Glen Campbell

Live In Concert

Glen Campbell returns for his last ever UK tour with his smooth fusion of country music mannerisms and pop melodies that made him one of the most popular country musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, helping him sell 40 million records world wide. He is regarded as the best guitarist of his generation, has been awarded numerous accolades for his celebrated vocals and is an international star – in short, he is a living legend and we advise you to catch him while you can!

Glen is one of the leading figures of country-pop with a steady stream of Top Ten singles, highlighted by classics like “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “I Wanna Live,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” and “Southern Nights.” With his recent critically acclaimed album ‘Meet Glen Campbell’ he opened up his smooth vocals and layered arrangements on contemporary and classic hits by the likes of U2, John Lennon and Green Day to a whole new generation – he crosses the musical borders of country and pop, the generations old and new.

HEAR THE CLASSIC HITS PERFORMED BY THE ORIGINAL HITMAKERS!

DAVE BERRY
The Crying Game · Little Things

CHRIS FARLOWE
Out of Time · Handbags and Gladrags

WAYNE FONTANA
Game of Love · Um Um Um Um Um Um

with special guest
TERRY SYLVESTER (formerly of The Hollies)
Sorry Suzanne · He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother · The Air That I Breathe

all backed by
VANITY FARE

and very special guests
THE MERSEYBEATS
Don’t Turn Around ·  Wishin’ and Hopin’

They say that if you remember the 60s you weren’t there! Fill that gap in your memory with The Solid Silver 60s Show and relive the 60s with original artists singing their greatest hits!

Now in its 26^th year the show features the unforgettable talents of Dave Berry, Chris Farlowe, Wayne Fontana, Terry Sylvester (formerly of The Hollies) all backed by Vanity Fare and The Merseybeats

Songs include The Crying Game, Handbags and Gladrags, Game of Love, Um, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, The Air That I Breathe, Don’t Turn Around and many more.

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This country’s premier Rock & Roll legend Joe Brown comes to us after another remarkable year even by his own high standards. The year 2008 marked Joe’s 50^th year as a professional entertainer and he truly is one of this country’s best loved, enduring, and most acclaimed musicians.  Joe, along with his band is back at this theatre by popular demand in another two-hour musical celebration.

His 50^th Anniversary tours were complete sell outs at every venue.  He also achieved a Gold Record for 100,000 sales of his Very Best Of album which was on the UK charts for 8 weeks staying 4 weeks in the top 20 and in September that year he also sold out The Royal Albert Hall with his 50^th Anniversary Celebration Concert followed by the release in October 2008 of a new album More Of The Truth.

He continued to break box office records in 2009 and 2010 and in 2009 received both MOJO magazine’s coveted Outstanding Contribution To Music Award and an MBE.

You may have seen Joe touring the major arenas with Status Quo in 2010, performing on Later With Jools Holland or at the cinema playing his part closing the show at the Royal Albert Hall at the Concert For George Harrison or have been there to witness him playing his critically acclaimed set at Glastonbury Festival but if not now is your chance to see one of the all time great talents live.

A sensational show you should not miss

Back by popular demand 10cc, one of the most successful groups of the 70’s embark on a nationwide tour in spring 2011.

Join 10cc as they perform hit after hit with over 10 top ten hits including 3 No 1s:

Rubber Bullets ● I’m Not In Love ● Dreadlock Holiday ● Donna ● Art For Art’s Sake ● Good Morning Judge ● The Things We Do For Love ● I’m Mandy Fly Me ● Life Is A Minestrone ● The Dean And I ● The Wall Street Shuffle

10cc are Graham Gouldman, Rick Fenn, Paul Burgess, Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens.

Experience the energy, the excitement, the emotion and the electricity of Motown!

Ivor Novello Award winner Keith Strachan’s directs the hit show Dancing in the Streets – a spectacular celebration of classic music from the heart of the Motor City – Detroit,

Motown was a prominent force in breaking down barriers around the world and equally as important, was responsible for producing some of the world’s most influential and enduring songs of the 20th century.

The Dancing in the Streets company will re-create the energy, style and music of the starts of the Motown stable. Together they will certainly have you dancing in the aisles!

Dancing in the Streets will take you through the Motown repertoire, with classic hits including a selection of the following:

I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Baby Love, My Girl, Dancing in the Streets, Shop Around, I’ll Be There, Signed Sealed Delivered I’m Yours, Where Did Our Love Go, What’s Going On, Please Mr Postman, Reach Out I’ll Be There, Stop In the Name of Love, You’re All I Need to Get By, Up Tight (everything’s alright), You Can’t Hurry Love, Tears of a Clown, Tracks of My Tears

Made famous by artists such as: THE FOUR TOPS, THE TEMPTATIONS, MARVIN GAYE, GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS, LIONEL RITCHIE, THE SUPREMES, SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES, MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS,

“All we need is music … sweet, sweet music”

Take a trip back in time to the glamorous, glitzy nights of Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 60s where, in the company of three of the world’s most popular entertainers, the fabulous Burrelli Sisters and The Rat Pack Big Band, you will experience Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr & Dean Martin performing at the famous Sands hotel.

Hit follows hit, including: Witchcraft, The Lady is a Tramp, Mr Bojangles, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, That’s Amore, Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime, New York, New York, My Kinda Town, Fly Me to the Moon, Sway, Volare, Me And My Shadow, My Way, Memories Are Made Of This and many more. Seasonal classics include: Baby it’s Cold Outside, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland & Auld Lang Syne.

The Sands hotel was the very height of Las Vegas sophistication. It was there in 1960, during the filming of “Ocean’s Eleven”, when for the first time Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford performed together on stage. From then on, they were forever known as the Rat Pack. Las Vegas was their playground and everywhere else was known, in Rat Pack vocabulary, as ‘Dullsville, Ohio’. Frank, Sammy & Dean were a force to be reckoned with, an inexhaustible energy that is as apparent in their music today as it ever was. This spectacular production celebrates the incredible singing talent of three world-famous entertainers and performers and some of the finest music and song that has ever been recorded.

If you wish you’d swung with the hardest partying pack in town, now’s your chance!

Christmas with the Rat Pack is still the coolest party in town!

with

THE MANFREDS

PAUL JONES • MIKE D’ABO • MIKE HUGG

TOM MCGUINNESS •ROB TOWNSEND

MARCUS CLIFFE • SIMON CURRIE

and their special guests

ALAN PRICE & CLIFF BENNETT

Maximum Rhythm N’ Blues is back once again boasting some of the finest quality talent ever assembled on one stage. This all-star line up features The Manfreds with original members Paul Jones, Mike D’Abo, Tom McGuinness and Mike Hugg and their special guests Alan Price and Cliff Bennett.

These artists learned their craft by playing the exciting London club circuit in such famous clubs of the time as ‘The Flamingo’, ‘Klooks Kleeks’, ‘Ricky Ticks’, ‘Eel Pie Island’, and ‘Ronnie Scotts’ and ‘The 101 Club’ creating the birth of British Rhythm N Blues, which rapidly spread across the nation.

After the successful reunion of The Manfreds in 1991, the band injects all of the enthusiasm back into their timeless anthems Do Wah Diddy Diddy, 5-4-3-2-1 and Mighty Quinn. Alan Price brings his own quintessential style to the bill with his classics I Put A Spell On You, Simon Smith And His Amazing Bear and The House That Jack Built. Rebel Rouser Cliff Bennett completes the bill bringing with him hits One Way Live, I’ll Take You Home and Got To Get You into My Life.

An All Star Line Up With The Hits To Match!

Original ‘dreamboats’, Marty Wilde, Eden Kane, and Jet Harris with Roxy Wilde and the Wildcats join forces in a spectacular show that will show they were…

BORN TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL

The late fifties and early sixties were without doubt some of the most exciting and important years in the history of music. With the arrival of, rock n’ roll, a whole new pop culture was born. Performing their own hits and collaborating live on stage, teen idols of their day, Marty, Eden and Jet show us how rock n’ roll with its fusion of sound and rhythm shaped the style of music that we listened to then and still do today.

First when there’s nothing but a slow glowing dream…

After achieving spectacular sell-out success with the 1996 and 1997 and then again in 2000/01 and overseas tours, “What a Feeling” is returning for a major national UK tour for the first time in four years, with an all new, spectacular production celebrating the rock and pop movies and musicals of the seventies, eighties and nineties.

Take a two-hour trip into the mega movies and musicals with an explosion of hi-energy hit songs and hot dance! Relive the best moments from DIRTY DANCING, FOOTLOOSE , and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. Get down to the hits from FAME, GREASE, and FLASHDANCE. And sing your heart out to MAMA MIA, WE WILL ROCK YOU and CARWASH plus many more.

One of the most memorable female recording artists of the 80’s, with a string of catchy hits, SINITTA comes to ‘What a Feeling’ fresh from a sell-out tour of Japan and is also preparing to release a new album in 2006. We have most recently seen her in ITV1’s hit show ‘The X-Factor’, where she is Simon Cowell’s right-hand woman.

Best-known for being part of record-breaking pop band Hear’say, NOEL SULLIVAN is also an accomplished stage performer, having taken lead roles in both FAME and GREASE since leaving the band, and in 2005 Noel created the role of “Will” on the premier national tour of LOVE SHACK

Joining the trio of talented ITV1 stars who have already won the nation’s affection is ZOE BIRKETT who was the last remaining female in the original Pop Idol. Zoe is no stranger to playing to great crowds!

What the papers say: -

“What a Feeling. What a Show”

“Fantastically energetic”

“Guaranteed to get a standing ovation”

“This show is top of the tops”

“Dazzling … brilliant … had people dancing in the aisles”

“Pure Enjoyment”

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS starring musical theatre legend Wayne Sleep, with Robert Meadmore and Melanie Stace brings together a selection of the finest and best loved songs from the most successful West End musicals of all time and celebrates the enchanting melodies of some of our best-loved songwriters in one spectacular show

THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS pay homage to the musical magic in this hit packed show featuring songs made famous by “Billy Elliott”, “Cabaret “, “Chicago”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Grease”, “Joseph”, “Mama Mia”, ”Les Miserables “Lion King”, “Mary Poppins”, “The Phantom of the Opera”, “The Sound of Music ” and many more.

“… lyrical and emotive … powerful and thrilling” The Stage

“… excellent … two hours of song that had the audience demanding an encore” Sunderland Echo

“… a cracking night out” Lancashire Evening Post

“… delivered with a powerful punch … a rapturous reception” Lancashire Evening Post

“A magical musical night out” Evening News & Star