Latest big tour announcements
Music fans are in for a lively 2009 with a whole host of new dates announced already this week, including Lily Allen, Nickelback, The View, Bob Catley and an extra date for Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Music fans are in for a lively 2009 with a whole host of new dates announced already this week, including Lily Allen, Nickelback, The View, Bob Catley and an extra date for Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are already expanding their farewell tour after overwhelming demand for tickets from fans.
Yesterday two shows at the O2 in London, two shows in Birmingham at the NIA and one show at the Evening News Arena in Manchester sold so quickly that extra dates have been added in these arenas and are on sale now.
The extra date at Birmingham NIA is on Thursday October 1, 2009, and joins the two concerts already announced for October 3 and 4. Tickets cost £60 and £55, plus booking fees.
Lily Allen's appearance at Birmingham Academy on March 23 will follow the release of her next album, It's Not Me, It's You, in February.
The singer, who sold out her recently announced show at London's Koko in less than an hour, last toured the UK two years ago. Tickets, priced £19.50 went on sale this morning. Click here for more details.
Multi-million selling Canadians Nickelback are making a quick return to Birmingham, but this time at the NIA, on Tuesday May 26, in support of the recently released sixth album Dark Horse.
Nickelback have sold 27 million albums worldwide and, since the 2001 breakthrough of How You Remind Me, have sent 13 singles rocketing on to the charts.
They have also sold an astonishing 1.65 million concert tickets following the release of the All The Right Reasons album in 2005, which included the singles Photograph, Savin' Me and Rock Star.
Tickets for the NIA gig cost £33.50 plus booking fee and go on sale at 9am this Friday, December 5.
Bob Catley, singer with Midlands classic rockers Magnum, has announced a solo show in the intimate surroundings of Wolverhampton's Little Civic, accompanied by members of Magnum and others.
The singer, who lives in Staffordshire, will appear at the Little Civic on Saturday, April 4, 2009, with tickets costing £10.
The show is billed as An Evening with Bob Catley and Friends from Magnum plus other Special Guests, and follows the release of his latest solo album Immortal.
Meanwhile, Wolverhampton's Wulfrun Hall is set to play host to youthful Scottish indie-rockers The View on Wednesday February 18, 2009.
Tickets priced £13 will be available from 9am on Friday December 5.
