Gabriella Cilmi To Perform With REM And Kaiser Chiefs

Gabriella Cilmi

Gabriella Cilmi joins REM and the Kaiser Chiefs on Sunday October 5th 2009 at the Kallimarmaro Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece, for a special concert as part of MTV GR DAY.

The concert will be the pinnacle of MTV Music Week, a week long celebration of the launch of the music entertainment channel in Greece on October 1st.  The concert marks a very special ambition met for Gabriella, a huge fan of REM.

Gabriella has proved one of the biggest breakthrough acts worldwide this year, with her debut single ‘Sweet About Me’ reaching No.1 in five countries worldwide.  The sound of the Summer, it has spent half the year inside the UK Top 40, including seven weeks inside the Top 10.  Her debut album ‘Lessons To Be Learned’ has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone and has been Top 10 in seven different countries.

One of the youngest performers in music today, she has spent the year proving she can cut it just as much live, with standout festival appearances at Glastonbury, T In The Park and V Festival, and – two weeks shy of her 17th birthday – is about to embark on her first full tour of the UK through October and November. 

Full dates:

THURS OCT 2ND - BIRMINGHAM, ACADEMY 2

TUES OCT 7TH  - BRIGHTON, KOMEDIA

WED OCT 8TH - BRISTOL, THELKA

THURS OCT 9TH - OXFORD, ACADEMY 2

SAT OCT 11TH - NOTTINGHAM, RESCUE ROOMS

SUN OCT 12TH - SHEFFIELD, ACADEMY 2

TUES OCT 14TH - NEWCASTLE, ACADEMY 2

WED OCT 15TH - GLASGOW, CLASSIC GRAND

SUN NOV 2ND - MANCHESTER, CLUB ACADEMY *

MON NOV 3RD - LONDON, SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE

WED NOV 26TH - NORWICH, ARTS CENTRE *

Gabriella breaks up the tour to attend the Q Awards on October 6th, where she is their youngest ever nominee, in the category of Breakthrough Act, and to fly to Sydney for a performance at the Australian Brits, the ARIAs, where she tops the nominee list with a record breaking six nominations.  She performs on Europe’s biggest TV show, Wetten-Das, which is watched by over 15 million people before resuming her UK tour. 

At the end of the tour, Gabriella releases a brand new single, ‘Sanctuary’, on Island Records on 10th November 2008.  At her smoky best, ‘Sanctuary’ is taken from ‘Lessons To Be Learned’.