Rick Astley at Utilita Arena Newcastle
Rick Astley
Utilita Arena Newcastle
Saturday 11th April 2020
Tickets will go on sale 9.30am Friday 27th
September and are available online from http://tidd.ly/143b7bee and https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/rN67Q #Ad
Rick Astley launched his current single ‘Every One Of Us’ in style. The track received its world exclusive first play courtesy
of The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on Radio 2, which he followed with a great
performance on BBC1’s Saturday
evening favourite ‘Pointless’. The
track features on his career-spanning compilation ‘The Best Of Me’,
which will be released on October 25th.
Now Rick Astley announces
details of his ‘Greatest Hits Tour 2020’.
The eleven-date arena tour will see Rick
perform to a combined audience of more than 80,000 people, and includes a
Newcastle show at Utilita Arena.
Rick Astley has proven to be a consistently huge draw in the live arena. He’s
sold over 100,000 tickets to his UK headline shows since releasing his
chart-topping album ‘50’ in 2016. This year has seen him complete a
gargantuan 38-date stadium tour as special guest to Take That in which he played to over 500,000 people. Meanwhile, festivals have included a headline show
at Kew The Music, plus the Isle of Wight, Pub in the Park and Chris
Evans’ Carfest.
His shows are a celebration, mixing the famous hits that he made his
name with alongside current fan favourites.
Rick’s wide-ranging love of music means that his sets are often peppered
with some inspired covers - as vintage as AC/DC’s
‘Highway To Hell’ and as contemporary as Calvin Harris and Rag ‘n’
Bone Man’s ‘Giant’.
It’s a crowd-pleasing cocktail powered by his famous vocal, easy-going
charm and incendiary live band. Previous live reviews have described his show
at “joyous” (Evening Standard) and “clever
and soulful” (Daily Telegraph).
At the age of 21, Rick Astley
emerged from the shadows of the Stock,
Aitken and Waterman production house to become one of the biggest stars on
the planet. His era-defining classic ‘Never
Gonna Give You Up’ topped charts the world over and catapulted him on a
journey that would encompass 8 consecutive UK
Top 10 hits and 40 million sales.
And after stepping aside to focus on his family, he shot back to #1 almost 30 years later with his hit Platinum-selling album ‘50’.
Rick celebrates his extraordinary story with the release of ‘The Best of Me’. It charts that
initial run of hits (‘Whenever You Need
Somebody’, ‘Together Forever’
and many more) alongside recent fan favourites such as ‘Keep Singing’, ‘Angels On
My Side’ and ‘Beautiful Life’.
It also digs into some deep cuts too, such as ‘Lights Out’ from 2010.
The album is bookended with a step into the past and an eye to the
future. Having written and produced the song as well as playing all of the
instruments himself, opening track and lead single ‘Every One of Us’ is a brand new song that shows that the power of Rick Astley 2.0 is undiminished. And it
closes with a new ‘Pianoforte’ take
on ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.
Dropping the peppy ‘80s beats for an intimate piano arrangement captures it in
a new light, its inner heartbreak becoming all the more apparent.
Continuing that spirit of reinvention, Rick independently recorded a set of ‘Reimagined’ interpretations of his songs, old and new, for the
second disc of ‘The Best of Me’.
While Rick’s musical style has
evolved over the years, the ‘Reimagined’
recordings show that quality songwriting has always been an essential hallmark
of his work.
Tickets will go on sale 9.30am Friday 27th
September and are available online from http://tidd.ly/143b7bee and https://ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net/rN67Q #Ad or from 11.00am in
person from the Utilita Arena Box Office.
Please note venue facility and
booking fees will apply.
Tickets
are limited to 6 per person.
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