Northeast Music Guide

DON’T CHA! MEGA-GROUP & GLOBAL ICONS THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS ANNOUNCE FIRST U.K. & IRELAND TOUR IN 10 YEARS! UTILITA ARENA NEWCASTLE SUNDAY 12 TH APRIL 2020 Tickets will go on sale 10.00am Sunday 1 st December and are available online: http://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/GB4Em (Hospitality Deals: https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/VevgO ) #Ad The era defying, chart-topping, button-pushing, mega-group are back! The Pussycat Dolls have announced they are reuniting for a U.K. Tour, performing together for the first time in over a decade. The voices of a generation will be taking their Pussycat Dolls 2020 Tour on the road next year returning to Newcastle for one momentous performance at Utilita Arena on Sunday 12 th April 2020. The multi-platinum pop sensations – Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts, Kimberly Wyatt, Jessica Sutta and Carmit Bachar are bringing back Doll Domination. Having sold more than 54 Million records worldwide and streamed ...

THE LOVELY EGGS “I AM MORON” UK TOUR APRIL/MAY 2020 For the last two years THE LOVELY EGGS have sat back and watched England and the rest of the planet slowly eat itself. Their new album “I am Moron” is the result of their observations, a relentless analysis of a modern culture that is bringing the world to its knees.  “This Decision” is the first single to be released on 10th January - an outright attack on greed and mindless consumerism and a fierce defence of a no frills lifestyle they have chosen to pursue. “This Decision” goes further than capturing the zeitgeist of Brexit Britain. It’s about choice and the lack of choice in society. This decision is all mine. Is it?  “I am Moron” is the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2017 album “This is Eggland”. It is their second album co-produced and mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, MGMT, Tame Impala) and continues their journey through Eggland into the unknown.  Throughout their 13 yea...

Ozzy Osbourne with Special Guests Judas Priest Announces Rescheduled “No More Tours 2” 2020 Newcastle Date Utilita Arena Newcastle Friday 23 rd October 2020 Tickets are available online from https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/G5y6L #Ad Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy®-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne has just announced rescheduled shows in the UK and Europe on his “No More Tours 2” tour. The six-week trek kicks originally scheduled for January now kicks off in Ozzy’s native UK on October 23 before wrapping December 7 in Helsinki, Finland.   The tour includes stops throughout the UK and sees the “Prince of Darkness” perform at Utilita Arena Newcastle Friday 23 rd October 2020. Says Ozzy: “I can’t wait to get off my ass and get going again, but you’re just going to have to be a bit more patient. I want to be 100% ready to come out and knock your f*****g socks off. I’m not retiring, I’ve still got gigs to do and also there’s a new al...

The Pitmen Poets Dig Deep For Final Tour Honouring North East Mining Communities The Pitmen Poets are back on the road for the first time in two years, paying tribute to the north east’s coal mining heritage. Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Jez Lowe bring their night of songs and stories to The Customs House on Wednesday November 6 at 7.30pm. The Pitmen Poets Bringing together four giants of the traditional and contemporary folk world, the aim is to celebrate the triumphs, tragedy, humour and hard times of the region’s coal mining communities with north east humour and humanity.   Their music, song and spoken word performances are illustrated by atmospheric archive photography of the Northumberland and Durham coalfields. The Pitman Poets said: “The 2017 tour was a blast and the audiences were fantastic. It was the biggest and most successful Poets tour so far and after taking a year off, we’re hoping to see everyone fit and well and up for some new song...

Only Sun Tynemouth Surf Cafe, North Shields Friday 1 November 2019 Tickets are available from See Tickets: http://tidd.ly/df0652fd #Ad Marking the release of their jubilant new single ‘I Can’t Stand it’ today, Only Sun are pleased to reveal a fittingly emphatic new video to accompany it. Watch It Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZI1LkYvKuE Echoing the music itself, the new video is a whirlwind of vibrant colour peppered with the band’s trademark humour. Filmed at Saracen House Studio in Milton Keynes, what started out as a sincere and artful band shoot, soon descended into pure pandemonium. As Aabid Kanji of Only Sun reflects: “[ For the ‘I Can’t Stand It’ video ] we wanted to focus more on the music and performance side of the song than some of our other (more ridiculous) videos. This concept lasted for about half-an-hour of the shoot day, at which point we discovered the props cupboard in the studio. The video that we’ve ended up with is a perfect ama...

Declan Welsh & The Decadent West Newcastle Think Tank Thursday 31 st October 2019 Tickets are available from See Tickets: http://tidd.ly/ac935f2f #Ad ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’ Debut Album – Out Now On Modern Sky UK As they prepare to hit the road from this Halloween, Declan Welsh & The Decadent West are serving up an early treat to sink your teeth into: an electrifying live rendition of ‘No Fun’, surgically spliced with Lizzo’s ‘Juice’ and The Strokes’ ‘Reptilia’. A mash-up that needs to be heard to be believed, the track is cut from the band’s Maida Vale live session earlier this week when they were invited to play at the legendary London studios by BBC R1’s Jack Saunders. The Glasgow four piece took the opportunity to re-imagine the lead single of their freshly released debut album ‘Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold’ (out now on Modern Sky UK), with distinctively Scottish-flavoured covers of the mega-hits by two of their favourite U...

Celebrating The Golden Anniversary Of Dylan’s Festival Folklore Performance – The Bob Dylan Story Isle Of Wight Festival 50 th Anniversary – Greatest Hits Show The Bob Dylan Story Whitley Bay Playhouse Saturday 9 th November 2019   Tickets: https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/77y95 #Ad The year 2019 marks the golden anniversary of Bob Dylan’s famous comeback performance at the Isle of Wight Festival. Fifty years ago, resplendent in a sharp cream suit, Dylan strode on to the stage before more than 150,000 music fans to deliver a performance that would go down in rock music history.   This special moment in time is celebrated in The Bob Dylan Story’s Isle of Wight 50 th Anniversary Greatest Hits Show, which hits town in the coming weeks.   The authoritative production is described as a “stunning and definitive live concert celebration of rock music’s greatest icon” by the star of the show Bill Lennon. “Music lovers are invited to celebrate the 50 th an...

The Script New Album ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’ To Be Released On November 8 th & Newcastle Show Announced The Script Newcastle Utilita Arena Saturday 14 th March 2020 Tickets are now on sale and are available online from Ticketmaster UK http://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/xDeM3 #Ad After 6 billion streams, 30 million single sales, 10.8 million album sales, over 12 million monthly Spotify listeners and 1.8 million ticket sales, Irish alt-pop trio The Script embark upon a new chapter with the November 8th release of their new album ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’. Having returned with the emotive, stadium-bound first single ‘The Last Time’, ‘Sunsets & Full Moons’   is the sound of The Script - Danny O’Donoghue (vocals, piano, guitar), Mark Sheehan (vocals, guitars) and Glen Power (drums) - focusing on the inclusive, uplifting songwriting that helped them become an arena-filling band with a fervent fan base the world over. In many ways, ‘Sunsets & Fu...

JAWS Newcastle Riverside Saturday 23 rd November 2019 Tickets: http://tidd.ly/70076d3c #Ad New Album “The Ceiling” Out Now Following the release of their long-awaited, and critically acclaimed third album, “The Ceiling”, and a short run of sold-out UK headline dates, Birmingham dream-pop group JAWS are set to hit the road in November for a full UK tour . Their third and most ambitious album yet, “The Ceiling”, sees the band head back into the studio with Gethin Pearson, who also produced 2016′s “Simplicity”. The album represents another musical leap forward for the band, adding new textures and further honing a sound that has been theirs since their inception. “The Ceiling” JAWS will play a full UK headline tour for November 2019 . The announcement follows the bands recent sold-out UK tour dates. Speaking about the reaction to the shows, Schofield says “The recent live dates were the biggest shows we’d ever done and the reaction was beyond what we’d ev...