All the 70s, 80s and 90s music icons with huge UK tours coming up | LSV44ZW | 2024-03-23 21:08:01
This yr is already promised to be an incredible one for reside music within the UK – and now issues have gotten even better after a string of pop and rock icons announced huge shows.
In April, Manchester will open its model new Co-op Stay Area, a 23,500-capacity purpose-built concert venue – American rock band the Black Keys will be the first musical act to carry out there.
Earlier this week, Fleetwood Mac singer and legendary rockstar Stevie Nicks introduced her first string of consecutive UK exhibits since means again in 1989, with live shows pencilled in for Glasgow, Manchester, and London.
And as if that wasn't sufficient, a string of giant music icons from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s have announced a run of gigs in the UK over the summer time and autumn durations.
Let's have a look at who's gracing UK levels in the subsequent few months.
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac legend and rock singer& Stevie Nicks& last performed a string of exhibits in the UK in 1989 – however that's about to vary, with a run of dates planned for July 2024.
The long-lasting American singer and songwriter, 75, is right down to play exhibits in Glasgow (July 6), Manchester (July 9), after which London as part of Hyde Park's BST pageant (July 12), with an earlier date additionally pencilled in for Dublin (July 3).
That Glasgow concert will probably be Stevie's first present in the UK of any type since before the Covid pandemic – she last carried out as a part of Fleetwood Mac at Wembley Stadium in 2019.
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Moist Wet Moist
Seventies and eighties pop legends Wet Wet Wet have announced a major comeback tour across the UK for 2025, with over 25 dates within the calendar for the Love Is All Round hitmakers.
The tour will begin in January 2025, opening at the Corn Trade in Cambridge (Jan 28), earlier than travelling to Basingstoke (Jan 29), Bournemouth (Jan 30), and Stoke-on-Trent (Jan 31) throughout the rest of the month.
The tour will proceed in the course of the first two weeks of February 2025 earlier than happening pause for a couple of months. Things decide again up once more in Glasgow (Oct 10), Edinburgh (Oct 11), Sheffield (Oct 14), Birmingham (Oct 17), Liverpool (Oct 18), and Salford (Oct 19), as well as a number of different cities and cities, earlier than wrapping up in London (Oct 26).
Nevertheless, the tour will see the band performing without their most well-known lead singer, Marti Pellow, who left the group in 2017. Former Liberty X singer and The Voice winner Kevin Simm now fronts the band.
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Jeff Lynne's ELO
Seventies rock legends the Electrical Mild Orchestra have announced that their next tour, which has been given the identify Over and Out, might be their final ever, after performing to devoted audiences for over 50 years.
The present iteration of the band features only one of many unique members, Jeff Lynne, who the group are at present named after. In the meantime, keyboardist and guitarist Richard Tandy – who joined the band in 1971 – will accompany him.
No UK dates have been introduced for the Over and Out tour simply but but an enormous string of exhibits in america have been confirmed, indicating that a European leg and a UK leg of the tour might be announced imminently.
10cc
Another main 1970s group set to play a run of UK live shows is 10cc – the band are already in the midst of a UK Biggest Hits tour but have added increasingly dates after a number of live shows (which have already been played) bought out.
The group hit the large time in 1973 when their single Rubber Bullets went to number one, followed by I'm Not in Love in 1975 and Dreadlock Holiday in 1978 – both songs went to number one in the UK and became large hits internationally.
Founding member Graham Gouldman is the only unique member still touring as part of the band, with different founders corresponding to Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, and Kevin Godley having left the group halfway by way of the 1970s.
10cc presently include Gouldman, drummer Paul Burgess (who joined in 1973), Rick Fenn (who joined in 1977), and two further touring musicians who linked up with the group in recent times.
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Smashing Pumpkins & Weezer
Nineties various rock legends Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer have announced that they're heading out on a joint tour of the UK in the summer, with dates planned at a number of the largest venues within the country.
Each bands hit the big-time within the mid-90s, with the Smashing Pumpkins albums Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie & the Infinite Unhappiness being certified gold and platinum in the UK respectively. Meanwhile, two of Weezer's self-titled debut albums, released in 1994 in 2001, went gold within the UK.
The tour will start in June, with dates planned for several major cities within the UK. Together, the 2 bands shall be among the first American teams to ever play on the newly unveiled Co-op Area in Manchester.
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Chris De Burgh
Singer-songwriter Chris De Burgh has introduced a 50th anniversary UK tour in celebration of his career, which saw him turn into one of the biggest-selling acts of the 1980s.
The tour will include seven dates, spread throughout February and March 2025, which can see him performing some of his largest hits, including The Woman in Purple, which reached primary within the UK and have become a world hit.
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Shed Seven
Nineties Britpop band Shed Seven have introduced a tour to have fun the 30th anniversary of their debut album Change Giver, which kickstarted their career and made them one of the largest names in British rock on the time.
After three many years within the enterprise, the band lastly secured their first primary album earlier this yr with A Matter of Time.
The tour kicks off in November with 23 dates scheduled – the tour will proceed into December earlier than coming to an finish on December 14 in London. The band, from York, gained't be enjoying their hometown on this specific tour, but have live shows booked in Sheffield and Hull.
Nevertheless, before the tour properly kicks off, the band might be enjoying two exhibits atthe York Museum Gardens on July 19 and July 20. Tickets for these exhibits are still on sale.
Talking concerning the tour, Shed Seven stated: 'This tour is our method of saying thanks to all our unimaginable followers, each previous and new.'
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