STEVE HARRIS's BRITISH LION is continuing to write songs for upcoming third album
26-08-2024
In a new interview with Australia’s Heavy, IRON MAIDEN bassist and founder Steve Harris was asked if he has commenced work on the third album from his BRITISH LION side project. He responded: “Yeah. We’ve got two new songs already in the set anyway. We did a lot of new songs before ‘The Burning’ album. We played them live quite a lot — probably two-thirds of the album, actually, we played live before we actually recorded it. So we’ve got two new songs now in the set and we’ll just keep adding new songs as they come along. So that’s the idea anyway.”
BRITISH LION recently announced new tour dates, including first-ever tour stops in Australia and New Zealand, starting in Perth on August 31, with dates in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and a stop in Auckland, New Zealand on September 15. The band will then return to Japan for the first time in six years with shows in Osaka and Tokyo before returning to the U.S. for their long-awaited live debut on the West Coast with shows at San Diego’s Brick By Brick on October 3, the world-famous Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles on October 7, and an appearance at Aftershock festival in Sacramento on October 10. TONY MOORE’S AWAKE will be the special guest on all dates with the exception of BRITISH LION‘s performance at Aftershock.
Last summer, BRITISH LION completed a 15-date tour throughout Europe. It included 13 headline tour dates, as well as festival appearances at Hellfest and Sweden Rock Festival.
BRITISH LION‘s second album, “The Burning”, came out in January 2020 in digipack CD, double gatefold vinyl and digital download formats via Explorer1 Music (E1). The LP was recorded, engineered and mixed at Barnyard Studios by Tony Newton and produced by Steve Harris.
BRITISH LION‘s first U.S. tour took place in January and February 2020.
BRITISH LION comprises singer Richard Taylor, guitarists David Hawkins and Grahame Leslie, Harris on bass and keyboards, and drummer Simon Dawson.
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