A dose of Britpop coming to Barnoldswick later this year
Barnoldswick will get a taste of Britpop classics this December.
The Bluetones are set to return to Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre for two very special Christmas performances later this year — an Afternoon Matinee and an Evening Show — bringing one of Britain's richest indie catalogues into one of the country's most intimate listening rooms.
The Britpop band, fronted by Mark Morriss, will perform two acoustic sets in Barnoldswick on Sunday, December 13th, where they’ll perform a selection of fan-favourites and hits from their debut album - Expecting to Fly.
The album, which was released 30 years ago, famously reached No.1 in 1996, knocking Oasis from the summit of the UK Albums Chart. The Bluetones immediately established themselves as one of the defining voices of British guitar music, securing a platinum album and the timeless Slight Return climbed to No.2, becoming one of the most recognisable singles of the entire Britpop era.
Six studio albums, three Top Ten albums and fourteen Top 40 singles later, their catalogue continues to stand among the strongest of the generation.
Recent years have seen the band enjoy a remarkable creative renaissance, releasing a trilogy of EPs, which evolved into the album ‘Atlas’, which includes tracks such as Drive Thru, Cheap Hotel, London Weekend Television, Go Slow, In The Cut and Lux Interior.
Their acoustic shows have played to near sell-out audiences throughout Britain and continue to expand into Ireland and Scandinavia, while the full band are celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Expecting To Fly with an extensive UK tour — testament to a catalogue that refuses to fade with time. Between songs come the stories behind the records, the laughs, the gentle self-deprecation and the effortless chemistry that only decades of friendship can produce.
If you want to see cherished classics performed alongside Bluetones’ new music, you can catch them in the intimate surroundings of Barnoldswick’s Music & Arts Centre in December. Tickets are available at https://www.barnoldswickmusicandartscentre.com/the-bluetones-acoustic