A Certain Ratio have announced a unique tour that celebrates 45 years of the band’s incredible career. The dates will see A Certain Ratio perform two separate sets each night: the first set will represent the early years of their career from their Factory releases, including ‘All Night Party’ Sextet and Force, through to the next stage of their journey when they joined A&M in the late ‘80s, with songs such as ‘Won’t Stop Loving You’. The band will then reconvene for a set representing ACR from the early to mid-‘90s period, with songs like ’27 Forever’ leading into their most recent releases with tracks from ACR Loco and 1982 and beyond to unreleased forthcoming material.

These very special dates, across intimate venues in the UK and beyond, kick off at London’s Moth Club on 10 November and finish at Band on the Wall in Manchester, the venue that hosted their 33 1/3 anniversary celebrations, which is also the site of The Musicians Collective where the band honed their craft at their earliest performances alongside artists such as Warsaw, The Fall, The Passage, Joy Division and many more.

Since they emerged from the hallowed grounds of the late 70s punk scene, A Certain Ratio have moved with gleeful disregard for boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen them take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, filtered through their own Mancunian lens. From their first release, ‘All Night Party’ (1979, Factory Records) to the present day with their recent album, 1982 (2023, Mute) – home to recent singles ‘Holy Smoke’, the BBC 6Music playlisted ‘SAMO’ and ‘Afro Dizzy’ plus ‘Waiting on a Train’ – they defy expectation.

Don’t miss the ACR 45 tour, a chance to see this most singular of bands performing tracks from across their 45-year career – all in chronological order, so expect classic finale tracks like ‘Shack Up’, ‘Knife Slits Water’ and ‘Si Fimir O Grido’ to hit much earlier in the set – in intimate venues across the UK.