THE ABSTRACT IS BACK

Q-TIP ANNOUNCES UK LIVE DATES

Grammy Award winning rapper, producer, actor and hip hop superstar Q-Tip is to return for two UK dates at the end of August 2011. Following the road block at London’s YoYo, Notting Hill Arts club for The Abstract’s recent DJ set, he is due to return to the capital for a one off live show at London’s IndigO2 on Friday 26 August 2011.

Hot on the heels of “Q-Tip & Friends” – a celebration of Hip-Hop through the lens of an iconoclast at the 7th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival (BHF) in July, t

he New York native, and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ), Q-Tip, AKA Kamaal the Abstract, is back in the UK for a series of one off live shows at Manchester Academy and London’s IndigO2.

Described by the Guardian as ‘A man who tours even less frequently than he records’, these one off shows are a ‘must’ for all true lovers of hip hop in its purest form!

MANCHESTER:

Tuesday 23^rd AUGUST

Manchester Academy UMSU, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PR

www.ticketline.co.uk

LONDON:

Friday 26th AUGUST

The IndigO2, Peninsular Square, O2 Arena, Greenwich, London SE10 0DX

www.ticketmaster.co.uk