march 2021
02mar7:00 pmPostponedAvril LavigneO2 Academy Brixton - London
**RE-SCHEDULED SHOW* Avril Lavigne is one of Canada's most popular singer-songwriters. Having sold close to 30 million albums worldwide, Lavigne is paving her own path to rock'n'roll royalty. She burst
more
**RE-SCHEDULED SHOW*
Avril Lavigne is one of Canada’s most popular singer-songwriters.
Having sold close to 30 million albums worldwide, Lavigne is paving her own path to rock’n’roll royalty. She burst onto the music scene in 2002 with the critically acclaimed Let Go, which featured the smash singles Sk8r Boi and Complicated.
Let Go earned Lavigne eight Grammy nominations and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Her 2004 sophomore effort, Under My Skin, debuted at No.1 around the world, as did her much anticipated third album, Best Damn Thing.
Lavigne is also making a name for herself in the acting world, with a recent role in the Richard Linklater-directed Fast Food Nation and voice work in the animated Over the Hedge.
She returns in April 2020 with three UK dates as part of her highly anticipated Head Above Water world tour. It supports her critically acclaimed sixth studio album of the same name.
In the UK, £2 from each ticket will be donated to The Avril Lavigne Foundation. The Avril Lavigne Foundation supports people with Lyme Disease, serious illness or disabilities.
Last updated: October, 2019
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
O2 Academy Brixton, London
SW9 9SL
04mar7:00 pmPostponedAvril LavigneO2 Apollo - Manchester
**RE-SCHEDULED SHOW* Avril Lavigne is one of Canada's most popular singer-songwriters. Having sold close to 30 million albums worldwide, Lavigne is paving her own path to rock'n'roll royalty. She burst
more
**RE-SCHEDULED SHOW*
Avril Lavigne is one of Canada’s most popular singer-songwriters.
Having sold close to 30 million albums worldwide, Lavigne is paving her own path to rock’n’roll royalty. She burst onto the music scene in 2002 with the critically acclaimed Let Go, which featured the smash singles Sk8r Boi and Complicated.
Let Go earned Lavigne eight Grammy nominations and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Her 2004 sophomore effort, Under My Skin, debuted at No.1 around the world, as did her much anticipated third album, Best Damn Thing.
Lavigne is also making a name for herself in the acting world, with a recent role in the Richard Linklater-directed Fast Food Nation and voice work in the animated Over the Hedge.
She returns in April 2020 with three UK dates as part of her highly anticipated Head Above Water world tour. It supports her critically acclaimed sixth studio album of the same name.
In the UK, £2 from each ticket will be donated to The Avril Lavigne Foundation. The Avril Lavigne Foundation supports people with Lyme Disease, serious illness or disabilities.
Last updated: October, 2019
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
O2 Apollo, Manchester
M12 6AP
04mar7:00 pmRescheduledCirca WavesO2 Academy Glasgow - Glasgow
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
O2 Academy, Glasgow
G5 9NT
06mar7:00 pmFrom The JamGloucester Guildhall - Gloucester
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on lead vocal and guitar.
From The Jam have gained a reputation for the kind of incendiary ‘live’ performances that sealed the reputation of The Jam all those years ago. Audiences can expect to hear classic The Jam hits such as Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, Going Underground, Town Called Malice and The Modern World as well as some live favourites and songs from Bruce’s solo career.
(Saturday) 7:00 pm
Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester
GL1 1NS
06mar7:00 pmRescheduledCirca WavesLiverpool Guild of Students - Mountford Hall - Liverpool
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Saturday) 7:00 pm
Liverpool Guild of Students, Mountford Hall, Liverpool
L3 5TR
08mar6:00 pmRescheduledThe WhoM&S Bank Arena - Liverpool
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Monday) 6:00 pm
M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool
L3 4FP
09mar7:00 pmRescheduledCirca WavesO2 Academy Leicester - Leicester
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
O2 Academy Leicester
LE1 7RH
09mar7:00 pmRescheduledClannadBrighton Dome - Brighton
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of
more
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of Sherwood TV series.
The multi-award winning Clannad have without doubt done more than any other group to take Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience. Fusing elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock they have created a beautifully unique and ethereal sound which combines haunting melodies and mesmerising vocals to transcend the sands of time whilst appealing to a worldwide audience of all ages.
Their most recent album Nádúr, (Irish for Nature), was released in September and was their first album of new material since 1998.
Having sold 15 million records worldwide and with eight Top 10 U.K. albums to their name, multi-award winning Clannad have announced In a Lifetime: The Farewell World Tour.
The Billboard Music Award winners’ farewell world will celebrate their exceptional 50-year career and fans can expect the band to perform in cities across the U.K. including Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester along with a very special show at The London Palladium for St. Patricks day before concluding in Brighton. This will be the band’s closing statement in the live arena so expect major activity around this final bow.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
Brighton Dome, Brighton
BN1 1UE
10mar6:30 pmRescheduledThe WhoThe SSE Hydro - Glasgow
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Wednesday) 6:30 pm
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow
G3 8YW
10mar7:00 pmRescheduledCirca WavesO2 Academy Brixton - London
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
O2 Academy Brixton, London
SW9 9SL
11mar6:00 pmPostponedHarry StylesBirmingham Arena - Birmingham
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin,
more
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow.
Styles’ tour will support the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Fine Line, from which he recently unveiled the single Lights Up.
Fine Line is the follow-up to Styles’ 2017 self-titled debut solo album, which hit the No.1 spot on both the UK albums chart and the stateside Billboard 200 upon release. That record also spawned the singles Two Ghosts and Kiwi.
Styles rose to fame as one-fifth of pop megastars One Direction. The band released five studio albums topping charts around the globe. Formed on the UK’s The X Factor, One Direction released iconic pop tracks such as What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things and Drag Me Down.
Last updated: November, 2019
(Thursday) 6:00 pm
Birmingham Arena
B1 2AA
11mar7:00 pmPaul WellerMiddlesbrough Town Hall - Middlesbrough
Paul Weller is one of the UK's premier recording artists. From his tenure as the lead singer of The Jam to the sophisticated pop group The Style Council and finally
more
Paul Weller is one of the UK’s premier recording artists. From his tenure as the lead singer of The Jam to the sophisticated pop group The Style Council and finally as a solo artist, Paul has been producing classic music for over 20 years.
Paul’s biggest hits include Going Underground, Wild Wood, Changing Man and Peacock Suit.
He was on the road last summer playing several shows as part of the Forest Live outdoor gigs and is now in the studio working on new songs.
Paul and his band most recently announced their first UK tour since 2017 with 12 dates lined up in May 2020. This run of dates is just the beginning of more live activity later in 2020, with further shows looking to be added.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
Middlesbrough Town Hall, Middlesbrough
TS1 2QJ
12mar6:00 pmRescheduledThe WhoUtilita Arena - Newcastle Upon Tyne
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Friday) 6:00 pm
Utilita Arena, Newcastle
NE4 7NA
13mar6:30 pmPostponedHarry StylesManchester Arena - Manchester
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin,
more
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow.
Styles’ tour will support the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Fine Line, from which he recently unveiled the single Lights Up.
Fine Line is the follow-up to Styles’ 2017 self-titled debut solo album, which hit the No.1 spot on both the UK albums chart and the stateside Billboard 200 upon release. That record also spawned the singles Two Ghosts and Kiwi.
Styles rose to fame as one-fifth of pop megastars One Direction. The band released five studio albums topping charts around the globe. Formed on the UK’s The X Factor, One Direction released iconic pop tracks such as What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things and Drag Me Down.
Last updated: November, 2019
(Saturday) 6:30 pm
AO Arena
M3 1AR
13mar7:30 pmRescheduledCirca WavesWaterfront - Norwich
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
Waterfront, Norwich
NR1 1QH
14mar7:30 pmRescheduledCirca WavesTramshed - Cardiff
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he
more
What’s It Like Over There?, the brilliant third album by Circa Waves, is the record that nearly never was. Frontman Kieran Shudall was struggling for inspiration when he stumbled upon a notebook filled with scribblings in the band’s lock-up, discovering page after page of lyrical ideas and short story sketches that he’d written in a half-drunk, half-sleep deprived state whilst the band were touring across America on the previous autumn. It gave Shudall the shot in the arm he needed to get his band’s third album underway. The fuse was lit, and the disconnect of time and distance that Shudall felt as he scanned through the notebook, reading his own work whilst feeling like it was written by another person, would become the idea out of which What’s It Like Over There?would grow. It’s a record that fuses the visceral thrill of rock music with a slick pop sound, its themes of modern ennui, emotional fragility and all the inside-outs and upside-downs of relationships making it a record that could only have been made now.
The group – Shudall (vocals, guitar), Joe Falconer (guitar), Sam Rourke (bass) and Colin Jones (drums) – approached their third record with a more ambitious mindset than anything they’d done before. Their 2015 debut Young Chasers introduced them as a quartet armed with a batch of surging indie-rock anthems with its 2017 follow-up Different Creatures revealing a radical retooling of their sound, the songs more muscular, the riffs heavier, the choruses punchier. Playing it safe is not something Circa Waves know how to do; another sonic shift was approaching. “We’ve passed the garage indie-rock “dead happy to be here” vibe,” says Shudall. “The music is deliberately more commercial cos we want to push ourselves in a bigger direction.”
Taking their cues from contemporary trailblazers such as Beck, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Drake as much as classic troubadours like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the band felt inspired to unshackle themselves from the traditional expectations of what a rock’n’roll band should be. “We wanted to start seeing ourselves less in those defined roles – the drummer, the bass player – and blurring the lines a bit more,” says Falconer. Instruments were swapped, pianos were played, the song was king. “I’m really getting into the world of ‘let the song be the greatest song it could be’, and not let the restrictions of ‘we’re a rock band’ rule,” adds Shudall. “We wanted to make it as big and powerful and as cinematic as it could be. Being completely open to using everything at your whim is really exciting.”
Shudall had toyed with the idea of producing the record himself, but realising the scope and expanse of the band’s next move enlisted the help of The Killers, Foals and Smashing Pumpkins collaborator Alan Moulder, who worked with the group so successfully on Different Creatures. “Alan is the only person who can get inside our heads and create the sound that we all want,” says Shudall.
As the UK was brought to a standstill during the cold snap in the early months of 2018, the group hunkered down in Hoxa Studios, north-west London, for four weeks to bring their vision to life. “A lot of the songs were written in America, all LA and sun-kissed, and then recorded in the studio, freezing. Finishing writing those songs in Liverpool, about America, was a unique thing. Having the distance of perspective was a cool angle I’d not done before,” explains Shudall. “It feels like a dream,” says Falconer, “playing music that’s so evocative of a time but you’re so far away from it. Your relationship with the music becomes ethereal.”
What’s It Like Over There? pays a lyrical debt to the band’s time on the road in America, Shudall’s ever-observational eye taking real-life scenarios and morphing them into imaginary tales, the thread of relationships weaving them together. The album’s title connects to Shudall’s discovery of his US diary, a salute to another version of himself but also one that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. “Does it mean, literally, ‘what’s it like over there in America?’?, or mentally, ‘how are you feeling?’” he muses. “Reading the diary back, it’s almost like it’s me but it’s not me,” he says. “The album was almost never written. If I’d not found these scribblings, I don’t know what kind of album it would’ve been. I wouldn’t say I had writer’s block but it wasn’t coming easily to me. I didn’t know what our third album should be about, but when I found the diary, it was unbelievable.”
These are songs that mark out Circa Waves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge in the past decade, tracks with imagination and a spirit of adventure, music that redefines what it is to be a guitar band almost two decades into the new millennium. An intro track recorded on binaural headphones, the literal sound of stepping away from the world outside and shutting yourself away, gives way to the serrated riff groove of Sorry I’m Yours. “It’s a story about a relationship, feeling like you’re not good enough,” says Shudall. “I thought it was an interesting twist on “I love you loads” – it’s more “I know I’m a pain in the arse.” I thought that was romantic in a really honest way.” The track sets the tone for the record’s buccaneering spirit, using drums as a leading instrument rather than a thumping follower.
The gospel-ish piano hook of Times Won’t Change Me was the song that blew everything wide open. “We were already using synths and stuff but after this, we put Passport on piano too. It opened that world a bit more,” says Shudall. “When you’ve got something that’s so blatantly a departure, it felt like we could go anywhere with anything,” adds Falconer.
Pulsating rocker Movies was written backstage at a venue in Tulsa, a heartfelt to homage to Shudall’s wife for keeping his sanity intact, whilst the metallic licks and taut rhythmics of Me, Myself & Hollywood combines the band’s love of hip-hop textures with traditional instrumentation. “We’ve never done swagger,” says Falconer. “We’ve been brash or sentimental, but we’ve allowed ourselves a bit of swagger on that song.”
The Way We Say Goodbye is the album’s lighter-waving moment, a gripping anthem. “There’s a thing with bands being scared of that big epic song, but on your third album, you can afford to be more open. The pop will not hurt you, it’ll set you free!” says Shudall. The breezy, Beatles-y Passport received a piano-led makeover and the menacing stomp of Be Somebody Good is a close relation to Sorry I’m Yours, written in the same week and sharing its themes of self-improvement. The electronica-flecked gallop of Motorcade wasn’t intended as a Circa Waves track, born out of Shudall experimenting with new shades and textures but brought into the fold when the band responded so positively to its demo version. “It gave me that moment where someone says, ‘You’re allowed to do what you want.’” It captures What’s It Like Over There’s inventive approach, whilst the vast rock march of final track Savior is a nod to Led Zeppelin’s intimidating snarl, a song that remoulds the classic-rock standard for the modern age.
Circa Waves’ third album may be the album that nearly never was, but it will become the album their fans can’t live without. It’s another leap forward, another magical reconfiguration of their DNA, a union of emotional depth and intricate songcraft. Circa Waves have taken the theory that they’re allowed to do whatever they want and ran with it. The results are stunning.
(Sunday) 7:30 pm
Tramshed, Cardiff
CF11 6QP
15mar6:00 pmRescheduledThe WhoFirst Direct Arena - Leeds
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Monday) 6:00 pm
First Direct Arena, Leeds
LS2 8BY
15mar7:00 pmRescheduledClannadNew Theatre Oxford - Oxford
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of
more
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of Sherwood TV series.
The multi-award winning Clannad have without doubt done more than any other group to take Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience. Fusing elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock they have created a beautifully unique and ethereal sound which combines haunting melodies and mesmerising vocals to transcend the sands of time whilst appealing to a worldwide audience of all ages.
Their most recent album Nádúr, (Irish for Nature), was released in September and was their first album of new material since 1998.
Having sold 15 million records worldwide and with eight Top 10 U.K. albums to their name, multi-award winning Clannad have announced In a Lifetime: The Farewell World Tour.
The Billboard Music Award winners’ farewell world will celebrate their exceptional 50-year career and fans can expect the band to perform in cities across the U.K. including Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester along with a very special show at The London Palladium for St. Patricks day before concluding in Brighton. This will be the band’s closing statement in the live arena so expect major activity around this final bow.
(Monday) 7:00 pm
New Theatre Oxford
OX1 2AG
16mar6:30 pmPostponedHarry StylesThe SSE Hydro - Glasgow
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin,
more
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow.
Styles’ tour will support the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Fine Line, from which he recently unveiled the single Lights Up.
Fine Line is the follow-up to Styles’ 2017 self-titled debut solo album, which hit the No.1 spot on both the UK albums chart and the stateside Billboard 200 upon release. That record also spawned the singles Two Ghosts and Kiwi.
Styles rose to fame as one-fifth of pop megastars One Direction. The band released five studio albums topping charts around the globe. Formed on the UK’s The X Factor, One Direction released iconic pop tracks such as What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things and Drag Me Down.
Last updated: November, 2019
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm
The SSE Hydro, Glasgow
G3 8YW
17mar6:00 pmRescheduledThe WhoResorts World Arena - Birmingham
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Resorts World Arena, Birmingham
B40 1NT
17mar6:30 pmPostponedHarry StylesFlyDSA Arena - Sheffield
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin,
more
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow.
Styles’ tour will support the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Fine Line, from which he recently unveiled the single Lights Up.
Fine Line is the follow-up to Styles’ 2017 self-titled debut solo album, which hit the No.1 spot on both the UK albums chart and the stateside Billboard 200 upon release. That record also spawned the singles Two Ghosts and Kiwi.
Styles rose to fame as one-fifth of pop megastars One Direction. The band released five studio albums topping charts around the globe. Formed on the UK’s The X Factor, One Direction released iconic pop tracks such as What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things and Drag Me Down.
Last updated: November, 2019
(Wednesday) 6:30 pm
FlyDSA Arena, Sheffield
S9 2DF
17mar7:00 pmRescheduledClannadThe London Palladium - London
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of
more
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of Sherwood TV series.
The multi-award winning Clannad have without doubt done more than any other group to take Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience. Fusing elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock they have created a beautifully unique and ethereal sound which combines haunting melodies and mesmerising vocals to transcend the sands of time whilst appealing to a worldwide audience of all ages.
Their most recent album Nádúr, (Irish for Nature), was released in September and was their first album of new material since 1998.
Having sold 15 million records worldwide and with eight Top 10 U.K. albums to their name, multi-award winning Clannad have announced In a Lifetime: The Farewell World Tour.
The Billboard Music Award winners’ farewell world will celebrate their exceptional 50-year career and fans can expect the band to perform in cities across the U.K. including Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester along with a very special show at The London Palladium for St. Patricks day before concluding in Brighton. This will be the band’s closing statement in the live arena so expect major activity around this final bow.
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm
The London Palladium
W1F 7TF
18mar7:00 pmFrom The JamColchester Arts Centre - Colchester
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on lead vocal and guitar.
From The Jam have gained a reputation for the kind of incendiary ‘live’ performances that sealed the reputation of The Jam all those years ago. Audiences can expect to hear classic The Jam hits such as Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, Going Underground, Town Called Malice and The Modern World as well as some live favourites and songs from Bruce’s solo career.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
CO1 1NF
18mar7:00 pmRescheduledClannadSt David's Hall - Cardiff
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of
more
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of Sherwood TV series.
The multi-award winning Clannad have without doubt done more than any other group to take Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience. Fusing elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock they have created a beautifully unique and ethereal sound which combines haunting melodies and mesmerising vocals to transcend the sands of time whilst appealing to a worldwide audience of all ages.
Their most recent album Nádúr, (Irish for Nature), was released in September and was their first album of new material since 1998.
Having sold 15 million records worldwide and with eight Top 10 U.K. albums to their name, multi-award winning Clannad have announced In a Lifetime: The Farewell World Tour.
The Billboard Music Award winners’ farewell world will celebrate their exceptional 50-year career and fans can expect the band to perform in cities across the U.K. including Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester along with a very special show at The London Palladium for St. Patricks day before concluding in Brighton. This will be the band’s closing statement in the live arena so expect major activity around this final bow.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
St David's Hall, Cardiff
CF10 1AH
19mar7:00 pmRescheduledClannadBath Forum - Bath
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of
more
Clannad the Irish family group responsible for such timeless music as Theme from Harry’s Game, In A Lifetime, I Will Find You and the sound track to the Robin Of Sherwood TV series.
The multi-award winning Clannad have without doubt done more than any other group to take Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience. Fusing elements of traditional Irish music with more contemporary folk, new age, and rock they have created a beautifully unique and ethereal sound which combines haunting melodies and mesmerising vocals to transcend the sands of time whilst appealing to a worldwide audience of all ages.
Their most recent album Nádúr, (Irish for Nature), was released in September and was their first album of new material since 1998.
Having sold 15 million records worldwide and with eight Top 10 U.K. albums to their name, multi-award winning Clannad have announced In a Lifetime: The Farewell World Tour.
The Billboard Music Award winners’ farewell world will celebrate their exceptional 50-year career and fans can expect the band to perform in cities across the U.K. including Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester along with a very special show at The London Palladium for St. Patricks day before concluding in Brighton. This will be the band’s closing statement in the live arena so expect major activity around this final bow.
(Friday) 7:00 pm
Bath Forum, Bath
BA1 1UG
20mar7:00 pmFrom The JamChinnerys - Southend-On-Sea
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on
From the Jam features Bruce Foxton from the original Jam line up. He also spent 15 years playing bass with Stiff Little Fingers. Bruce is joined by Russell Hastings on lead vocal and guitar.
From The Jam have gained a reputation for the kind of incendiary ‘live’ performances that sealed the reputation of The Jam all those years ago. Audiences can expect to hear classic The Jam hits such as Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, Going Underground, Town Called Malice and The Modern World as well as some live favourites and songs from Bruce’s solo career.
(Saturday) 7:00 pm
Chinnerys, Southend-On-Sea
SS1 2EJ
22mar6:30 pmRescheduledThe WhoThe SSE Arena - Wembley
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Monday) 6:30 pm
The SSE Arena, Wembley
HA9 0AA
23mar6:30 pmPostponedHarry StylesThe O2 Arena - London
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin,
more
Harry Styles has announced a series of UK & Ireland arena dates next spring. The run will kick off in Birmingham on 15 April 2020, and take to Sheffield, Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow.
Styles’ tour will support the forthcoming release of his sophomore album, Fine Line, from which he recently unveiled the single Lights Up.
Fine Line is the follow-up to Styles’ 2017 self-titled debut solo album, which hit the No.1 spot on both the UK albums chart and the stateside Billboard 200 upon release. That record also spawned the singles Two Ghosts and Kiwi.
Styles rose to fame as one-fifth of pop megastars One Direction. The band released five studio albums topping charts around the globe. Formed on the UK’s The X Factor, One Direction released iconic pop tracks such as What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things and Drag Me Down.
Last updated: November, 2019
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm
The O2, London
SE10 0DX
23mar7:00 pmRescheduledBlossomsO2 Academy Newcastle - Newcastle Upon Tyne
Since forming in 2013, Blossoms have enjoyed widespread success and acclaim. Their 2016 debut topped the album charts for two consecutive weeks and went on to earn the band BRIT
more
Since forming in 2013, Blossoms have enjoyed widespread success and acclaim. Their 2016 debut topped the album charts for two consecutive weeks and went on to earn the band BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominations, while 2018’s Cool Like You charted at No.4 in the UK albums chart, spawning the anthemic singles I Can’t Stand It, There’s a Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) and How Long Will This Last?
The past couple years have also seen Blossoms play live to sold-out venues and packed festival stages across the UK and Europe. They played their biggest gig to date – a triumphant, hometown show at Stockport County’s Edgeley Park – this past summer.
Blossoms recently revealed details of their new album, Foolish Loving Spaces, set for release on 31 January 2020.
Foolish Loving Spaces was produced in Liverpool and celebrates love in all of its many forms. To support the new album, Blossoms are heading out on an extensive UK tour for March 2020. Special guests on the tour will be The Magic Gang, with FEVER opening on all 7 – 17 March shows, and The Lathums opening on all 18 – 28 March shows.
Last updated: October, 2019
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
O2 Academy, Newcastle
NE1 1SW
24mar6:00 pmRescheduledThe WhoMotorpoint Arena - Nottingham
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE** Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style
more
**RE-SCHEDULED DATE**
Having sold more than 100 million records worldwide, The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history. Emerging in the mid-1960s, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music’s most passionate followings and the band was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
The Who have 17 Top 10 albums – including the 1969 ground-breaking rock opera Tommy. Their anthemic back catalogue of hits includes I Can’t Explain, The Kids Are Alright, My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Pinball Wizard, Who Are You and You Better You Bet.
Last July, The Who brought their Moving On! show to Wembley Stadium where Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were joined by symphonic accompaniment for a huge one-off show.
Now they have confirmed details of a forthcoming UK arena tour to kick off in March 2020 accompanied on stage at all dates by a full orchestra.
The tour will support The Who’s highly anticipated new album WHO which is due for release on 22 November 2019. It will be their first album of new songs in 13 years.
Last updated: September, 2019
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham
NG1 1LA