Hannah Aldridge announces July 2015 UK tour in support of her debut album Razor Wire

Hannah Aldridge is steeped in the music of Nashville and Muscle Shoals, the two cities where she was raised, as her father Walt Aldridge – a Muscle Shoals legend and much-honoured Nashville songwriter, musician and producer – plied his craft.

There is stark contradiction between the “real” and loving Hannah and the hard-loved, almost-fictitious character she becomes when writing songs, trekking through life’s darkly carnal sides. The real Hannah, a striking 5-foot-11 blonde, smiles frequently, affably when discussing her music and her life. The mention of her son sparks a generous gleam in her deep green eyes. “My character is someone who will kill somebody, get high. This person is an outlaw and is also somebody that understands the difference between good and bad. My character is someone who says ‘this is not right, but I’m doing it anyway.’…I would never ride a motorcycle, but you know she would,” says Hannah, putting a fingertip on the cheek of the hard blonde in the cover photo. The girl on the album cover, in her mind and in her lyrics, does all of the above and much more as she drags the soft-spoken “real Hannah” out of her everyday existence and into the musty magnolia darkness where characters question the darker side of life. “People expect girls to be more refined. But I’ve been to rehab, got sober, been married, divorced, had a kid when I wasn’t married, went to college all the way as a single mom.”

In the end, Razor Wire is where the “dark” Hannah and the sweetly profound young mother mingle. “This album is about learning to be a grownup, learning to face the world alone. It’s about being brave enough to look people in the eye and just say ‘This is who I am – imperfections and all.’” And that’s just what she does. And the listener is the beneficiary.

Hannah Aldridge · July 2015 UK Tour 

JULY

Friday 3                   London                                          Private House Concert

Saturday 4               Easton, Suffolk                               Maverick Festival 2015

Sunday 5                 Birmingham                                  Kitchen Garden Café

Tuesday 7                Nottingham                                  The Maze                    with guest Don Gallardo

Thursday 9              Plymouth                                      The B-Bar                    with Don Gallardo

Friday 10                 Bristol                                           The Golden Lion          with Don Gallardo & The Rosellys

Saturday 11            Gainsborough, Lincs.                     Private House Concert

Sunday 12               Winchester                                  The Railway

Monday 13             Brighton                                        The Greys

Tuesday 14             London                                          Green Note                  co-headline with Don Gallardo