Stevie Nimmo Sky Won't Fall cd details and UK Tour dates with Ben Poole announced

NEW ALBUM "SKY WON'T FALL"
RELEASED FRIDAY 4th MARCH 2016

BEN POOLE & STEVIE NIMMO UK TOUR
FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL & MAY 2016

Award winning blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Stevie Nimmo, will release is second solo album “Sky Won’t Fall” via Manhaton Records on Friday 4th March.  One half of the Nimmo Brothers, this will be Stevie’s second solo release since 2010’s debut acoustic album, The Wynds of Life.
To celebrate the release, Stevie will embark on a co-headline tour with The Ben Poole Band throughout the months of February, March, April and May. The tour will kick off on Thursday 4th February at the Bootlegger’s Bar in Kendal. Tickets go on saleThursday 14th January. 

Stevie’s new album starts with the flick of a switch. Then a squeal of feedback. Finally, the mother of all blues-rock riffs rises from the white noise, and Sky Won’t Fallraces out of the blocks in style. If the prospect of a new solo album from this titan of the British music scene didn’t already have your undivided attention, then thirty seconds into Chains of Hope, Stevie Nimmo has you by the lapels.
Released by Manhaton Records (the same label that releases King King’s albums), it’s a curious realisation that Sky Won’t Fall is only the second solo album of Stevie’s decorated career. In mitigation, the Glaswegian bandleader has been busy: since the late-’90s, there has been the small matter of helming legendary blues-rock outfit The Nimmo Brothers alongside younger sibling Alan. Indeed, Sky Won’t Fall was recorded in just ten days snatched between Nimmo tour commitments. “It was a bit frantic,” admits Stevie. “But even with all the madness, the project went very well.” 

Stevie Nimmo. Photo Credit: Andy Hibbs.

That the sessions at Nottingham’s Superfly Studios ran so smooth is testament to the near-telepathic chemistry between Stevie and his crack core band. On drums, Craig Bacon drives the material with power and nuance. On bass, Mat Beable provides the thrilling counterpoint to Stevie’s soulful guitar work and evocative vocals. Flanked by engineer Andy Banfield, Stevie is also joined on production by King King’s drummerWayne Proctor, to oversee a mix that bursts from the speakers. “Wayne was the man in charge of getting my ideas out of my head and down on a recording,” says Stevie. “Not an easy task, but he nailed it.”
As ever, it was Stevie himself who supplied the raw material, arriving at Superfly Studios with ten of the best songs of his career burning a hole in his pocket. In 2016, the Glaswegian has a deserved reputation as a songwriter of eclectic brilliance: stick a pin in his back catalogue and you’ll find anything from the Nimmo Brothers’ high-octane blues-rock to the Americana stylings of 2010’s solo debut, The Wynds of Life. No wonder that Maverick Magazine dubbed him “one of Scotland’s finest singer-songwriters”. 

Ben Poole. Photo Credit: Andy Hibbs.

With Sky Won’t Fall, Stevie’s muse proves as light on its feet as we’ve come to expect, with a track listing that throws endless curveballs and slips every pigeonhole you try to place around it. “I wanted Sky Won’t Fall to have as broad a musical spectrum as possible,” he reasons, “to showcase a bit of every side of my song writing. So there’s rock, blues, country, pop-rock and even acoustic. It really is a good representation of what I do.”
Most assuredly, there’s plenty here to satisfy the hardened blues-rockers hanging off Stevie’s security barrier, with Chains of Hope fusing its overdriven punch with a pop at the tech revolution, Roll The Dice Again riding on a trouser-flapping riff, and Still Hungry offering a Zep-worthy guitar lick that smokes the timid radio-friendly rock of the modern mainstream. With these cuts chalked onto his solo set lists, it’s a safe bet that Stevie’s tour dates throughout 2016 will have the ammunition to blow the doors off. 

Stevie Nimmo. Photo Credit: Andy Hibbs.

And yet, such jaw-breaking rockers means it’s even more poignant when Sky Won’t Fallshifts gears to its most reflective moments. Take Running On Back To You: a tour bus love-letter penned to Stevie’s beloved family and set to neck-tingling mid-tempo blues.Lovin’ Might Do Us Good is a musical sunbeam to punch through the blackest storm cloud, and Change fuses funk-inflected wah guitar with an eloquent discourse on following your own path. The sun-kissed refrain of Walk the Thin Line, meanwhile, is an early contender for earworm of the year. “The first thing that came to me on this song was the melody,” remembers Stevie. “Then I wrote the rest of the song around it.”
For both the hardcore fans who have cheered him to the rafters since early years in Glasgow, and the first-timers keen to find out what the buzz is about, Sky Won’t Fallrepresents a bar-raising release from Stevie Nimmo. To play this album is hear one of the nation’s most questing talents at full stretch – and to know him a little better by the end. “If someone hasn’t got any of my albums,” notes Stevie, “then it wouldn’t be a bad idea to start with this one. With Sky Won’t Fall, I think a new listener could easily work out who I am.”   

BEN POOLE & STEVIE NIMMO
UK TOUR 2016

FEBRUARY 2016

KENDAL - BOOTLEGGERS BAR
THURSDAY 4th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: www.skiddle.com 
24 Finkle St, Kendal, LA9 4AB
www.bootleggersbar.com

YORK – FIBBERS
FRIDAY 5th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 08444 771000
3-5 Toft Green, York, YO1 6JT
www.fibbers.co.uk

LEICESTER - THE MUSICIAN
SUNDAY 7th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: www.wegottickets.com 
Clyde St, Leicester, LE1 2DE
www.themusicianpub.co.uk

PUTNEY. LONDON - THE HALF MOON
THURSDAY 11th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12.  Box Office   020 8780 9383
93 Lower Richmond Rd, London. SW15 1EU
www.halfmoon.co.uk

DARLINGTON - THE FORUM MUSIC CENTRE
FRIDAY 12th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12. Box Office: 01325 363165
Borough Rd, Darlington, Co. Durham, DL1 1SG 
www.darlington-r-n-b-club.co.uk

BINGLEY – BINGLEY BLUES FESTIVAL
SATURDAY 13th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £15.  Box Office   01274 567983
Bingley Arts Centre, Main St, Bingley, BD16 2LZ
www.bingleyartscentre.co.uk

WORTHING - PAVILLION THEATRE
SUNDAY 14th FEBRUARY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01903 366017
info@worthingpier.co.uk 
www.worthingpier.co.uk 

MARCH 2016

SHOREHAM – ROPETACKLE ARTS CENTRE
THURSDAY 17th MARCH
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01273 464440
High St, Shoreham by Sea, BN43
www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk

BARTON ON HUMBER – ROPERY HALL
FRIDAY 18th MARCH
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01652 660380
Maltkin Road, Barton-on-Humber, DN18 5JW
www.roperyhall.co.uk 
  
MICKLETON - R-n-B CLUB
SATURDAY 19th MARCH
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01833 640854
Village Hall, Mickleton, Durham, DL12 0JR
www.mickletonrnb.co.uk

KINROSS SCOTLAND - THE GREEN HOTEL
SUNDAY 20th MARCH
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01577 863467
2 The Muirs, Kinross, Perthshire, KY13 8AS
www.mundellmusic.com

21 OXFORD - THE HAVEN CLUB
MONDAY 21st MARCH
Tickets £10/12 / Box Office: www.wegotickets.com 
The Bullingdon, Cowley Rd, Oxford, OX3 7PZ
www.thehavenclub.co.uk

SUTTON - BOOM BOOM CLUB
FRIDAY 29th APRIL
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 0208 761 9078
Sutton United FC, Gander Green Lane, Sutton, SM1 2EY
www.feenstra.co.uk

SELBY - ARTS CENTRE
SATURDAY 30th APRIL
Tickets £12 / Box Office: 01757 708 449
York St, Selby. Yorkshire, YO8 4AH
www.selbytownhall.co.uk

MAY 2016

NEWCASTLE - THE CLUNY
WEDNESDAY 4th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 0191 230 4474
36 Lime St, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ
www.thecluny.com 
 
STIRLING - THE TOLLBOOTH
THURSDAY 5th MAY
Tickets £12 / Box Office: 01786 274400
Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE
www.tollbooth.stirling.gov.uk

GLASGOW - ORAN MOR
FRIDAY 6th MAY
Tickets; £12 / Box Office: 0141 357 6200
Byers Road, Glasgow, G12 8QX
www.oran-mor.co.uk

ABERDEEN - CAFE DRUMMOND
SATURDAY 7th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01244 619930
1 Belmont St, Aberdeen, AB10 1JR
www.cafedrummond.com

CHELTENHAM – VONNIES
WEDNESDAY 11th MAY
Tickets £12 / Box Office: 01452 862332
21 Church St, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8AP
www.charltonkingsclub.co.uk 
  
CHISLEHURST - BEAVERWOOD CLUB
THURSDAY 12th MAY
Tickets:  £12 / Box Office: 0208 761 9078
Beaverwood Rd, Chislehurst, BR7 6HF
www.feenstra.co.uk

SOUTHAMPTON - THE TALKING HEADS
FRIDAY 13th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 02380 678 446
Maple Leaf, 16-22 The Polygon, Southampton, SO15 2BN
www.thetalkingheads.co.uk

HARTLEPOOL SUPPORTERS CLUB
SATURDAY 14th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 075359 79658
Sandringham Road, Hartlepool, TS26 0JJ

FARNHAM - THE MALTINGS
THURSDAY 19th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01252 793 430
The Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR
www.boogaloopromotions.com

NEWBURY – ARLINGTON ARTS CENTRE
FRIDAY 20th MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01635 244246
Arlington Arts Centre, Snelsmore Common, Newbury, RG14 3BQ
www.arlingtonarts.co.uk

DERBY – THE FLOWERPOT
SATURDAY 21st MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 01332 204955
The Flowerpot 23 King St, Derby. DE1 3DZ
www.rawpromo.co.uk

SHEFFIELD - GREYSTONES
SUNDAY 22nd MAY
Tickets: £12 / Box Office: 0114 266 5599
Greystones Rd, Sheffield, S11 7BS
www.mygreystones.co.uk

Stevie Nimmo. Photo Credit: Andy Hibbs.