Soulful Aloe Blacc brings tour to Liverpool and Manchester

Oct 20 2011 by Oliver Clay, Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

SOULFUL Aloe Blacc has announced details of an extensive UK headline tour which comes to Manchester and Liverpool in December.

This follows the huge crossover success of I Need A Dollar, which has drawn comparisons with the likes of Marvin Gaye and Gil Scott-Heron.

Blacc famously wrote I Need A Dollar following a redundancy from his then-job, during which he still gigged furiously as an MC, searching for a break.

Dollar began to pick up extensive attention following its use on the HBO show How To Make It in America, before impacting across Europe and the US, almost via word-of-mouth.

Its release through Epic in May eventually led to an extraordinary eight weeks in the UK Top 10, where it peaked at number two.

Aloe Blacc comes to Manchester Academy on December 7 and the O2 Academy, Liverpool, on December 11.