Chris Rea at the New Theatre in Oxford

Following his sell-out UK & European tour in 2010 and 2009’s UK Top Ten album Still So Far To Go - The Best of Chris Rea, one of the UK’s foremost singers and songwriters is set to return to the UK in 2012 for a full UK tour.

 The tour will be in support of the release of his first new material in over a decade. The elaborate 3CD & 2DVD The Santo Spirito Project will include a brand new studio album and 2 bespoke feature films on DVD, written and directed by Chris. The first feature is a raw and brutally honest chronicle on bullfighting & the second follows a man through the city of Florence in his search for the truth, on a journey which he may or may not wish he began.

 His rich catalogue includes such classic songs as Fool (If You Think It's Over), On the Beach, Let's Dance, Josephine, Stainsby Girls and I Can Hear Your Heartbeat, Working On It, The Road to Hell (Part 2), Auberge, God’s Great Banana Skin and Julia.

The Santo Spirito Project will be released by Rhino UK, a division of Warner Music, on Monday September 5th on CD/DVD only at no more than the price of a normal CD single album and will not be available for digital download until December 2011.

 With support from The Farriers