Blues rock’s resilient icon, Walter Trout, has announced a 14-date UK tour for October 2026, that will see him play songs from his latest album, Sign of the Times, released in September this year via Provogue.
The tour will begin on 2nd October in Buxton (Opera House), as he then calls through Edinburgh (The Queen’s Hall), Aberdeen (The Lemon Tree), Southport (The Atkinson), Carlisle (Old Fire Station) Gateshead (The Glasshouse), Clitheroe (The Grand), Holmfirth (Picturedrome), Norwich (The Adrian Flux Waterfront), Wolverhampton (KK’s Steel Mill), Gloucester (Guildhall), Frome (Cheese & Grain), Southampton (The Brook) and finishes at Islington Assembly Hall, London on 18 October. Tickets are available here.
Talking about returning to the UK, Walter said, “I’m always looking forward to spending time in the country of my ancestors. The audiences always help me and my band feel right at home.”
As well as playing songs from his back catalogue, he will be playing songs from his latest record Sign Of The Times, a UK Jazz & Blues #1 and US #1 Billboard Blues album, that birthed the singles, ‘Sign Of The Times’, ‘I Remember’ and ‘Artificial’.
In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scalding-honest songwriter, Walter Trout, has never told his fans what to think, how to feel, or where to stand politically. But in an era when his home nation – and the wider world – is ripping at the seams over the battlelines of modern life, the iconic US blues man’s hard-rocking new album, Sign Of The Times, is a primal scream and pressure valve for all of us. “I wanted to reflect upon what’s going on in the world,” he explained. “For me, writing these songs is therapy. They’re not just about what’s happening out there, but how it affects you in your head. Sign Of The Times just became the obvious title.”
Sign Of The Times is available here.
