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Celebrating 35 years, Go West were one of the most successful singer/songwriter duos of the 80s. Formed in 1982 by Peter Cox and Richard Drummie, With Cox as lead singer and Drummie on guitar and backing vocals they produced hits such as We Close Our Eyes, Call Me and Don’t Look Down. Go West were voted Best Newcomer at the 1986 Brit Awards. In 1990 their track King of Wishful Thinking featured on the hugely successful soundtrack for the blockbuster smash Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
Originally in the band Q-Tips, Paul Young went solo in the 80s and his career took off with the seminal album No Parlez and so many subsequent top 10 hits such as Wherever I Lay My Hat, which hit the number one slot in 1983 Love of The Common People a current austerity anthem, Everytime You Go Away and Everything Must Change. He is also a Brit Award winner for Best Male vocalist, sings the opening lines on the original Band Aid Single Feed The World and performed at Live Aid in 1984. Paul is a keen chef, biker and fan of all things Mexicana! A family man, always happy to be touring his classic hits as a solo artist or with his Tex Mex/ Americana band Los Pacaminos.
This is the new rescheduled date from Saturday 18 September 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures. We are strongly encouraging everyone aged 11 and over to wear a face mask and are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.
For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
7:30 to 8pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
For full information about our covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.
Please be aware that any of this information may change if guidance is updated. We will keep the website updated with the latest information.
Marillion make a welcome return to De Montfort Hall for their UK Weekender in 2022.
Tickets
- All tickets are to be purchased through De Montfort Hall.
- Any tickets found to be purchased via secondary unofficial ticket agents will be voided and entry to the venue will not be granted.
- To help combat ticket touts and make sure Marillion fans get tickets, the name of the lead booker is printed on all tickets purchased. Your party must arrive together and the lead booker will be required to present ID that matches the name on the tickets.
- Maximum four tickets per person.
- Tickets for the weekend are general admission with balcony seating available on a first come first served basis. You will be able to move freely between seated areas upstairs and standing downstairs, subject to availability.
- Tickets will be scanned on entry and exchanged for a weekend wristband.
Accessible seating
- If you require accessible seating, or have any access requirements, please contact our box office for further advice - 0116 233 3111 or dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk
- Requests will only be accepted from the date of on sale, please do not contact box office in advance of this time to discuss accessible seating.
Security
- For your safety, bag checks will be in operation so please allow extra time to access the venue.
- Large bags and rucksacks larger than an A4 piece of paper are not allowed at the venue, so please do not bring them with you.
Venue Parking
- This is available to pre-book for the weekend, subject to availability. Limited free blue badge parking is available within the grounds, please note this is now fully booked.
- Parking times: Friday 8am - 1:30am, Saturday 6pm - 1:30am, Sunday 6pm - midnight.
Catering
- A real ale bar will be located in the Garden Suite.
- Bar times: Friday and Saturday 6pm - 1am, Sunday 6pm - 12am.
- Kiosks will be available selling fresh sandwiches, snacks, hot and cold drinks.
Children
- No under 14s are permitted in the standing area and all under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Covid guidance
-Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures, where you will see we are strongly encouraging everyone aged 11 and over to wear a face mask. If you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.
Please be aware that any of this information may change if guidance is updated. We will keep the website updated with the latest information.
Jane McDonald returns with her brand new Let the Light In tour.
The BAFTA award-winning star always delivers phenomenal show along with her fantastic live band and backing singers. With stunning production and a new line up of songs her Let the Light In tour promises to be the best one yet.
After her sell out tours of 2018 and 2019 you’ll need to book early to secure your seat for this fabulous evening of music and laughter.
This is the new rescheduled date from Thursday 22 July 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures. We are strongly encouraging everyone aged 11 and over to wear a face mask and are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.
For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
6:30 to 7pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the flat stalls, tiered stalls rows A to O or the left, right or front circle
For full information about our covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.
Please be aware that any of this information may change if guidance is updated. We will keep the website updated with the latest information.
Following the announcement of the new album The Boy Named If, Elvis Costello & The Imposters have announced a UK tour, The Boy Named If & Other Favourites.
Elvis Costello will return with The Imposters (Steve Nieve - keyboards; Pete Thomas - drums; Davey Faragher - bass and backing vocals) along with Charlie Sexton for an extensive UK run of dates.
Ian Prowse will be opening the show, performing songs from his upcoming album, released in February 2022, One Hand on the Starry Plough.
One of the most iconic bands in British music, The Hollies, have moved their UK tour originally scheduled for Autumn 2021 to next year, in order to celebrate their 60th anniversary.
The band said:
"We felt like this is something no other band gets to do, celebrate six decades together, 60 years of these songs that mean so much to us and so many others. We’re incredibly excited performing for everyone on what will be some of the most special shows in the history of The Hollies."
Famed for their soaring, distinctive melodies and brilliantly crafted songs, the 60th anniversary tour will see The Hollies performing their best known hits including He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, The Air That I Breathe, Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress), Bus Stop, Carrie-Anne and Sorry Suzanne.
The line-up includes powerhouse drummer Bobby Elliott, and singer, songwriter, and lead guitarist Tony Hicks, both of whom are original members of the band. They are joined by lead singer Peter Howarth, as well as bass player Ray Stiles, Keyboardist Ian Parker, and Steve Lauri on Rhythm Guitar.
Celebrated as one of the most influential bands from the 1960s British Invasion era alongside the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Hollies have had over 20 world-wide hits, including number one singles in both the US and UK. They have spent an astonishing 263 weeks in the UK top 40 official singles chart, and have been performing continuously since their formation in 1962.
Their cultivated musicianship, coupled with the Hollies’ extensive back catalogue of memorable rock ‘n’ roll tunes, has ensured the longevity of one of the greatest groups to emerge from the early 1960’s British Rock Revolution.
In 1995, they were bestowed the coveted Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution To British Music, and in 2010 were inducted into the American Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for their ‘impact on the evolution, development and perpetuation of Rock and Roll’.
This is the new rescheduled date from Friday 8 October 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
The Drifters are the longest running singing group in pop history still performing live, having enjoyed over 50 hits world wide.
The Drifters were created in 1953 by George Treadwell and Clyde McPhatter. George Treadwell managed the group and laid the foundation of what would make The Drifters one of the greatest groups of all time. Clyde McPhatter was the lead singer of the group that also saw numerous members over the years, but two stood out above the rest Johnny Moore and Ben E King.
The legendary group have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performed for the President of The United States and are listed among the greatest artists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
Performing all the hits, Saturday Night At the Movies, You’re More Than a Number, Come on Over to My Place, Up On the Roof, Under the Board Walk, Kissin in the Back Row, Save the Last Dance for Me, Down on the Beach, Stand By Me, Like Sister and Brother and many many more.
George and Faye’s daughter Tina Treadwell has been in the entertainment industry all her life. She oversaw the careers of the new generation of stars coming through such as Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, Tina also produced Michael Jackson's birthday party in Los Angeles in 2003 and today spearheads The Treadwell Entertainment group.
No other vocal group has achieved as much success artistically or commercially as The Drifters and they remain among the best selling acts of all time.
This is the new rescheduled date from Sunday 30 May 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
Now she’s back in the UK, the country which launched her international stage career, with the new Dream Again tour.
Lea Salonga: Dream Again follows Lea’s single release of the same name, recorded in 2020 with a creative team brought together across three continents and five time zones, to help organisations aiding in COVID-19 relief.
“Returning to the stage and to international touring will be an absolute thrill and I am so excited to get back to the UK, to meet fans again and to perform some of my all-time favourite songs,” the stage icon said.
An Olivier and Tony Award-winning stage sensation – and official Disney Legend as the voice of both Princess Jasmine and Fa Mulan – Lea Salonga’s debut UK tour performances were hailed as ‘spine-tingling’ and ‘simply stunning’.
Don’t miss the musical sensation Lea Salonga in concert as the original Miss Saigon returns once more to the UK stage.
Singer Shaan known for his numerous Bollywood Hits returns to De Montfort Hall to perform his Love In Concert concept for the very first time in the UK.
Shaan launched his singing career with his first album Loveology, followed by Tanha Dil, which topped the charts and was popular worldwide.
Shaan is one of the few playback singers who has sang multiple IIFA Award-winning hits including Chand Sifarish from Fanaa, Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh from 3 Idiots and Jab Se Tere Naina from Saawariya.
Pop icon Adam Ant will be back with his UK tour ANTICS, with a set list that promises to get everyone on their feet Live Music Is Back. Performing his classic chart-topping singles and personal favourites, Adam Ant’s Antics audiences will be thrilled with the return of live music.
"!I’m very much looking forward to playing live again . . . there’s nothing like it ... I hope everyone hasn’t forgotten how to have fun!!" Adam Ant
This is the new rescheduled date from Wednesday 2 March 2022. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
Legendary six time Grammy Award winning recording artist Dionne Warwick has announced her new UK and European concert dates, One Last Time will form part of her Farewell Tour in 2022.
Warwick says, "After almost six decades I’ve decided it’s time to put away my touring trunk and focus on recording, one-off concerts and special events. I still love performing live, but the rigours of travelling every day so far from home, sleeping in a different hotels each night, one concert after the other, is becoming hard. So, I’ve decided to stop touring on that level in Europe…. But I’m not retiring!!"
The first leg of this headline tour, in some of the UK’s most beautiful theatres, will encompass Warwick’s monumental career, with songs from her hugely successful recording catalogue including a selection of classic Warwick, Burt Bacharach and Hal David songs such as I Say A Little Prayer, Do You Know The Way To San Jose, Anyone Who Had A Heart and Walk On By.
Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era (1955-1999), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. She is one of the most charted female vocalists of all time, with 56 of her singles making the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998, and 80 singles making all Billboard charts combined.
This is the new rescheduled date from Tuesday 26 October 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
Get ready as we spice up your life, taking you back for good and hit you one more time with the ultimate 90s party night out.
Our talented cast will have you reaching for the stars as we throw it back to you, for one night only, live on stage, as we celebrate the 1990s.
The music of a generation brought to life with fantastic vocals, genius costumes and of course; all the dance moves you know and love, and don’t worry if you have forgotten, we’ll remind you!
From Take That to Oasis, Spice Girls to Supergrass get ready for this non-stop 90s extravaganza as we set you free and pump up the jam with songs by, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, The Vengaboys, Bryan Adams, Boyzone, Shania Twain, Aqua, Lou Bega, Eternal, Bewitched, Wet Wet Wet, Ace of Base, 2 Unlimited, S Club 7, Gina G, Pulp, Blur, Shampoo, and many more.
There will be no valley to deep, no mountain too high, so come on Barbie let's go party and join us for 90s Live!
Internationally renowned singer, composer and actor David Essex OBE has announced his first major tour in over four years. The UK tour will see him perform much loved hits spanning over his entire repertoire.
David first shot to fame when he went to an audition for the London production of the musical Godspell and was chosen by enthusiastic US producers for the role of Jesus. He received major awards and some ecstatic reviews which saw him lead a cast at the Roundhouse and then at the West End for two years.
Since then David Essex has enjoyed a remarkable career that has combined concerts, records, theatre, composing, films and television with striking success. He has written, recorded and produced albums that have sold millions of copies worldwide. He’s also had twenty-three Top 30 singles in Britain alone. These include the Grammy nominated Rock On which not only topped the charts in Britain and the USA but sold over one million copies. Subsequent singles followed such as Lamplight, Hold Me Close and Gonna Make You A Star which made David a household name. Mayhem ensued throughout the UK, with crowds for his concerts resembling Beatlemania and traffic stopping whenever he appeared.
David has continued to this day to produce and write albums including 2013’s Reflections and has contributed to stage and screen with the likes of Silver Dream Machine taken from Silver Dream Racer, in which he starred.
Acting credits also include That'll Be The Day, its sequel Stardust, Traveller, The Guvnors, Black Prince and more recently BBC TV's EastEnders as the head of the Moon family. Theatre credits include outstanding performances in Evita, Boogie Nights 2, ELF!, Footloose, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects Of Love, plus his own musicals Mutiny! and All The Fun Of The Fair.
David has also written a bestselling poetry book Travelling Tinker Man and Other Rhymes plus two successful autobiographies A Charmed Life and Over The Moon, the latter a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller.
David Essex is the only artiste in the world to have achieved success in all areas of entertainment and continues to break boundaries with his unique talent.
On the tour Essex said: "I've had so many requests to tour again, so I’ve decided to do one more tour. I'm looking forward to touring the UK again, it should be fun."
This is the new rescheduled date from Friday 17 September 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
It's a Rock On Music production - see you there!
Rave On is the 50’s and 60’s Rock and Roll sensation sweeping the nation. Featuring multiple award winning band The Bluejays, a group comprised of stars from West End productions The Buddy Holly Story, Million Dollar Quartet, One Man Two Guvnors and Dreamboats & Petticoats, Rave On transports you back to the fabulous 50’s and the swinging 60’s in stunningly authentic style.
Charting the meteoric rise of Rock and Roll, Rave On is a thrilling tour through music’s most revolutionary decades. Prepare to be enthralled as the Bluejays recreate note perfect renditions of the songs that changed the world forever. Featuring the greatest hits from Rock and Roll’s golden eras, Rave On brings you the sounds of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Neil Sedaka, The Kinks, Connie Francis, Lulu, The Shadows and many more. Rave On is a musical experience like no other.
"The ultimate Rock ‘n’ Roll show!" BBC Radio Scotland
"The Bluejays are the real Rock ‘n’ Roll deal!" Vintage Rock Magazine
"A rocking show with a big difference... we were blown away!" Meridian FM
"The audience couldn't wait to get up and start jitterbugging and jiving!" Southend Theatre Scene
"Immense... faultless... one fantastic band!" Yorkshire Times
This is the new rescheduled date from Thursday 6 May 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
The show will include all the most popular Glenn Miller hits... In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, American Patrol, Little Brown Jug, Tuxedo Junction, Chattanooga Choo Choo and many more.
Please contact us with your personal favourite Glenn Miller number at ray@glennmillerorchestra.co.uk and we will try our best to play it.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra directed by Ray McVay is a truly dazzling musical extravaganza. Audiences of all ages will be thrilled by the sound of this spectacular Big Band.
Direct from The Royal Albert Hall, A Country Night In Nashville recreates the scene of a buzzing honky tonk in downtown Nashville, perfectly capturing the energy and atmosphere of an evening in the home of country music.
Prepare to be transported on a musical journey through the history of Country, featuring songs from its biggest stars both past and present. Hits from Johnny Cash to Alan Jackson, Dolly to The Chicks, Willie Nelson to Kacey Musgraves, are showcased by the amazing Dominic Halpin and the Hurricanes.
With songs including Ring Of Fire, Crazy, Follow Your Arrow, It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere, Need You Now, 9-5, and The Gambler to name just a few, this incredible celebration of country music is a night not to be missed.
This is the new rescheduled date from Wednesday 26 May 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
The ultimate uptown experience returns to a venue near you in 2022! Hugely acclaimed singer-songwriter and pianist Elio Pace is set to thrill audiences as he tours his smash hit award-winning tribute show The Billy Joel Songbook this autumn after a sell out tour across the UK in 2021.
The Billy Joel Songbook pays homage to one of the most iconic musicians, singer-songwriters and composers of the 20th Century, and will once again see Elio and his incredible band celebrating the legendary US musician with a unique blend of pop, rhythm and blues, jazz and rock and roll.
This exciting live show will transport the audience through a catalogue of Joel’s music, performing more than 30 hits including The Longest Time, She’s Always A Woman, An Innocent Man, Uptown Girl, Tell Her About It, The River of Dreams, We Didn’t Start The Fire and Piano Man.
"Only sensational." Sir Terry Wogan
"Elio rocks." Brian May
"Elio is tremendous...I'm a big fan." Huey Lewis
Boyzlife will kick off their colossal 27 city outing in September.
The duo will be backed by a full live band and audiences can expect to hear their recent and first original single The One, co written by Brian and legendary songwriter Guy Chambers, with production by rising producer Jackson, who has honed his skills engineering and programming for the likes of Shawn Mendes and The Libertines. The hit maker duo will also perform many of their greatest hits, from a catalogue which includes a record breaking eighteen number one singles and nine number one albums - plus combined record sales of more than 30million.
Since their inception, Boyzlife have already performed some of their greatest chart hits for over 70,000 fans. Of being back on the road, playing their original material for the very first time, the band says; "We cannot wait to get back on the road and this time playing Boyzlife original material alongside all of our music over the last 25 years. The show will be a rollercoaster through old and new songs and we cannot wait to take our fans on the ride".
In between last year’s tour dates Boyzlife have been busy in the studio writing and creating new music, Brian gives a glimpse into what fans can expect from their studio sessions; "Keith and I grew up in the 80s and 90s, the sound of that era is what made us want to be musicians in the first place. When we first started talking about making this record as Boyzlife’s first studio album, we naturally talked about those influences a lot and have loved bringing these familiar sounds into our studio sessions and onto this record, and cannot wait to take those songs live."
Boyzlife is the supergroup formed by long time pals Keith Duffy and Brian McFadden who previously appeared as members of '90s and '00s boybands Boyzone and Westlife, respectively. With Boyzone, Keith Duffy enjoyed six UK number one singles and 16 out of 17 of their first single releases making the top five. With five number one albums also to their credit, Boyzone achieved worldwide sales of over 25 million records. Brian McFadden has enjoyed similar success, including 12 UK and Ireland number ones as a member of Westlife, and a record breaking seven top spots in a row. The band also boast four number one albums and over 30 million record sales in total. Since Westlife, Brian has embarked on a successful solo career, including a UK number one single with Real to Me.
Strings Attached, the debut album by Boyzlife, featured nine UK number one songs from Boyzone and Westlife, performed by Keith, Brian and accompanied by the world famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The band’s debut record was released in 2020 topping both the UK and Ireland’s iTunes and Amazon music charts immediately, the album charted at number 12 in the UK Official Album Chart.
Keeping the faith to the original sounds of the underground movement that started on the dance floors in the North and eventually swept the nation, including an 11-piece band, with four lead vocalists, performing over 30 original hits. Expect to hear - Dobie Gray “Out On The Floor”, R Dean Taylor “There’s A Ghost In My House”,
Frank Wilson “Do I Love You - Indeed I Do”, Gloria Jones “Tainted Love”, Al Wilson “The Snake”, Yvonne Baker “You Didn’t Say A Word”, Jimmy Radcliffe “Long After Tonight Is Over”, Garnet Mimms “Looking For You”, Dean Parrish “I’m On My Way” and many, many more.
The American Troubadour has had top 20 singles worldwide with American Pie, Vincent, Cryin, And I Love You So, Wonderful Baby, Since I Don’t Have you, It’s Just The Sun and If We Try. Madonna, Drake and Garth Brooks are amongst many artists who have also recorded Don’s songs. He is an inductee of the Grammy Hall Of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and is a recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement award. This year he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1971, Don McLean released American Pie as a double-A single and it charted within a month. Interest from the media and public sent the single to number one in the U.S. and Don to international stardom. Despite decades of attempted interpretations, Don has always remained enigmatic as to the songs meaning and the mystery remains to this day!
Now, 50 years later, American Pie resides in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, joining less than 500 works including Somewhere Over the Rainbow. American Pie was named by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) a top five song of the 20th Century. In 2002, the song was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame. In 2015, McLean’s manuscript of the lyrics to American Pie were auctioned by Christies, selling for just over $1.2 million. McLean has performed the song for numerous dignities including President Clinton at the Lincoln Memorial Gala in Washington D.C.
A New York native, Don McLean is one of the most revered and respected songwriters in American history. After paying his dues in the New York club scene in the late 60s, he went on to score mega-hits like Vincent (Starry, Starry Night), Castles In The Air and many more. His song And I Love You So was the theme for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. American Pie appears in the Avengers’ Black Widow film and the upcoming Tom Hanks movie Finch. Next up for McLean is a children’s book expected to be released in 2022.
With support from Elles Bailey.
Hot on the heels of his most successful solo tour ever, Steve Hackett announces his Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour for 2022. The tour will mark the 50th anniversary of the legendary Genesis album Foxtrot which, in 1972, was pivotal in establishing the band as a major force in British rock.
Guitarist Steve Hackett joined Genesis in 1971, making his band debut on the Nursery Cryme album which enjoyed a greater commercial success in Europe than the UK. After extensive touring, the band were encouraged, by audience reactions, to further experiment with ever longer compositions and develop their ability to incorporate strong narratives. This, in turn, allowed frontman Peter Gabriel more opportunity to indulge in the theatrics which helped to raise the band’s profile.
"I think Foxtrot was a terrific achievement for Genesis at that time," says Steve Hackett. "I think there is not one weak track on the album, they all have their strong points and I’m really looking forward to doing the whole album live."
Foxtrot was critically acclaimed and became the first Genesis album to make the UK album charts. The first track, the sci-fi influenced Watcher of the Skies became a fan favourite and perennial live set opener while Get ‘Em Out By Friday was a cutting slice of social comment about concrete tower blocks replacing aging slums, driven not by concern for communities but by the greed of developers.
Hackett was the lead writer of Can-Utility and the Coastliners, featuring some particularly strong musical ideas, and also contributed his solo piece Horizons. "The original version was a rough mix but there was something about it. A rough monitor mix can have things that something more considered won’t necessarily possess. I liked the sound of the rough mix, so we went with that."
The album’s highlight was the 23-minute epic Supper’s Ready which remains a concert favourite and featured on Hackett’s recent Second’s Out tour. "Supper’s Ready was a sojourn, an odyssey and something that goes down very, very well with audiences now." Hackett adds. "As part of Second’s Out I’ve been playing the whole of that again, it really has stood the test of time."
"We were a young, struggling band at that time. By the time we were doing Foxtrot, the band was becoming more ambitious. Foxtrot is a must for fans of the early Genesis work. Fifty years ago? It doesn’t feel like those ideas are fifty years old because it was genre defining, rather than following trends. It still sounds current, now."
The Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights tour also promises more Genesis favourites and highlights from Hackett’s extensive solo catalogue.
10cc’s upcoming tour has been rescheduled into 2022. The band will be performing the hits which have singled them out as one of the most inventive and influential bands in the history of popular music.
Marking the 45th anniversary of the release of their mega hit I’m Not In Love, which landed the band a top five single in 10 countries and spawned a number one album in the US.
Led by co-founder Graham Gouldman, the art-pop band are heralded in equal measure for their ability to craft ingenious songs that also resonated commercially, with eleven top 10 hits, and over 15 million albums sold in the UK alone. The group also have three number one singles to their name – Rubber Bullets, Dreadlock Holiday and I’m Not In Love.
The line-up features Gouldman (bass, guitar, vocals), Rick Fenn (lead guitar, bass, vocals), Paul Burgess (drums, percussion) – both of whom have been with the band since the early years - Keith Hayman (keyboards, guitars, bass, vocals) and Iain Hornal (vocals, percussion, guitar, keyboards).
In recent years, 10cc have toured worldwide, including Australia, Japan, Iceland, New Zealand, across the UK and Europe. They’ve performed at the 65,000 capacity British Summer Time festival in Hyde Park, and sold out London’s 5,200 seat Royal Albert Hall in advance last year.
It has been an eventful few years for Graham Gouldman. Not only is 10cc enjoying increasing success around the world, but recognition of his solo achievements has grown too.
Being invited by Ringo Starr to join his All Starr Band for tours of Europe in June 2018 and the USA that September, during which the band played three 10cc songs, elevated his profile yet further.
This is the new rescheduled date from Monday 19 April 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.
For over four decades, Blue Oyster Cult has been thrilling fans of intelligent hard rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with classic songs. Indeed, the Long Island, New York based band is revered within the hard rock and heavy metal scene for its pioneering work. Blue Oyster Cult occupies a unique place in rock history because it's one of very few hard rock/heavy metal bands to earn both genuine mainstream critical acclaim as well as commercial success.
The band is often cited as a major influence by other acts such as Metallica, and Blue Oyster Cult was listed in VH1's countdown of the greatest hard rock bands of all time.
Upon the release of Blue Oyster Cult's self‐titled debut album in 1972, the band was praised for its catchy-yet-heavy music and lyrics that could be provocative, terrifying, funny or ambiguous, often all in the same song.
Blue Oyster Cult's canon includes three stone cold classic songs that will waft through the cosmos long after the sun has burned out: The truly haunting (Don't Fear) The Reaper from 1976's Agents of Fortune, the pummeling Godzilla from 1977's Spectres and the hypnotically melodic Burnin' for You from1981's Fire of Unknown Origin.
Other notable Blue Oyster Cult's songs include Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll, Then Came the Last Days of May, I Love the Night, In Thee, Veteran of the Psychic Wars, Dominance and Submission, Astronomy, Black Blade and Shooting Shark.
The intense creative vision of Blue Oyster Cult's original core duo of vocalist/lead guitarist Donald Buck Dharma Roeser, and vocalist/rhythm guitarist Eric Bloom are complemented by Richie Castellano on guitar and keyboards, and the longtime rhythm section of bass guitarist Danny Miranda, and drummer Jules Radino.
"We realized we're a classic rock band. That's what we are, that's what we do best, that's what we know." The band members are proud of Blue Oyster Cult classic sound, and pleased the band is creating vibrant work for disenfranchised music lovers who don't like the homogenized, prefabricated pop or sound alike, formulaic rap metal, which monopolizes the radio airwaves and bestseller charts.
Blue Oyster Cult has always maintained a relentless touring schedule that brings new songs and classics to original fans and, as Bloom puts it, "Teenagers with green hair."
This is the new rescheduled date from Thursday 30 September 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
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The Tremeloes featuring Chesney Hawkes, who can forget Silence Is Golden, Suddenly You Love Me, Even The Band Times Are Good, (Call Me) Number One plus many more!
Herman's Hermits one of the biggest selling bands of the 60s now celebrating their 55th anniversary. Formed in Manchester in 1964, the band has chalked up 23 hit singles, 10 hit albums, appeared in three major movies and have sold in excess of 75 Million records. Hits include, There’s a Kind of Hush, Silhouettes, Can’t You Hear My Heart Beat, Wonderful World, A Must to Avoid and many more
Marmalade were the champions of the Scottish Beat in 1968, adding another dimension to the sound of the classic pop song, with great harmonies. Chart-toppers include, Lovin’ Things, Reflections of My Life, Falling Apart at The Seams, Cousin Norman, and their Lennon and McCartney composed number one smash hit Ob-la-Di Ob-la-Da.
Spencer James of The Searchers with 60s Explosion. Hear all the wonderful hits of The Searchers, Needles and Pins, Don’t Throw Your Love Away, Sweets For My Sweets, and many, many more.
Special Guest from the USA, Gary Puckett and The Union Gap one of the biggest selling artists of the sixties with such hits as Lady Willpower, Woman, Woman and his worldwide number one Young Girl.
Joining the line-up are top musicians Gerry’s Pacemakers who will perform some of Gerry Marsden’s massive hits which include, I Like It, How Do You Do It, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Ferry Across the Mersey and many more!
2022 will see The Proclaimers heading into the recording studio to record their 12th studio album, followed by festival appearances in the summer and a 35 date UK and Ireland tour from October to December.
Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid emerged 35 years ago with their debut album This Is The Story and top three single Letter from America. Since then, their enduring appeal across generations has have over the years seen them enjoy huge success across the globe.
The Proclaimers songs are timeless, capturing a gamut of human emotions, written with poignancy, emotional honesty, political fire, and wit. Their songs feature at weddings, funerals and everything in-between and there is one song, an early celebration of falling head over heels in love that is known the world over and has become a staggering global anthem.
The Proclaimers have carved out a niche for themselves in the netherworld where pop, folk, new wave, and punk collide. In the process, they have enjoyed Gold and Platinum singles and albums in UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
On BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island discs, David Tennant describes his first track by The Proclaimers, "I could have chosen any and every track from this band, probably my favourite band of all time. They write the most spectacular songs, big hearted, uncynical passionate songs."
With support from John Bramwell.
Talismanic songwriter John Bramwell returns to the stage to perform songs from his new album The Light Fantastic and some I Am Kloot classics.
"Great songs, great voice, great playing. Bramwell is the real deal." The Sunday Times
"The UK’s finest export." New Yorker Magazine
Soul II Soul have announced their Feel Free tour.
During the course of their stellar career the band have sold over 10 million albums worldwide and main man Jazzie B was awarded an OBE for services to music in 2008, as well as winning an Ivor Novello Award for Inspiration, as the man who gave British black music a soul of its own.
With huge hits including Keep On Movin (which sold over a million copies in the US alone) and the UK number one single Back To Life (However Do You Want Me), Soul II Soul progressed from being one of the leaders of the 1980s warehouse scene to pioneering British black music around the world, and securing commercial success for themselves and the huge amount of artists they have influenced.
During lockdown in 2020 the 11 members of Bellowhead first reconnected online to remotely record New York Girls - At Home. That led to reuniting in person for a one-off performance which was streamed to mark the anniversary of Hedonism. Thousands of fans watched the concert (one of the biggest online streams of 2020) confirming that Bellowhead are still one of the biggest and most in demand UK folk acts despite not performing for nearly five years.
The stream led to pleas from fans for more and now the stars have aligned and they are to reunite for a mammoth UK tour in November 2022 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their fourth album Broadside!
The band say, "The reaction to the online concert was overwhelming and we really did enjoy playing together again. The 10th anniversary of Broadside presented an opportunity for us to take things one step further and get back out on the road. We couldn’t say no! It’s going to be lots of fun – hope you’ll join us for the party."
Broadside was released in 2012 and produced by John Leckie. It gave the band their first Top 20 in the UK Official Album Charts and features 12 songs including the BBC Radio 2 playlisted singles Roll the Woodpile Down and 10,000 Miles Away.
Support on all dates will come from Sam Sweeney with his band. Sam is a veteran of the mighty Bellowhead and former artistic director of the National Folk Youth Ensemble. He recently released his second solo album Unearth Repeat.
Bellowhead formed in 2004 and after 12 amazing years, they called it a day in 2016. In their active years they played to thousands of people at festivals and on tour, recorded five studio albums (selling over a quarter of a million copies), were the proud recipients of two silver discs and won a staggering eight BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Fans are sure to delight in the news that one of the planet's most exciting, joyous and brilliant live bands are set to reunite for a special one-off tour in Autumn 2022.
Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra have announced the dates of their 2022 autumn/winter UK tour.
Joining Jools Holland will be legendary singer Lulu, who was a huge hit on last year’s autumn/winter tour and Celeste will be showcasing her soul-stirring vocals.
A Jools Holland tour would not be complete without the spectacular vocal power of Ruby Turner, the soul tones of Louise Marshall and the tireless drums of original Squeeze member Gilson Lavis, along with the inimitable musicianship and exuberant sound of the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.
The tour follows the release of Jools Holland’s latest star-studded album, Pianola Piano & Friends, which came out in November 2021 and features musical luminaries David Gilmour, Sir Tom Jones, Jamie Cullum, Joe Bonamassa and many more.
British heavy metal legends Saxon are thrilled to announce a full UK headline tour in November 2022.
Frontman Biff Byford comments, "Can’t wait to get out on a real tour again, it’s gonna be monumental! See you all out there... Seize the day!"
The tour will see the band bringing to life their forthcoming album Carpe Diem across 14 cities throughout the country, with Diamond Head starring as special guest.
Saxon already released two singles from the new record Remember the Fallen here and Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) here.
Produced by Andy Sneap (Judas Priest, Exodus, Accept and Priest guitarist) at Backstage Recording Studios in Derbyshire with Byford and Sneap mixing and mastering, Carpe Diem strikes the ear as one of the most essential British metal statements of the last few years and not lacking in pace or bite, an album which will ignite the joy in stalwart supporters and attract a whole new legion to the Saxon fold.
Despite a career which has spanned 44 years with over 15 million albums sold, including four top 10 UK albums, and having played to hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide, Saxon are revving up for one of their busiest years yet.
Following news of their long-awaited eighth studio album Never Let Me Go, Placebo have announced a major headline UK tour for November and December 2022.
Nine years on from the release of their last outing Loud Like Love, Never Let Me Go takes Placebo to a thrilling new breadth of sound and style. In September, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal resurfaced from a long hibernation to release their first single in five years – and first from the new album - ‘Beautiful James’. The band recently revealed a brand-new track from the album, ‘Surrounded By Spies’.
As great masters in cataloguing the human condition, Placebo’s unique way of examining both its flaws and beauty finds fertile ground in 2021. Crawling out of the pandemic into a landscape of intolerance, division, tech-saturation and imminent eco-catastrophe, theirs is a voice that has rarely felt more significant to contemporary discourse, and more appropriate to sing these stories to the world.
After more than a quarter-century together and an unmistakable back catalogue, Placebo are on fire once again. Never Let Me Go is released on 25th March 2022.
Britain’s oldest boy band, combined age 401 (and three-quarters) – announce a string of dates for 2022/2023.
"We can’t wait to get out and about and sing live for our supper again – we love it," says extravagantly moustachioed founding member and bass man Jon Cleave.
A decade ago, The Fisherman’s Friends were persuaded to sign a million pound record deal that saw their album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends go Gold as they became the first ever traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album.
And thanks to the small film with a big heart that shares their name, the story of the original Cornish buoy band is known around the world – bound by shared experience, for more than 30 years they have gathered on the Platt on the harbour in their native Port Isaac to sing the songs of the sea, songs that in some cases have been handed down for hundreds of years, songs that connect them to generations of Cornish fishermen that have come before them.
The film’s sequel Fisherman’s Friends Two is released this June (2022). The story follows the group from the highs of starring on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, through the lows of struggling to make a follow up album.
James Purefoy, David Hayman, Maggie Steed and Dave Johns are among those returning from the first film, with Imelda May making her acting debut as singer Aubrey Flynn and a guest appearance from broadcaster Chris Evans.
Based on the first film, Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical broke all box office records when it premiered at Hall For Cornwall last year.
The Fisherman’s Friends are lobster fisherman Jeremy Brown, writer/ shopkeeper Jon Cleave, smallholder and engineer John Lefty Lethbridge, builder John McDonnell (a Yorkshireman who visited Port Isaac more than 30 years ago and never left), Padstow fisherman Jason Nicholas, filmmaker Toby Lobb and the new boy, former ambulance driver Pete Hicks.
Billy Ocean has spent more of his life onstage than anywhere else. Next year Billy returns to his natural environment with a string of headline shows throughout the UK, with a set hand-packed with greatest hits and crowd favourites.
Billy Ocean is Britain's biggest black recording star, with worldwide record sales of over thirty million and six top ten singles on both sides of the Atlantic.
He also holds a Grammy award for best male R&B Vocal Performance, the Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement, and in 2020 was awarded an MBE for services to music.
Midge Ure has a career that spans over 40 years – from his “pop band” beginnings, “almost” joining the Sex Pistols, the electronic groundbreaking work with Visage (Fade To Grey is still voted #1 in its genre across Europe), via the mainstream success of Ultravox to the twists and turns of his solo releases.
In 2015, Midge Ure and semi acoustic duo, India Electric Company, successfully presented the “Breathe Again “ show in the UK, and across Denmark, Germany and Italy as a 20th anniversary retrospective. It was the first time that Midge featured an “album in its entirety” and it proved to be a successful format!
Midge enjoyed touring with the boys so much that when he decided to perform the 1980 Tour, Vienna and Visage over 2019 and 2020, they were the natural choice to augment his long time drummer, Russell Field.
Then Covid-19 brought touring to an unceremonious halt!
It’s now time to look to the future, strap on his electric guitar again and play the songs that the audiences are waiting to hear.
This is the new rescheduled date from Wednesday 16 March 2022. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date.
If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh.office@leicester.gov.uk or call 0116 233 3111. Please include your name, postcode and the performance you have booked if you choose to email us.