03/05/2012

Robert Plant Announces One-Off Show

Robert Plant is set to play a one-off London show on July the 12th at London's HMV Forum.


The show will see the former Led Zeppelin singer performing with his new project, The Sensational Space Shifters. He will also be performing with them at a show at the Gloucester Guildhall on May the 8th, as well as at this year's WOMAD festival at Wiltshire's Charlton Park on July 2th7-29th.


The Sensational Space Shifters are said to take inspiration from "the roots music of Mississippi, Appalachia, Gambia, Bristol and the foothills of Wolverhampton". The band consists of Robert Plant on vocals and harmonica, Juldeh Camara of JuJu on the ritti, kologo, talking drum and vocals, Justin Adams also of JuJu and Jah Wobble on guitar, bendir and vocals, John Baggott of Massive Attack and Portishead on keyboards, Liam 'Skin' Tyson of Cast on guitar and vocals, Dave Smith of JuJu and Outhouse Ruhabi on drums and percussion and finally, Billy Fuller of JuJu and Beak on bass guitar and vocals.


Tickets for the London show are set to go on sale tomorrow (May 4th) at 9am (BST). Or, for more information, visit www.Womad.org.


Back in 2010, Robert Plant released Band of Joy, which was his ninth solo record.