Moby News & UK Tour Dates

Moby released a new single on Mute on the 4th of November to coincide with his first UK tour for nearly two years.

'In This World', the follow up to 'Extreme Ways', is one of the highlights from Moby's Number 1 album "18", which has now sold over 3 million copies worldwide and is one of the UK's Top 10 most consistent selling albums of the year.

The follow up to the multi-award winning and ten million selling album "Play", "18" was released earlier this year and entered the charts at Number 1 in 12 different countries around the world - including the UK. As well as hitting the top spot, it was also a top 5 entry in an additional 8 countries including the US, where it was a new entry at number 4. Six months after its release, "18" has achieved platinum sales status in the UK, France, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Portugal and Australia, as well as gold sales status in the USA,Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong, Germany and Holland.

Moby album sales in the last two years total 12 million, including 4 million in the UK, France & Germany alone. In these last two years Moby has played to 1.25 million people with more than half of these in Europe.

Recently nominated for two MTV Europe Music Awards 2002, Moby has been invited to play at the ceremony in Barcelona on the 14th of November.

Moby won the Best Producer award for his "18" album at the recent Q Magazine Awards. He beat a short list that included Rick Rubin for The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By The Way", Tony Visconti & David Bowie for "Heathen" and Mark Pythian & Coldplay for "Rush Of Blood To The Head". He recently won the Best Cinematography In A Video award for 'We Are All Made Of Stars' at the recent MTV Video Music Awards.

Channel 4 will host a special Moby Night on the 6th of November with three programmes, Snapshots Of Moby, All Back To Mine and Moby Live, throughout the evening.


Moby will be touring in the UK & Europe from October to December this year as part of an extensive World Tour. These are his first UK live dates since 2000 and he will return to play summer festivals in the summer of 2003.

Live Dates:
16th Nov Waterfront, Belfast (sold out)
17th Nov The Point, Dublin
20th Nov Academy, Birmingham (sold out)
21st Nov Lomax, Stoke
23rd Nov M.E.N.A., Manchester
24th Nov Brighton Centre, Brighton (sold out)
25th Nov City Hall, Sheffield
26th Nov Northumbria University, Newcastle (sold out)
28th Nov Wembley Arena, London
30th Nov S.E.C.C., Glasgow

CD copies of 'In This World' will include exclusive new tracks 'Piano & Strings' and 'Downhill' while the 12" releases will feature brand new mixes of 'In This World' by AFTC, Slacker, Push, T & F and Moltosugo
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