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TLC will sing some old songs and some new songs at London's KOKO on May 9

  • March 20, 2017
  • Brad O'Mance

'Hat 2 da Back' hitmakers TLC will play their first ever (!) UK 'gig' at London's KOKO on May 9, it's been announced.

The 'intimate' show is in support of their kick­starter-funded new album, which is appar­ently out in the summer.

Tickets go on sale on March 24, which is quite literally this Friday.

In other TLC-related news, the writers behind 'No Scrubs' — aka Kevin Briggs, Kandi Burruss and Tameka Cottle — have been ret­ro­act­ively added to the song­writ­ing credits for Ed Sheeran's quite popular 'Shape Of You'.

The news was first alluded to by Kandi via her Instagram account:

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Congrats #edsheeran @teddysphotos for having the #1 album! & thank you for allowing @majorgirl & I to share in the success of #ShapeOfYou! #1 for 7 weeks! This is how I dance every time this song comes on. #ShapeOfYou #Blessings

A post shared by Kandi Burruss (@kandi) on Mar 17, 2017 at 4:44pm PDT

Fans then had a quick look at the ASCAP credits and lo and behold the song now lists the three extra writers alongside original 'scribes' Ed, Steve Mac and John McDaid. The sim­il­ar­it­ies between the two songs had been mentioned a couple of times before, ie every fucker's done an acoustic cover of the two on YouTube.

What a tune though:

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