New Danny & The Champions Of The World Album Announced + UK Tour Dates

Thursday, 27th April 2017

Danny & The Champions Of The World will release Brilliant Light, their sixth studio album, on 23rd June. Brilliant Light, the follow-up to 2015's award winning album 'What Kind Of Love', features 18 songs over two CDs/LPs. A limited edition triple CD/LP version is available to pre-order via Pledge Music or from your local independent record shop, with a bonus disc, Photogene, consisting of  eleven instrumentals.Swift Street is the first song to be shared from Brilliant Light. The song is deeply personal to Danny George Wilson who co-wrote it with Polly Paulusma and Carra Bacon."Swift Street is the house where my mother grew up’’, Danny tells us."The song is about 3 different photographs - one of me and my brothers playing in a billy cart in the driveway, the second is of my grandfather aged 14 standing with his mother outside his childhood home in Aberdeen - he left for Australia after the Second World War. The third is of my folks in the garden of the house in Swift Street before they left to live in London. Each photograph takes a verse. I was nervous about my mum hearing it, but she loves it.’’Go HERE to pre-order the album and listen to Swift Street below. UK TOUR - SEPTMEBER 201712 - LEEDS Brudenell13 - NOTTINGHAM Maze14 - SHEFFIELD Plug15 - MANCHESTER Soup Kitchen16 - GATESHEAD Caedmon Hall18 - BRISTOL Lantern19 - CAMBRIDGE Junction 220 - LONDON Scala21 - CARDIFF Globe22 - OXFORD Bullingdon23 - TUNBRIDGE WELLS ForumBRILLIANT LIGHT (2CD/2LP)1. Waiting For The Right Time2. Bring Me To My Knees3. It Hit Me4. You’ll Remember Me5. Swift Street6. Consider Me7. Coley Point8. It’s Just A Game (That We Were Playing)9. Never In The Moment10. Gotta Get Things Right In My Life11. Waiting For The Wheels To Come Off12. Don’t Walk Away13. Hey Don’t Lose Your Nerve14. Everything We Need5. Let The Water Wash Over You (Don’t You Know)16. Long Distance Tears17. The Circus Made The Town18. Flying By The Seat Of Our PantsPHOTOGENE (BONUS CD/LP)1. Brixton Market2. Cathedral Rocks3. Jeffrey Street4. Tomorrow's Another Day5. Herne Hill6. Sunblinded7. Granville Arcade8. The Effra Coffin9. Just A Game Reprise10. Gonna Be Alright11. Colombia Road Market

“there’s always been a sense of a tasteful restraint to the studio albums but unleashed on stage with their raspy vocals and heartland rock and soul, they’re like a power station on steroids.”

FOLK RADIO

“This is a proper old school live album, makes you want to go to a gig”

ROBERT ELMS, BBC LONDON

“songs like This Is Not a Love Song and and Stay True which come at you one after the other; are destined to make ‘new fans’ wonder why these kids aren’t topping the bill at Glastonbury with their magic formula and bittersweet songs.”

THE ROCKING MAGPIE