ZZ Prime have introduced they’re lastly returning to the UK in 2024 after 5 years.

“It’s been some time since we’ve been in a position to examine in with our European followers, so it goes with out saying that we’re enthusiastic about coming again this summer time,” frontman Billy Gibbons enthused in a press launch.

The grand return comes two years after the passing of ZZ Prime bassist Dusty Hill, and the present is bound to honour him. “We’re wanting ahead to a superb time,” Gibbons says. “That goes for each these within the viewers and on stage.”

The band shall be hitting the UK simply as soon as to play the OVO Area Wembley on 11 July, in addition to a plethora of European international locations in June and July, beginning in Sweden earlier than shifting to Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Whereas the group haven’t launched a recent album formally since 2012, ZZ Prime have been powerfully revisiting their roots. Their Grammy nominated 2019 documentary, ZZ Prime: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, highlighted the true allure of the band, a heart-warming foray into their historical past.

Soundtrack RAW noticed the group re-recording traditional tracks, respiratory a breath of recent life into them. Gibbons famous that the classes have been “a return to [ZZ Top’s] roots.”

“It was simply us and the music, no viewers of 1000’s, no concession stands, no car parking zone social hour, no phalanx of tour buses,” he displays. “Simply us.”

“The Director prompt we discover a technique to illustrate the early type from the beginning of our five-plus a long time run,” he continues. “Gruene Corridor, the oldest dance corridor in Texas, was chosen as a becoming backdrop to duplicate the look of the band’s very beginnings. After we arrived… we picked up the devices and commenced an unplanned jam session. Happily, our stage engineers have been available with tape machines in place to seize the performances that went down. That grew to become, in essence, the soundtrack to the movie and now it’s additionally an audio doc of ZZ Prime’s early beginnings.  Nonetheless going sturdy in the present day.”

Tickets for ZZ Prime’s will go on sale on 15 December. For more information, head to the band’s official web site.