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De Montfort Hall are opening up their gardens for a series of large-scale outdoor events this August #gigsinthegardens...
Friday 16 August: Bugzy Malone, Yxng Bane and Wretch 32
Bugzy Malone
Mancunian wordsmith Bugzy Malone is one of the UK’s brightest grime talents.
The artist’s debut album Walk With Me reached Number Two on the UK iTunes album chart and his music videos have had millions of views on YouTube. His freestyle submission on the Radio 1/1 Extra YouTube channel was the first to hit one million views, helping dub Bugzy The Evil Genius.
Yxng Bane
Yxng Bane first made waves when he dropped Lone Wolf on Soundcloud two years ago as a 19 year old.
Despite being an unknown artist without a following, the song amassed 790,000 plays. Since then Yxng Bane’s released a stream of dancehall-fused rap and R&B tracks and is yet to release an official music video that hasn’t topped a million views.
Wretch 32
North Londoner Wretch 32 has come a long way since his days with Grime collective Combination Chain Gang.
In 2011, the rapper hit the peak of the UK charts with Don’t Go, one of three top five charting singles from his debut Black and White.
Nudging a million followers on Twitter, Wretch 32 will be charming the outdoor crowds of De Montfort Hall this summer.
Tickets £38.50 in advance
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De Montfort Hall are opening up their gardens for a series of large-scale outdoor events this August #gigsinthegardens...
Saturday 17 August: Busted and Scouting for Girls
Busted
Busted broke into public consciousness in 2003 with a fistful of hook-laden pop songs.
This summer the group return to De Montfort Hall with Half Way There, a collection of semi-autobiographical numbers charting growing up, the importance of friendship and light-hearted mentions about Macaulay Culkin.
Lifelong fans of the band can expect to love their new material while rejoicing to a choice selection of their older hits.
Professor Green
Firmly established as one of the crossover superstars of British music, the Hackney born and raised rapper otherwise known as Stephen Manderson has released two Top 3 albums and amassed a career tally of over 2.5 million combined sales in the UK alone. He has completed four headline tours and performed on the main stages of countless festivals such as Glastonbury, V Festival and Wireless. Signed to Relentless/Sony his new new single “Unruly” dropped Feb 16th.
Over the past couple of years Professor Green has presented five critically acclaimed BBC documentaries and has just finished his first documentary series for Channel 4 called “Working Class White Men” which tx’s Jan 2018. He’s also published his autobiography 'Lucky' and continues his ongoing work as Patron’s of anti-suicide charity CALM and trauma charity TRANSFORM TRAUMA.
Scouting for Girls
Scouting for Girls’ debut LP featured three Top 10 hits - She’s So Lovely, Elvis Ain’t Dead and Heartbeat.
The pop-centric London trio will be bringing a collection of new material and classic songs on tour this summer.
In August, fans can expect to hear their piano-laden melodies in the verdant gardens of De Montfort Hall.
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We are opening up our gardens for a series of large-scale outdoor events this August. Join us for a summer of fun…
Indie icons, Kaiser Chiefs continue their reign of being one of Britain’s most treasured bands. They will be performing tracks from across their extensive catalogue of work, hot on the heels of the release of their new album.
The Vaccines come to De Montfort Hall’s gardens followingtheir sold-out 2019 tour. The return to their roots with new album Combat Sports; ranging from pure rock nroll through to powerpop. They are without a doubt one of the biggest and mostadored British Bands of 21st century.
Birmingham rockers The Twang formed in 2004 and are best known for songs including Twit Twoo, Elusive Soul and Put It On The Dancefloor.
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De Montfort Hall are opening up their gardens for a series of large-scale outdoor events this August #gigsinthegardens...
Friday 23 August: Groove Armada (DJ Set), Pete Tong, Danny Howard
Groove Armada
Groove Armada have been one of the best loved and biggest selling dance acts for more than two decades.
Andy Cato and Tom Findlay began putting 12 inches together for London clubbers in the mid-90s before striking gold with downbeat anthem At The River.
Seven albums later, the duo continue to push their mellifluous beats and blazing live shows for the enchantment of dance fans the world over.
Pete Tong
Few dance DJs can claim the influence that Pete Tong has commanded for the past 20 years.
As the scene’s global ambassador, Pete Tong’s Essential Mix continues to act as taste setter while the DJ, now resident in the US, continues to push boundaries – in the clubs and on the radio - for all denominations of electronic dance music.
Danny Howard
Dance music broadcaster, DJ and producer Danny Howard gets a million listeners tuning in to his Saturday afternoon Dance Anthems slot on Radio 1.
His work as a music producer has seen him garner a global audience and was helped in no small way when dance music legend Erick Prydz asked Danny to remix Break Down The Doors.
These days Danny is capitalising on the re-emergent electronic dance scene with summer dates across the UK and Europe.
Tickets £38.50 in advance
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Saturday 24 August - a day of up and coming artists, curated by BBC Music Introducing... East Midlands
Tickets £20 in advance
Under 18s £5
Under 5s free but still require a ticket
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Synth-pop outfit Years & Years’ sound has been described as electropop mixing R&B and 90s house sounds. Their biggest single King from their debut record reached number one in the UK singles and made top 10 charts around the world.
With their second album PaloSanto, lead singer Olly Alexander’s creativeambition has found its pure physical pulse. Years and Years have crafted theirown special landmarks that feel intuitively connected to great British popclassicism while standing bolt upright on a world stage next to Drake, TheWeeknd and Rihanna.
The confidence that propels the full-blooded fantasia of Palo Santo connects to where we are as a country, as a world, at a stark moral cross roads, between left and right, old and young, hypocrisy and truth, rightand wrong. It is about pop music taking the reigns, steering us out of theterrestrial universe and rethinking everything from the outside. It’s about outlier pop as futurism, once more, about offering solutions when the world is failing you.
Ultimately, it is driven by a deeply personal and only occasionally otherworldly life force. “Now I’m not afraid of what people think of me,” says Olly Alexander. “That’s a new feeling for me.”
Jax Jones brings a compellingly idiosyncratic approach to pop music, underpinned by a belief that pop — and house, and every other sort of music — is at its best when the rules are bent slightly out of shape. Peppered with London slang and pop culture references that didn’t always make sense to other writers who just wanted their songs to hit as many demographics as possible, Jax’ unique songs resonate with his thousands of fans.
“I try to make everything super real,” Jax says. “When youmake it colloquial and conversational it doesn’t sound like traditional writing.” And that, he says, is where the magic comes from. “I used to rein myself in,” he acknowledges. “When I was starting out in the music industry I’d be ashamed of how I spoke — this Chinese Turkish boy from south east London who could solve the mysteries of quantum mechanics, but nobody would listen because of how he spoke. It felt like a real boys’ club for privately-educated people talking about Chelsea.” And now? “Now it feels like the music industry’s gone rogue,” he grins. “One of my favouritethings about success is that I can finally act like the person I truly am.”
Nina Nesbitt
Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt has been taking the world by storm. It's been non-stop for Nina since signing her new deal with Cooking Vinyl, a tour of the US with Jake Bugg, sold-out UK and US headline tours, winning the Evolution Award at the SSE Scottish Music Awards, covers of tmrw magazine and Rollacoaster, BBC Breakfast, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. To top it off, she was asked to collaborate with emerging female artists, Sasha Sloan and Charlotte Lawrence on a new track ‘Psychopath’ for the launch of Spotify ‘Louder Together’ – Nina’s reach globally has also been illustrated by the reports of both Spotify and Apple promoting Nina’s single in New York’s Times Square on huge billboards.
Tickets £48.50 in advance
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We are opening up our gardens for a series of large-scale outdoor events this August. Join us this summer for #gigsinthegardens...
Monday 26 August: Bardi Symphony Orchestra: music from stage and screen
The Bardi Symphony Orchestra are promising a spectacular finale to our Gigs in the Gardens summer series.
The local musicians will be performing a raft of popular film and stage classics before a firework encore.
The performance’s first half will feature The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back, Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission, The Lion King Suite, Moon River, the Les Miserables suite, plus music from Out Of Africa and Pirates Of The Caribbean.
The second half will include scores from The Big Country, West Side Story, The Pink Panther and Phantom of the Opera, a James Bond medley and a singalong finale from The Sound of Music.
For the firework encore, the audience will be treated to some of film composer John Williams’ most popular works, including Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and ET.
Tickets £10
Children under 18 go free but still require a ticket
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Featuring nine of the cast this is a brand-new show that offers fans a chance to get up close and personal with cast members from the global hit TV series. The 90-minute stage show features solos, duets, trios, and group numbers choreographed to popular hit songs along with original music from the show.
Cast members starring in the expanded live stage show in October 2019 include: Isaiah Peck (Henry), Shelby Bain (Amy), Alexandra Chaves (Piper), Berkley Ratzlaff (Davis), Sage Linder (Summer), Dylan Ratzlaff (Jacquie), Liam Mackie (Finn) and Noah Zulfikar (Kingston).
The show will also star Briar Nolet (Richelle) who recently wowed judges and executive producer Jennifer Lopez with her latest performance during the Redemption round on America’s favourite dance show, World of Dance.
Tickets £44 £31.50
VIP upgrade - extra £72.50 - available via VIP Nation only
Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman are heading out on tour.
With a selection of old favourites, songs you haven’t heard before and some you wish you’d never heard in the first place. The songs are hilarious and topical - the glamour is unstoppable.
With three Olivier Award nominations and over 25 million YouTube and Facebook hits for Cheap Flights and their incredibly rude Christmas song how can you possibly miss them?
"Cabaret Heaven." ***** Metro
"Outrageous... seductive." **** Guardian
"I can’t recommend this show highly enough." ***** Mail on Sunday
"Hilarious." **** Telegraph
"Engages the brain as well as the funny-bone." ***** Times
£26.50
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain!
Tap your toes with the royalty of the ukulele scene, the independent rock-stars of the bonsai guitar, who have plucked and sung, joked and whistled with Clean Bandit, Robbie Williams, Madness, Cat Stevens, The Ministry of Sound and Blue Peter.
The world’s very first Ukulele Orchestra is not just about ukuleles; it is about entertainment, joy, fun, strum and artistry.
Tickets £27 £25
Group Offer - Groups of 10+ receive 10% off tickets
Like the name says it’s a Comedy Club 4 Kids!
Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires). We have the best comedians from the UK and world circuit doing what they do best… but without the rude bits!
"A highlight for children... giving them a taste of some of the biggest names in comedy with the fun, rowdy feel of a real comedy club." The Guardian
"The perfect way to entertain the whole family." Three Weeks
"The ethos is just right." The Daily Telegraph
"This show was great!"
The Scotsman
Tickets
£8
Family of four £20
This show sees Rhod as funny as ever, but like never before. Raw, personal and brutally honest; no more lies, no more nonsense. Tour extended due to phenomenal demand.
As seen on 'Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience', ‘'Would I Lie to You?’, 'Taskmaster’, ‘Qi’, 'The Apprentice: You’re Fired’, 'Live at The Apollo', 'Have I Got News for You?’, and much more…
"Darkly hilarious. Gilbert's most satisfying show for a decade. It's good to have him back." Times
"Volcanic, high octane humour. Uproariously funny."Guardian
"Britain's crossest comic roars back in style. Hilarious tour-de-force." Telegraph
Tickets £29
Please note this is the same show as March 2019
Featuring her greatest hits and some phenomenal new genres of music, Susan Boyle will be sure to leave you in awe, just as she did ten years ago, stepping on to the Britain’s Got Talent stage.
Tickets £56.50 £46.50 £34
A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved family favourite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance.
Twenty-five years on, composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerising soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the groundbreaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, projection, stage and costume designs.
The 25th Anniversary show catapults Riverdance into the 21st century and will completely immerse you in the extraordinary and elemental power of its music and dance. Twenty-five years on, both new and devoted fans of all ages will once again fall in love with the magic of Riverdance – the original, the best.
£54.50 tiered stalls, front circle
£49 side circles, rear circle and upper circle
£39.50 upper circle