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*Blossoms: Heading to the Yorkshire coast next summer*

BLOSSOMS will headline TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre on July 10 next summer, supported by Inhaler and Leeds indie band Apollo Junction.

Tickets for the chart-topping Stockport indie group go on sale at 9am on Friday scarboroughopenairtheatre.co.uk and ticketmaster.co.uk

Since forming in Stockport in 2013, Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock have released six Top Five albums.

The latest, Gary, went to number one on release on September 20, taking its name from an 8ft fibre-glass gorilla stolen from a Lanarkshire garden centre in early 2023.

Blossoms’ self-titled 2016 debut hit the chart peak for two weeks en route to earning BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominations. 2018’s follow up, Cool Like You, charted at number four, spawning the anthemic singles I Can’t Stand It, There’s A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) and How Long Will This Last?.

2020’s Foolish Loving Spaces was the band’s second UK number one, a feat matched by April 2022’s Ribbon Around The Bomb, featuring standout tracks Ode To NYC, The Sulking Poet and Care For.

Dublin band Inhaler’s 2021 debut album, It Won’t Always Be Like This, went straight to number one, leading to tours with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Pearl Jam and Arctic Monkeys.

Their 2023 follow-up, Cuts & Bruises, entered the charts at number two. Now the band – U2 frontman Bono’s son Elijah Hewson, Robert Keating, Josh Jenkinson and Ryan McMahon – are teasing new material for 2025.

Apollo Junction are no strangers to Scarborough OAT, having supported fellow Leeds act Kaiser Chiefs at the 8,000-capacity venue in August 2021.

Venue programmer Julian Murray, of promoters Cuffe and Taylor, says: “We are delighted to announce Blossoms as the next headliner unveiled for summer 2025. They are a band we’ve wanted to bring here for some time, so we are thrilled to have been able to make this happen.

“Blossoms have an incredible catalogue of indie anthems that we know will make this one of the most popular shows of the summer. Together with the brilliant Inhaler and Yorkshire’s very own Apollo Junction, this will undoubtedly be one of the gigs of 2025.”

Already booked for 2025 at Scarborough OAT are:June 14, Shed Seven, Jake Bugg and Cast; July 5, The Script and Tom Walker, and July 26, Texas. More acts will be announced.

A record-breaking 114,000 tickets were sold for 2024’s 18 Scarborough OAT shows by the likes of Jess Glynne, Simple Minds, Anne-Marie, Fatboy Slim, Paul Weller, Deacon Blue, Korn, Becky Hill, Tom Jones, Madness, James and comedian Bill Bailey.

Piping hot…but not until 2022 at Harrogate Royal Hall after Red Hot Chilli Pipers rearranged the gig for a second time since the pandemic started to rule diary appointments

BAGROCK pioneers Red Hot Hot Chilli Pipers will pipe up at Harrogate Royal Hall on May 13 2022, more than two years after the Scots were first scheduled to play there.

The pernicious pandemic’s relentless stranglehold has seen the date moved twice, first from April 24 in Lockdown 1.0 this year to April 10 2021 and now to next spring.

Such an impact that the rearranged 14-gig itinerary will form the Chilli Pipers’ 20^th anniversary tour, set for April 28 to June 5 2022. Harrogate Royal Hall will be the only Yorkshire concert, with tickets on sale at harrogatetheatre.co.uk or thegigcartel.com/Artists-profiles/Red-Hot-Chilli-Pipers.htm.

Formed in 2002, the Chilli Pipers popped up for a cameo in The Darkness’s set at the 2004 T in the Park, going on to headline the Scottish festival a decade later.

Now “the most famous bagpipe band on the planet…ever”, they present “bagpipes with attitude, drums with a Scottish accent and a show that should carry its own health warning”.

In the Red Hot Chilli Pipers’ tool kit is a groundbreaking fusion of traditional Scottish music and rock and pop anthems that they proudly call “Bagrock”, engineered by world championship-winning musicians, dancers and singers.

In February 2019, the Chilli Pipers and Glasgow-born singer-songwriter Tom Walker released a piping-hot version of his debut hit Leave A Light On in aid of Nordoff Robins, the music therapy charity. Their fundraising collaboration came after Walker and the Chilli Pipers performed together at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, before a Scotland versus Italy Six Nations rugby match.

The Chilli Pipers last released a studio album in June 2019, when Fresh Air combined new songs and covers, ranging from Walker’s Leave The Light On to Leonard Cohen´s Hallalujah and Walk The Moon’s Shut Up And Dance, both with Chris Judge on vocals.

Among their career highlights have been winning the BBC talent show When Will I Be Famous; playing at the BBC Proms in Hyde Park, NBC Olympics Studio and Rugby World Cup, and recording their 2014 live DVD and CD, Live At The Lake, at Milwaukee Irish Fest, the band’s American spiritual home by the shores of Lake Michigan.

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Blossoms to make Scarborough Open Air Theatre debut on July 10 2025. When do tickets go on sale? Find out here

Red Hot Chilli Pipers to play Harrogate Royal Hall in May 2022, two years late