Californian blues-rockers RIVAL SONS will begin touring March 11th with a run of UK dates with BLACK STONE CHERRY, before heading on to mainland Europe for a number of headlining shows.

Guitarist Scott Holiday has released the following on the upcoming tour:

"We're looking forward to getting back to our 'home away from home', Europe, and specifically the UK. Since we were last out there we did a tour of the States and a quick run through Canada, where we pleasantly received an overwhelming response, which is fantastic. This time we'll be joining up with the band Black Stone Cherry for the UK dates - we hear they do really well in the UK, and are a buncha good dudes.

The rest of Europe will see us on our own, headlining again - great response last time, and it looks like this tour is already selling really well. We'll have our follow-up record wrapped up before we leave for the tour (which we're working on feverishly right now), so I suspect we'll be feeling good and fired up to get cracking back on stage every night. Might even sneak a new number in here and there.

Dearest UK and European friends - we see you are starved of the rock 'n' roll - famished even - and that makes us sad. No one deserves that! So now, we will bring you the rock 'n' roll sandwich. That's us... the Rival Sons. See ya soon."

Rival Sons tour dates are as follows:

March (with Black Stone Cherry)

11 - Norwich, UK - UEA
12 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City
14 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Academy
15 - Liverpool, UK - O2 Academy
17 - Sheffield, UK - O2 Academy
18 - Manchester, UK - Academy
19 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
21 - Edinburgh, UK - HMV Picture House
22 - Aberdeen, UK - Lemontree
23 - Inverness, UK - Ironworks
24 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
26 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy
27 - Southampton, UK - Guildhall
28 - London, UK - HMV Forum

March

30 - Hamburg, Germany - Uebel & Gefährlich

April

2 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
3 - Oslo, Norway - John Dee
4 - Bergen, Norway - Garage
6 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
7 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega Small Hall
8 - Schijndel, Netherlands - Paaspop Festival
9 - Brussels, Belgium - AB Box
11 - Paris, France - Fleche D'Or

Rival Sons are due to release a special redux version of their 2011 breakthrough album, Pressure & Time, on March 12th.

Following its release in 2011, Pressure & Time landed in the charts in a number of countries, and also featured in numerous "album of the year" polls. Now, to celebrate its success, Pressure & Time is being released as a limited edition CD version with two bonus tracks - 'Company Man' and 'This Life On The Road' - plus a bonus DVD featuring the following videos:

* 'Gypsy Heart', 'Pressure And Time' and 'Soul' live from High Voltage festival 2011

* 'Pressure And Time' live backstage at Werchter festival 2011

* 'Pressure And Time', 'All Over The Road' and 'Get What's Coming' official music videos

* Pressure & Time promotional trailer