TEXAS will play Hull City Hall on April 28 on their 25th anniversary tour, An Evening With Texas.

Sharleen Spiteri and her Scottish band will "present the findings of their 25 years in pop" in a new, intimate arrangement, in which Sharleen will discuss her career and the band will play as a four-piece skiffle ensemble as punctuation points.

The tour will run from April 18 to May 6 and is preceded by this month's release of Texas 25, The Truth & Soul Sessions, a retrospective that comes in a range of formats, including a 12-track CD, deluxe 2CD pack and red vinyl.

In addition, a limited-edition box set contains the album on deluxe 2CD and red vinyl, along with photographic prints, a certificate of authenticity signed by Spiteri and an 80-page hardback book, compiled by the band, that features new and never-seen-before images from the group's history.

Texas 25 contains four new songs and eight Texas hits reworked and rerecorded for 2015 with New York City soul outfit Truth & Soul, who have worked with Amy Winehouse and Adele.

Among the new numbers is the single Start A Family, written by Texas stalwarts Spiteri and Johnny McElhone with newcomers Karen-Anne and Jack Townes and accompanied by a video starring long-time Texas fan Alan Rickman, who memorably danced the tango with Spiteri in a previous video, In Demand, in 2000.

Further new songs are Supafly Boy, Say Goodbye and Are You Ready on an album recorded in Truth & Soul's Queens studio and mixed in the Nashville studios run by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.

As well as fresh material, Texas 25 provided a chance for Spiteri and co to hear the likes of Black Eyed Boy, Halo, I Don't Want A Lover, Say What You Want, Summer Son and The Conversation with new ears. "It was incredible to be able to reflect on our body of work after 25 years and re-work the tracks in a way that somehow is the very essence of what we've always been about: soul music," she says.