Dirty Honey will be back in Europe in 2023. Their headline tour kicks off in Norwich on 21 January 2023, closing in Southampton on 31 January 2023. The band then head into mainland Europe until March.
It was a busy year for Dirty Honey, releasing their Dirty Honey EP/LP and touring throughout Europe through June and July 2022. They had slots with Guns’ N’ Roses, KISS and Rival Sons alongside festival dates and their own headline shows.
The first UK gig was this year’s Download. “We knew it was gonna be a special gig for us because of the hype,” Marc LaBelle told MetalTalk. “But we couldn’t have expected the welcome we received. There were 7,000 people there at 11 a.m. It was crazy.”
Dirty Honey rolled into the UEA as part of their first European dates, and Norwich loved the band. MetalTalk’s Paul Monkhouse said, “you can bet that they’re headed towards the arenas, their name soon to be twenty feet high on billboards and marquees.”
“There were definitely some Dirty Honey fans already here at the start of the night that were really excited to see us,” Marc LaBelle told MetalTalk. “Whenever you look out, and you see some of your own t-shirts at a support slot gig, you know that’s obviously very flattering. But we’re out here to prove ourselves and to prove that the state of rock ‘n’ roll is alive and well, especially in America.”
Their self-titled debut album was released last year, which MetalTalk described as “a beautiful compendium of thumping enraged hard rock stompers and melancholic ballads.”
The future of proper rock is here, and they’re wearing battered hats and sunglasses.
Mainland Europe Dates
Thurs 2nd February 2023 Trix, Antwerp BELGIUM
Fri 3rd February 2023 Helios 37, Cologne GERMANY
Sat 4th February 2023 Doornroosje, Nijmegen NETHERLANDS
Mon 6th February 2023 Effenaar, Eindhoven NETHERLANDS
Tues 7th February 2023 La Maroquinerie, Paris FRANCE
Thurs 9th February 2023 Upload, Barcelona SPAIN
Fri 10th February 2023 Wurlitzer Ballroom, Madrid SPAIN
Sun 12th February 2023 Dynamo, Zurich SWITZERLAND
Mon 13th February 2023 Mühle Hunziken, Rubigen SWITZERLAND
Tues 14th February 2023 Legend, Milan ITALY
Wed 15th February 2023 Monk Club, Rome ITALY
Fri 17th February 2023 Conrad Sohm, Dombim AUSTRIA
Sat 18th February 2023 Musikkantine, Augsburg GERMANY
Sun 19th February 2023 Szene Wien, Vienna AUSTRIA
Wed 22nd February 2023 Badehaus, Berlin GERMANY
Thurs 23rd February 2023 Headcrash, Hamburg GERMANY
Sat 25th February 2023 Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen DENMARK
Sun 26th February 2023 Pustervik, Gothenburg SWEDEN
Mon 27th February 2023 John Dee, Oslo NORWAY
Tues 28th February 2023 Debaser, Stockholm SWEDEN
Thurs 2nd March 2023 Tavastia, Helsinki FINLAND