
Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, are out on tour creating their “magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere” as usual with just two guitars and two voices. The two formed their collaboration in 2011 and created two albums in rapid succession, “State of the Union” and “Snake Oil”. You can find our review of their last album “Paper Tigers” here. Subsequent tours took them around the UK, to Ireland and Portugal, including a 14-date stint playing theatres with Eddi Reader and an appearance on The Andrew Marr Show (BBC 1), plus 4-star reviews in Q and R2.
Boo Hewerdine is perhaps best known from his years fronting the much-loved band The Bible but he has since enjoyed a solo career spanning over two decades and written thousands of published songs including those for Eddi Reader, Sia, Chris Difford, Kris Drever and KD Lang. Brooks Williams is an Americana singer-songwriter-guitarist based in the UK (and interviewed in these very pages here) with over 30 years touring and recording, both solo and with artists like Aaron Catlow, the late Rab Noakes, Dan Walsh and Vera van Heeringen. His newest solo album is called “Diamond Days”
Tickets for the tour are available through the artists websites here or here
STATE OF THE UNION TOUR 2025
11 Feb – Montrose Folk Club, Montrose, Scotland
12 Feb – Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Scotland
13 Feb – The Catstrand, Dumfries, Scotland
14 Feb – Barnoldswick Arts Centre, Barnoldswick, Lancashire
15 Feb – Hunmanby Community Centre, Hunmanby, North Yorkshire
16 Feb – The Old Woollen, Farsley, Leeds
19 Feb – The Whitham, Barnard Castle, County Durham
20 Feb – Temperance, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
21 Feb – Folk at the Barlow, Bolton, Greater Manchester
22 Feb – Canopy Theatre, Beccles, Suffolk
23 Feb – Astor Theatre, Deal, Kent
24 Feb – Junction 2, Cambridge
25 Feb – Hoy At Anchor, Leigh On Sea, Essex
26 Feb – Folklore Rooms, Brighton, East Sussex
27 Feb – Lyceum Folk Club, Newport, Wales
28 Feb – Maldon Town Hall, Maldon, Essex
1 Mar – The Railway Inn, Winchester, Hampshire
2 Mar – Sharrington Village Hall, Norfolk
3 Mar – Golden Slippers Presents, Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London