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Matt Goss to play York Barbican on April 25 on Hits And More Tour. Sheffield, Hull and Leeds await. When do tickets go on sale?

Matt Goss: The Hits And More at Sheffield Oval, York Barbican, Hull Connexin Live and Leeds Grand Theatre in Spring 2025. Picture: Paul Harris

THE “New King of Las Vegas”, Matt Goss will play four Yorkshire venues on his 2025 tour, The Hits And More, including York Barbican on April 25.

The 21-date itinerary also will take in Sheffield Oval on March 14, Hull Connexin Live on April 24 and the tour’s closing night at Leeds Grand Theatre on April 28.

Pre-sale tickets will be available via on Wednesday (11/12/2024) at ticketmaster.co.uk; general sale from Friday at mattgossofficial.co.uk.

The Hits & More will be a “celebration of all Matt has achieved in his music career and beyond”, from pop pin-up days in Bros to Las Vegas, not forgetting the 2022 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Initially he headed to Palms Casino for one year only, but the South Londoner has been performing in the United States for more than 11 years now after his show became an instant success.

He moved to Caesars Palace for the remainder of his Vegas residency and has since played such iconic New York venues as Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden. He even hailed August 8 as “official Matt Goss Day” in Las Vegas.

“Trust me, what I’ve learnt over the years, being on countless stages around the world, this will be your best night of the year!” says Matt Goss. Picture: Paul Harris

Next spring’s tour will mark Goss’s return to the UK concert stage after his hit tour in 2023, when the Matt Goss Experience, with the MG Big Band and Royal Philharmonic, played York Barbican on April 23.

“Trust me, what I’ve learnt over the years, being on countless stages around the world, this will be your best night of the year!” says Goss, who promises sensational songs and an electric atmosphere.

In his Bros days, frontman Matt and drummer brother Luke  played to 77,000 fans as the youngest ever band to headline Wembley Stadium in August 1989, with support from Salt’n’Pepa and Debbie Gibson on the Bros In 2 Summer bill.

Bros also played 19 shows at Wembley Arena between 1987 and 1992, later re-uniting for two concerts at the O2 Arena, London, in 2017, when the 40,000 tickets sold out in seven seconds, the fastest ever sell-out for any Live Nation show there. 

Best known for their November 1987 number two When Will I Be Famous?, Bros split up in 1992 after releasing their third and final album, Changing Faces. 

In 2018, the BAFTA-winning documentary film about Matt and Luke’s lives together and apart, After The Screaming Stops, became that year’s most downloaded BBC production.

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Tickets for Coldplay’s first ever Hull gigs next August go on sale to HU, YO, DN and LN postcode holders today at 6pm

Coldplay performing on their Music Of The Spheres World Tour. Picture: Anna Lee

FIFTY per cent of the tickets for Coldplay’s first ever concerts in Hull – at Craven Park Stadium on August 18 and 19 2025 – will go on sale to fans with HU, YO, DN and LN postcodes via Ticketmaster this evening from 6pm.

The general sale for Coldplay’s Hull shows and six nights at Wembley Stadium, London, on September 22, 23, 26, 27, 30 and 31 next year will open at 9am tomorrow morning at ticketmaster.co.uk/coldplay-tickets/artist/806431. These will be their only British/European dates in their Music Of The Spheres World Tour diary for 2025.

Last Sunday evening, Coldplay placed a poster in the window of the Dublin Castle, in Camden, London – the venue for their debut gig on February 22 1998 under the name The Coldplay, tickets £4 with flyer – to reveal that ten per cent of their proceeds from the Wembley and Hull concerts will be donated to Music Venue Trust.

This will help to fund the trust’s support of UK Grassroots Music Venues and upcoming artists. Donations also will be made to the Music Venue Trust by the concerts’ promoters (SJM Concerts, Metropolis Music and Live Nation), the band’s booking agent (WME), the two venues and the official ticket agents (Ticketmaster, See Tickets and AXS). 
 
Mark Davyd, the Music Venue Trust’s chief executive, said: “Coldplay are the perfect example of a UK band who came through the grassroots circuit on their way to worldwide stadium-filling success.

“It’s fantastic to see them celebrating their own pathway to Wembley by giving back to the grassroots music venues that supported them and recognising the artists and promoters that are struggling more than ever to build their own careers.

“Through our partnership with Save Our Scene – who introduced us to Coldplay last year – this money will go directly into work that ensures communities right across the country will continue to have access to great live music on their doorstep.

“The band’s support really will stop venues closing, make tours happen and bring the joy of live music to thousands of people. After months of discussing Coldplay’s potential support around these UK shows with them, we’re so happy and grateful that the news is finally out there.”
 

Coldplay have sold ten million tickets for their Music Of The Spheres World Tour since March 2022. Picture: Anna Lee

In a world first for a stadium show, Coldplay have pledged to power production for the Wembley concerts with 100 per cent solar, wind and kinetic energy, collected at the venue and elsewhere in the UK, and delivered by a specially designed electric battery system.

In addition, one of the satellite stages at each show will be fully powered by energy generated by the audience via kinetic flooring and power bikes.
 
In June, the band announced that their Music Of The Spheres World Tour has so far produced 59 per cent less CO2 emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016/17, exceeding their original target of a 50 per cent reduction. They also revealed that nine million trees have been planted, to be followed by a further million before the end of the year.
 
Coldplay will make a limited number of Infinity Tickets available for the shows via Ticketmaster at 12 noon on Friday, November 22. Infinity Tickets are released for every Coldplay show to make the Music Of The Spheres World Tour accessible to fans for an affordable price.

As always, they will cost £20 per ticket, and they are restricted to a maximum of two tickets per purchaser and must be bought in pairs, which will be located next to each other, anywhere in the venue.
 
Since the first Music Of The Spheres World Tour date in March 2022, Coldplay have sold more than ten million tickets, making it the biggest tour by a group of all-time.
 
Coldplay’s tenth studio album, Moon Music, will be released on October 4 and will set new standards for sustainability, with each LP being made from 100 cent recycled plastic bottles (nine per record). It is available to pre-order on EcoCD, EcoRecord LP and digital via ukstore.coldplay.com.

Moon Music is the world’s first album to be released on EcopCD, created from 90 per cent recycled polycarbonate, sourced from waste otherwise headed for landfill.

The track listing is: Moon Music; feelslikeimfallinginlove; We Pray, featuring Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna and TINI; Jupiter; Good Feelings featuring Ayra Starr; 🌈; iAMM; Aeterna; All My Love and One World.