Rock legend Glenn Hughes excited at biggest solo UK tour in years

Glenn Hughes is highly respected in music circles with a career spanning more than four decades. He burst onto the scene in the 60s with Finders Keepers and Trapeze before going on to join Deep Purple and later Black Sabbath as bassist and lead singer.

He has recently formed the rock ‘supergroup’ Black Country Communion (BCC) with Jason Bonham, the son of former Led Zeppelin drummer John, blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa and keyboard player Derek Sherinian of Dream Theatre and Alice Cooper.

Following the release of their new album Cannock-born Glenn is doing a solo tour of the UK.

He said: “BCC are taking a minute to breathe and right now it’s back to the solo stuff.

“This is the biggest UK tour I’ve done in years, I’d say it’s about eight years since my last one so it was time to do this.

“I get super excited about it all. Leamington Spa is an area that is only about 30 miles from where I grew up and it will be great to finally play to the local people of Leamington.”

The Black Country album, which was released nearly two weeks ago is sitting top of the album charts and Glenn thinks it could top anything he has done before.

“The album has been very under-hyped, it’s just four guys who you might know about and we all get along great,” he said.

“20 years ago I was really sick and not the man that I am now. It has been a great journey and I wouldn’t change a thing.

“I feel that this band is supposed to have happened, we are just four guys that really came together.

“We are all friends, I couldn’t do it any other way. I’ve got to know that I can look in the eye of these guys and I want to know if it can be nurtured, that we can be buddies and can we laugh together. “This feels like a band of brothers. I have been in bands where there is ego’s, drugs, booze, wife swapping and that isn’t something I want to be a part of now.

“BCC is probably going to eclipse anything any of us have done before, it is already outselling all of our old stuff.”

He is coming to the Assembly on October 7 and is promising a show of “decadent rock n roll”.

“It’s a rock show, some people call me the voice of rock, and I’m going to be tipping my hat to the heavier and crunchier stuff, real rock n roll, and I’m dying to get started.”

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