FOLLOWING the release of the 25-year anniversary reissue of seminal album Jollification, Lightning Seeds are performing a select eight-date UK tour which includes a performance at the De La Warr Pavillion in Bexhill on Friday, September 11.

This date was rearranged after originally being planned for March.

The tour sees frontman Ian Broudie and the band perform Jollification in its entirety.

The Liverpudlians are visiting venues including Bristol Academy, Birmingham Institute and Manchester’s Ritz, as well as Limelight, Belfast, The Academy, Dublin, St Luke’s Glasgow, Sage Gateshead and the De La Warr.

This comes in the wake of Jollification being performed live for the first time in November at landmark sold-out shows at The London Palladium and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

The tour follows the 25-year anniversary reissue of Jollification. The original 1994 LP has sold more than 900,000 copies, receiving critical acclaim and going on to be certified platinum.

The reissue was released digitally as well as on heavyweight black vinyl and limited edition strawberry red and strawberry scented coloured vinyl.

Both vinyl releases include a bonus seven inch with two rare B-sides... Perfect (acoustic version) and Lucifer Sam. The full Jollification tracklist which will be played at the show is Perfect, Lucky You, Open Goals, Change, Why Why Why, Marvellous, Feeling Lazy, My Best Day, Punch And Judy and, finally, Telling Tales.

The group experienced commercial success throughout the 1990s and are well known for their single Three Lions, a collaboration with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner which reached number one in the UK in 1996 and 1998.

The single once again reached No. 1 in the UK in 2018.

In 2014, the songs and career of Ian Broudie

were celebrated in a concert held at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, featuring the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra and performances by Ian McCulloch (Echo And The Bunnymen), Miles Kane (The Last Shadow Puppets), Terry Hall (The Specials), James Skelly

(The Coral) and Broudie himself.