Betty Boo announces first ever UK tour

nme.com:

Betty Boo has announced plans for her first ever UK tour.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.JUNE5 – Dover Booking Hall6 – Hertford Corn Exchange7 – Ipswich The Baths11 – Milton Keynes Crauford Arms12 – Leicester Soundhouse13 – Stockton KU14 – Birkenhead Future Yard18 – Southampton The Joiners19 – St Albans The Horn20 – Hebden Bridge Trades Club21 – Hull Social25 – Glasgow Hug & Pint26 – Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms27 – Cambridge Portland Arms28 – 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 –.