Taylor made: Harrogate comedian Tom Taylor spins his stories at York Barbican
HARROGATE
comedian and Sitting Room Comedy promoter Tom Taylor hops over to York to
headline the Laugh Out Loud ComedyClub line-up at York Barbican on
December 20.
Taylor
is an award-winning humorist and writer who featured on BBC Radio 4 in the BBC
New Comedy Award with his offbeat musical comedy and droll one-liners.
MIke Newall: smooth-talking Manchester comic
Both a stand-up and character actor, Taylor has penned and performed two
murder mystery solo shows, A
Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game’s A Foot and Try The Fish/ The Man
With The Twisted Hip, as seen at York’s Great Yorkshire Fringe.
Joining him in the Fishergate Bar will be casual, smooth-talking,
story-telling Manchester comedian Mike
Newall, whose Nineties’ Britpop haircut has gained him the nickname “The Real
Magic Mike”.
Debra-Jane Appleby: no-nonsense northerner
Debra-Jane Appleby, former winner of the
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and Funny Women Comedy Award in 2005, completes
the 8pm line-up with her no-nonsense northern take on the world.
Doors open at 7pm, and the host, as
ever, will be Laugh Out Loud promoter Damion Larkin.
Tickets are on sale on 0203 356 5441, at yorkbarbican.co.uk or in person from the Barbican box office.
York, So Good They Named It Once, by Harland Miller, oil on canvas, 2009, copyright Harland Miller, Photo copyright: White Cube (Stephen White)
YORK artist and writer Harland Miller’s largest ever solo exhibition
will be held in his home city next year.
Harland Miller: York, So Good They Named It Once will run at York Art
Gallery from February 14 to May 31 2020.
Supported by fellow North Yorkshireman Jay Jopling’s White Cube
galleries in London, the show features Miller’s best-known series, the Penguin Book Covers
and the Pelican Bad Weather Paintings.
These works directly refer to the 55-year-old artist’s relationship with
York, the city where he was born and grew up before moving to London, as well
as making wider references to the culture and geography of Yorkshire as a
whole.
Death, What’s in it For Me?, by Harland Miller, oil on canvas, 2007, copyright Harland Miller, Photo copyright: White Cube (Stephen White)
The titles are all sardonic statements on life: York, So Good They Named It; Once Whitby – The Self Catering Years; Rags to Polyester – My Story and Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore.
In
addition to these dust-jacket paintings, Miller will show works from his recent
Letter Painting series: canvasses made up of overlaid letters to form short
words or acronyms in a format inspired by the illuminated letters of medieval
manuscripts.
Miller left Yorkshire to study at Chelsea School of Art, graduating in
1988 with an MA, since when he has lived in London, New York, Berlin and New
Orleans.
He has held solo exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead, in 2009 and Palacio Quintanar, Segovia, Spain, in 2015. Group
exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1996; Kunsthalle
Mannheim, Germany, 2004; Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2005,
2006 and 2007; Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge, 2013, and Somerset
House, London, 2016.
In 2008, Miller curated the group show You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The
Soil, an homage to Edgar Allan Poe to mark the bicentenary of his birth, at
White Cube and Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
Ace, by Harland Miller, oil on canvas, 2017, copyright Harland Miller, Photo copyright: White Cube (George Darrell)
His first novel, Slow Down Arthur, Stick To Thirty, the story of a child who travels around northern England with
a David Bowie impersonator, was published
by Fourth Estate in 2000.
That same year, Book Works published his novella,
At First I Was Afraid, a study of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,
based on the true story of a female relative, whose box of Polaroid images, all
of oven knobs turned to “Off”, was discovered by Miller.
In his artwork, he continues to create work in the vein of his Penguin covers, wherein he married aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting with his writer’s love of text. He now includes his own phrases, some humorous and absurd, others marked by a lush melancholia.
Adam Martyn: partially sighted actor who will play 18th century blind scientist Nicholas Saunderson in No Horizon next year
NO Horizon, a new musical
that tells the forgotten story of a Yorkshire maths genius, will tour to York
Theatre Royal next April after more than a decade in the making.
Andy
Platt’s show is inspired by the life of Nicholas Saunderson, a blind scientist
and mathematician from the West Riding village of Thurlstone, near Penistone, who
overcame impossible odds to become a Cambridge professor and friend of royalty.
Often described as an 18th
century Stephen
Hawking, Saunderson was born in 1862 and by the age of one he was blinded by
smallpox. In an era before
Braille, it is said he taught himself to read by running his fingers over the
gravestones in a local churchyard.
He learned Latin and Greek and became Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at Cambridge, a post also held by Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage
and the aforementioned Stephen Hawking.
In his
day, Saunderson spent time with kings and queens and had a reputation that
spread across Europe. Remarkably,
his field of expertise was not in mathematical equations, but in lecturing
about optics.
It is thought that Saunderson, who was elected a member of
the Royal Society, may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes’ theorem, a
mathematical formula for determining conditional probability.
A past performance of No Horizon, set to be revived on a northern tour in 2020
Described by singer and
BBC Radio Two presenter Elaine Paige as “one to watch out for”, Platt’s musical
will run in York on April 9 and 11 – no performance on Good Friday – as part of
its 2020 northern tour mounted by Right Hand Theatre, in the wake of an Edinburgh
Fringe run in 2016.
The show was first
written in 2003 by Platt, a former headmaster who rediscovered Saunderson’s
remarkable journey after it was forgotten by history.
“Saunderson’s achievement as the Stephen Hawking of his day
was phenomenal,” says the writer and producer. “I wanted No Horizon to
entertain and move the audience at the same time as restoring Saunderson to his
rightful place as a national icon. Next year’s tour is the culmination of a
15-year dream.”
The lead role of Saunderson will be played by the partially sighted Adam Martyn, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who trained at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.
He will be on the road in the 2020 tour from March 19, when No Horizon opens at
The Civic, Barnsley, the nearest major theatre near to Saunderson’s birthplace.
The poster for next spring’s tour of No Horizon by Right Hand Theatre
After further shows there
on March 20 and 21, the tour will head on to the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax,
March 26 to 28; Leeds City
Varieties, March 31 and April 1; Cast, Doncaster, April 2 to 4; Harrogate
Theatre, April 7 and 8; York Theatre Royal, April 9 and 11, and Millgate Arts
Centre, Delph, Saddleworth, April 15.
Helen Reid, producer at Right Hand
Theatre, says: “I’m so excited we’ve managed to pull off and organise a northern
tour. It’s only taken over a decade to do it!
“We couldn’t have done it without the
support of our fan base at the Edinburgh Fringe and locally, to help bring the
show to a wider audience.
“We
look forward to seeing our old fans and new fans alike at any of the northern
venues. The support we’ve had so far from the public and celebrities has been
immensely rewarding for Andy and the producers. We thank them all.”
The 2020 tour is funded by Arts Council England and Foyle
Foundation, co-commissioned by Cast, Doncaster, and The Civic, Barnsley, and
supported by Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind.
York tickets are on sale on 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk; Leeds, 0113 243 0808 or cityvarieties.co.uk; Harrogate, 01423 502116 or at harrogatetheatre.co.uk.
Jamaican joy: London jazz singer Cleveland Watkiss celebrates his Caribbean roots at the NCEM, York
HACKNEY jazz singer Cleveland Watkiss
brings the winter sunshine to the National Centre for Early Music in York on
Thursday when presenting his Great Jamaican Songbook concert.
Marking his 60th year with a
joyous show, Watkiss revives some of the greatest songs written by Jamaican
legends Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and Delroy Wilson et al as he presents a
personal project exploring music that connects him to his Jamaican roots.
Watkiss will be delving into Jamaica’s
long history of pioneering musical sounds, from Mento and Ska to Reggae, Dub
and Roots, as well as highlighting record labels and producers such as Studio
One, Coxsone Dodd, TuffGong, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, and King Tubby.
His 7.30pm set list takes in the work
of Don Drummond; Ernest Ranglin; the Barrett Brothers; Jackie Mittoo; Leroy ‘Horsemouth’
Wallace; Alton Ellis; Ken Booth; The Wailers; Millie Small; Marcia Griffith; Dawn
Penn; Dennis Brown; Gregory Isaacs; Burnin’ Spear and Johnny Osbourne, many of
whom graduated from The Alpha Boys School under the tutelage of Sister
Mary Ignatius Davis, alias “The Nun”.
Thursday night’s musical guests are drawn
from Watkiss’s collaborators old and new: Orphy Robinson, on keyboards and
percussion; Ray Carless, saxophones; Byron Wallen, trumpet; Delroy Murray,
bass; Brandon Murray, guitars; Dan Barnett, drums, and Phil Ramocon, keyboards.
Tickets cost £18, concessions £16, on 01904 658338 or at tickets.ncem.co.uk.
Guitarist Robbie McIntosh, right, leads a workshop during the Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend at Pocklington Arts Centre earlier this month
POCKLINGTON Arts Centre is celebrating its “biggest and best”
Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend yet.
Hosted by guitarist Robbie McIntosh and blues slide
guitarist Michael Messer from November 15 to 17, this annual event drew a full
house of students from across Britain and raised £20,000 for the Pocklington
economy.
The students spent the weekend being tutored by McIntosh,
who has toured with Paul McCartney, Norah Jones, and The Pretenders, and fellow
regular host Messer.
The three-day event featured guitar and slide guitar
tuition, jam sessions, student performances and the Acoustic Blues House Party,
when Pocklington Arts Centre opened its doors to the public for a one-off
concert starring Messer and McIntosh.
The opening day was featured in an afternoon live broadcast
on BBC Radio Humberside with presenter Phil White and his crew.
“This year’s Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend was a
resounding success; in fact it was the most successful one eve,” says Messer. “I’ve
been involved with running this event at Pocklington Arts Centre for 16 years
and I couldn’t hope for a better venue.
“The PAC staff are so helpful, supportive and welcoming that
everyone, participants and tutors, want for nothing.
Guitarists Robbie McIntosh, left, and Michael Messer at this month’s Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend at Pocklington Arts Centre
“In addition, the various hotels and restaurants around town
all welcomed us and provided us with fantastic service.
“All I can say is, ‘thank
you Pocklington and we very much look forward to next year’s Acoustic Blues and
Roots Weekend’.”
Data collated from surveys conducted by the arts centre have
shown that students attending the weekend spent around £20,000, including
accommodation and visits to pubs, restaurants, cafes and shops.
Arts centre director Janet Farmer says: “We said last year that our Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend just keeps going from strength to strength, but this year has just blown us away.
“Hosting the event not only fills our auditorium, studio and bar with the incredible sounds of acoustic blues and roots music, but also the average expenditure from every single student also makes for a resoundingly positive experience for everyone involved, including local businesses. We very much look forward to welcoming everyone back again next year.”
The 2020 Acoustic Blues and Roots Weekend will take place from November 13 to 15. Watch this space for confirmation of when tickets will go on sale.
Ebor Players cast members for Mother Goose gather at Bishopthorpe Village Hall
THE Ebor Players mark the
25th anniversary of their first pantomime by staging Mother Goose
from December 2 to 7 at Bishopthorpe Village Hall, near York.
David Rose will play the
title role after “taking a huge break with tradition” last year when, for the
first time in more than 20 years, he switched to the dark side as the villainous
Abanazar in Aladdin.
“Although I thoroughly
enjoyed the change, this year I’m back in frocks for my traditional role as dame,”
he says.
The Ebor Players were formed in 1994 in Bishopthorpe. “The aim was to present a pantomime in the village,” recalls David. “Now, 25 years later, the Players just go from strength to strength.
“Our pantomimes today bear
little resemblance to those early years. The group has evolved to present a
much slicker, more professional-looking show. This year’s show, Mother Goose,
has a cast and crew of more than 40 people and is a riot of colour, music and
laughter, with something for everyone.”
Performances will start at
7.30pm each evening. “Our Saturday night adults-only shows have always been so
popular and oversubscribed, so this year we’ve introduced a Wednesday evening
adults-only – 16 plus – cabaret-style event, but at the same price as our
regular shows” says David. “So you can come along, have a drink and let your
hair down for the evening.”
Tickets cost £8 for adults, £6 for children, at ticketsource.co.uk\ebor-players, on 07591 297221 or via the Ebor Players’ Facebook page.
Olisa Odele: cast as McKay in Pilot Theatre’s Crongton Knights
YORK company Pilot Theatre have assembled
the cast for next year’s world premiere of Crongton Knights.
Adapted for the stage by Emteaz
Hussain from Alex Wheatle’s award-winning novel, Corey Campbell and Esther Richardson’s
co-production will be launched at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, from February
8 to 22 before playing York Theatre Royal from February 25 to 29.
In Crongton Knights, life isn’t easy on
the Crongton Estate. McKay and his mates favour keeping their heads down, but
when a friend finds herself in trouble, they set out on a mission that goes
further than any of them imagined.
Katie Donnachie: playing Bushkid in Crongton Knights
Pilot Theatre’s show will take you on a
night of madcap adventure as McKay and his friends, The Magnificent Six, encounter
the dangers and triumphs of a quest gone awry.
The pulse of the city will be alive on
stage, propelled by a soundscape of beatboxing and vocals laid down by the cast
and created by musician Conrad Murray.
Rehearsals will begin in Coventry on January 6 2020. Leading the cast will be Olisa Odele as McKay, having played Ola in Chewing Gum on E4 and PC Merrick in BBC1’s Scarborough, while Kate Donnachie will take the role of Bushkid; Simi Egbejumi-David, Festus; Aimee Powell, Venetia; Khai Shaw, Jonah; Marcel White, Nesta, and Nigar Yeva, Saira.
Khai Shaw: taking the role of Jonah in Crongton Knights
The production team is led by Corey
Campbell, artistic director of Strictly Arts Theatre Company and co-artistic
director of the Belgrade Theatre for 2021, and Esther Richardson, Pilot’s
artistic director. The designer is Simon Kenny; lighting is by Richard G Jones,
who lit The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum, York.
Crongton Knights will be the
second of four co-productions between Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre,
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and York Theatre Royal, who last year formed a partnership
to develop theatre for younger audiences in tandem with the Mercury Theatre,
Colchester.
Heather Agyepong as Sephy in Pilot Theatre’s Noughts & Crosses at York Theatre Royal in April 2019. Picture: Robert Day
From 2019 to 2022, the
consortium will commission and co-produce an original mid-scale touring production
each year. Each show will play in all the consortium venues, as well as touring
nationally.
The consortium’s first
production, Noughts & Crosses, was seen by more than 30,000
people on tour this year, with 40 per cent of the audience being aged under 20.
After the Coventry and York runs, Crongton Knights will be on tour until May 9, with further Yorkshire performances at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, from March 31 to April 4. York tickets are on sale on 01904 623568, at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or in person from the Theatre Royal box office.
Bah Humbug! Mark Hird as Scrooge in Pick Me Up Theatre’s Scrooge The Musical. Picture: David Harrison
WHO is your favourite Scrooge? Albert Finney? Tim Curry?
Patrick Stewart? George C Scott? Lionel Barrymore on the radio?
Maybe Michael Caine in The Muppets’ Christmas Carol? Jim Carrey?
Or how about Jim Backus as the voice of Mister Magoo in Mister Magoo’s Christmas
Carol, or even Bill Murray’s Frank Cross in Scrooged?
Mark Hird, who plays Scrooge from tomorrow (November 26) in Pick
Me Up Theatre’s Scrooge The Musical at the Grand Opera House, York, has no
hesitation in picking Alastair Sim from Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1951 film,
Scrooge.
“I loved his performance! He was unashamedly nasty, but
there was something in his eyes, that glint, that made you think there’s
something going on there,” says Mark, who is leading Robert Readman’s cast,
fresh from directing this autumn’s Pick Me Up musical, Monster Makers,
at 41 Monkgate.
He now adds Charles Dickens’s
Ebenezer Scrooge to a diverse Pick Me Up CV that includes Captain Mainwaring inDad’s Army, Colonel Pickering inMy Fair Lady and Uncle Fester in
The Addams Family, and he is particularly enjoying performing the songs in Leslie
Bricusse’s musical.
“Maybe we need another Dickens for this age,,” says Mark Hird, who sees the abiding resonance in A Christmas Carol
“The songs really help
in bringing out Scrooge’s thoughts, whether in the 1970 film musical with
Albert Finney or the stage version with six extra songs. You discover new
things every time you do it.” says Mark.
“I’ve had the chance
to play some really cold, nasty characters: there’s nothing redeemable about Inspector
Wormold in Betty Blue Eyes or The Beadle in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of
Fleet Street, but, on the other side, I also get to play all the ridiculously
loveable characters, like Captain Mainwaring, Uncle Fester and Colonel
Pickering.
“So, in many ways,
Scrooge is more interesting because he goes on a journey from one to the other,
and it’s really fun as an actor to make that transition, but also not to make
him black and white. There are reasons in his past for some of the things he’s
doing.”
Time for a quick
refresher course: based on Dickens’s Victorian cautionary tale A Christmas
Carol, Scrooge tells the tale of old miser Ebenezer Scrooge on the night he is
visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet To Come. Here that tale
is told in an “all-singing, all-dancing, all-flying” show.
“I haven’t flown on stage before, but I’m not scared of heights,” says Mark Hird
All-flying, Mark? “Yes, we have some flying in this show.
Scrooge has to fly with Rory Mulvihill’s Ghost of Christmas Present, and Tony
Froud’s Jacob Marley will float above the stage to sing his big number,” says
the Scotsman.
“I haven’t flown on
stage before, but I’m not scared of heights. I love walking the hills in Scotland.”
Joining Mark in the
company will be Alan Park’s Bob Cratchit. “The advantage we have doing the show
at the Grand Opera House, rather than our other home at 41 Micklegate, is that you
can put on a big spectacle, but you can also have intimate scenes too, such as Cratchit
and Tiny Tim’s scenes,” says Alan.
“But the experience
of performing at 41 Micklegate develops that intimate form of acting, which you
can then take into the bigger theatre,” says Mark.
He and Park see the contemporary resonance in Dickens’s story. “It’s amazing to look back at the impact Dickens’s book had on politicians, as well as general readers, concerning the inequality of working conditions for the working classes, and the cruelty Cratchit faces. That strikes a chord today,” says Mark.
” it’s really fun as an actor to make Scrooge’s transition, but also not to make him black and white,” says Mark Hird
“Cratchit thinks ‘this
is my lot; I will make the most of what I have’, and he sees Scrooge as alien
to his world, because that’s how society is,” says Alan.
“No politician will
change Scrooge, but the three Ghosts do have an impact, which makes him change
himself.
“But what’s more
depressing is that if A Christmas Carol were to be played out in modern times,
I’m not sure there would be sympathy for the Bob Cratchits of this world.”
“Maybe we need
another Dickens for this age,” says Mark. “If the Ghost of Christmas Yet To
Come brought Dickens to 2019, I think he would be horrified.”
“You could argue that
we need the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come to visit some of our politicians
right now,” says Alan, as the winter-of-discontent General Election fast approaches.
Pick Me Up Theatre’s Scrooge The Musical runs from Tuesday, November 26 to Sunday, December 1 at Grand Opera House, York. Performances: 7.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday; 2.30pm, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Box office: 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york.
Milton on a mission elsewhere: Jones adds loads more gigs for next autumn, but not here in Yorkshire. Picture: Aemen Sukkar
MILTON Jones is adding a heap of extra dates next autumn for
his 2020 tour show, Milton: Impossible, but not one of the 34 additions is in
Yorkshire.
Panic not, the shock-haired matador of the piercing one-liner
is booked in already for York Barbican on February 22, Victoria Theatre,
Halifax, February 23, Hull City Hall, March 18 and Leeds Town Hall, March 19,
on his initial January to April travels.
One man. One Mission. Is it possible? “No, not really,” says the Kew comedian, who will be performing 100 shows in total as he reveals the truth behind having once been an international spy, but then being given a somewhat disappointing new identity that forced him to appear on Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy and Dave’s One Night Stand.
“This is a love
story with a twist, or at least a really bad sprain,” says Jones. “Is it all
just gloriously daft nonsense, or is there a deeper meaning? Every man has his
price. Sainsbury’s, where good food costs less.”
This adds to an earlier statement by the devotee of particularly bold
Hawaiian shirt designs when he first announced his 2020 mission. “My latest show is called Milton: Impossible and is loosely based on a
Tom Cruise film I saw once called something like Undo-able Task,” he said.
” This is a love story with a twist, or at least a really bad sprain,,” says comedian Milton Jones of his 2020 show, Milton: Impossible
“In it, I
play a Milton who appears to just have a job in Asda, but at night he’s also an
international spy involved in secret things and quite bad situations. But if
daft jokes give you an allergic reaction and send you into a coma, then don’t
come running to me.
“Also, at a
difficult time for our country, I believe there’s a chance this show could
unite the nation. Admittedly quite a small chance.”
Tickets for
York Barbican are on sale at yorkbarbican.co.uk and on 0203 356 5441; Halifax,
victoriatheatre.co.uk; Hull, hulltheatres.co.uk; Leeds, leedstownhall.co.uk.
Those wishing
to travel farther afield on their Milton mission next autumn can find out more
at miltonjones.com, with tickets going on sale from Thursday, November 28.
Jones, 55, has played York many times, both at the Grand Opera House and latterly at the Barbican, where he presented his Milton Jones Is Out There show on September 30 2017.
Snow Patrol: sunshine awaits in Scarborough next summer
SNOW Patrol and Little Mix are the new additions to Scarborough Open Air
Theatre’s ever-expanding summer season for 2020.
Gary Lightbody’s Northern Irish indie rock band will play on July 4;
“the world’s biggest girl band” are booked in for July 21, boosting a line-up
already featuring Mixtape (Marc Almond, Heaven 17 and Living In A Box) on July
10 and McFly on August 14.
Tickets will go on sale for Snow Patrol on Friday (November 29) at 9am,
preceded by Little Mix on Thursday at 9am, at scarboroughopenairtheatre.com.
This month, Snow Patrol have marked their 25th anniversary by
releasing Reworked, 13 reimagined versions of their back-catalogue peaks,
complemented by three new recordings, Time Won’t Go Slowly, Think Of Home and Made Of Something Different Now.
Next summer’s show is sure to feature the likes
of Run, You’re All I Have, Signal Fire, Called Out In The
Dark and Take Back the City and Chasing Cars, officially British
radio’s most played song of the 21st century. Expect to hear songs too from
2018’s Wildness, their first studio album after a seven-year hiatus.
Peter Taylor, director of Scarborough Open Air Theatre concert promoters
Cuffe and Taylor, says: “Snow Patrol are not only one of the biggest-selling UK
bands of the last 20 years, but they are also one of the most critically
acclaimed live acts. We are delighted to be bringing them to Scarborough for
summer 2020.
“They are behind some of the best-loved indie rock anthems and these
special songs are going to sound amazing at this unique venue. I have
absolutely no doubts this is going to be an incredible night.”
In the Mix: Little Mix confirmed for Scarborough Open Air Theatre return
Little Mix will head to Scarborough on July 21 as part of a 21-date Summer
2020 tour that will take in Hull College Craven Park Stadium, Hull, on July 12.
They played
Scarborough OAT previously in July 2017 and this time will perform such hits as
Woman Like
Me, Touch, Shout Out To My Ex, Black Magic and Wings.
“Performing live is our favourite thing
to do as a band, we love it,” say The X Factor alumni Jade Thirlwall, Perrie
Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson. “Our last summer tour was one of
our favourites ever, so we can’t wait for some more brilliant outdoor shows
next year. We want everyone to come party with us in the sunshine.”
Record sales of 50
million have seen Little Mix notch up four number one singles, four
platinum-selling albums and nine platinum-selling singles in Britain,
surpassing a record previously held by the Spice Girls.
Their 2016 album Glory
Days was the biggest seller by a female group this century in the UK,
alongside being named the longest-reigning Top 40 album for a girl group
ever.
This year, Little Mix have toured
Europe, Australia, Japan and the United States and taken their LM5 Arena Tour
to Britain, Ireland and Europe.
Tickets for both Snow Patrol and Little Mix also will be on sale in person from the Scarborough Open Air Theatre, in Burniston Road, and the Discover Yorkshire Coast Tourism Bureau, Scarborough Town Hall, St Nicholas Street, and on 01723 818111 and 01723 383636. For Little Mix at Scarborough and Hull, visit livenation.co.uk.
