)
Coventry Kasbah (2)
Tamworth Palace (3)
Liverpool Academy 2 (5)
Newcastle Academy 2 (6)
Aberdeen Tunnels (8)
Glasgow King Tuts (9)
Bristol Thekla (10)
Preston 53 Degrees (12)
Oxford Academy (13)
Leeds Cockpit (14)
Manchester Academy 3 (15)
Sheffield Leadmill (17)
Birmingham Academy 2 (18)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (19)
Brighton Concorde 2 (20)
London Scala (22)
Portmouth Wedgewood Rooms (25)
Norwich Waterfront (27)

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