Ben Folds Five Dates

Ben Folds Five have announced a series of UK tour dates.

After reuniting last year, the original members of the band (Ben Folds, Darren Jessee, Robert Sledge) are set to return to the UK for the first time since Christmas 1999.

In addition to these dates, they will follow last year's 3-CD career retrospective The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective with a new studio album to be released in August.

Dates have been confirmed as follows:

November

23, O2 Academy Bournemouth
24, Nottingham Rock City
26, Dublin Vicar Street
29, Apollo Manchester
30, Academy Glasgow

December

1, O2 Academy Leeds
2, O2 Academy Birmingham
4, O2 Academy Brixton