The Smiths Indeed - Liverpools Stanley Theatre October 28th

                  The Smiths Indeed

Who will be performing The Queen is Dead in it’s entirety to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the album’s release

"A brilliant tribute to The Smiths" (i-D Magazine)

 

If, in the Autumn of 1982, you were a pair of budding young songwriters and performers about to unleash a series of wounding pop songs about sexual attraction and solitude upon an unsuspecting Britain and were surrounded by bands with names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds and Slaughter and the Dogs, is it a surprise that your retort would be a name such as The Smiths?

Between October 1982, when The Smiths performed their first gig supporting Blue Rondo A La Turk at the Ritz in Manchester, and the release of their seminal album The Queen is Dead in June 1986, that same pair of songwriters, Morrissey and Marr, in conjunction with Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce, had written, recorded and performed a series of brilliantly illuminating pop songs that gave hope to a generation struggling to guide its way through the morass of a grey, turgid Britain blighted by the Falklands war, the Miners strike and Margaret Thatcher.

To celebrate the 25^th anniversary since release of The Queen is Dead the album will be performed in its entirety by The Smiths Indeed, who reproduce with uncanny accuracy, the energy and the pomp and ceremony of The Smiths during this period of the 1980’s. The Smiths Indeed have been performing since 2005 and developed a rapturous following of their own amongst the notoriously hard to please hardcore Smiths fans both old and new. Due to an increasing demand for their incredible ability to reproduce the atmosphere of a Smiths show, The Smiths Indeed will be moving their performance into larger venues, enabling them to incorporate a more sophisticated concert containing state of the art lighting and video content without losing the feel of a 1980’s gig.

The Smiths Indeed will perform The Queen is Dead and a Greatest Hits set at the following venues on the dates listed below:

 

Friday 28^th October – Liverpool University’s Stanley Theatre, Liverpool £13.50

Saturday 29^th October – Academy, Sheffield £13.50

Thursday 3^rd November – King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow £12.50

Friday 4^th November – Doghouse, Dundee £10.00

Saturday 5^th November – The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen £12.50

Thursday 10^th November – HMV Institute, Birmingham £13.50

Friday 11^th November – The Old Fire Station, Bournemouth £13.50

Saturday 12^th November – Academy, Oxford £13.50

 Thursday 17^th November – Garage, London £13.50

Friday 18^th November – Komedia, Brighton £13.50

Saturday 19^th November – Academy, Leicester £13.50

Thursday 24^th November – Academy, Newcastle £13.50

Saturday 26^th November – The Ritz, Manchester £13.50

MORE DATES TO FOLLOW

http://www.thesmithsindeed.co.uk/

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LENNON REMEMBERED AT THE ECHO ARENA LIVERPOOL

Chas Cole for CMP Entertainment in association with The Cavern Club

Celebrating the Life and Works of John Lennon
9/10/40 – 9/12/80



Liverpool’s favourite son John Lennon is remembered in his hometown at the Official 30th Anniversary Memorial Concert.



Musical stars of all eras will unite on stage when the ‘John Lennon Tribute Season’ closes with a unique and emotional charity concert finale LENNON REMEMBERED, on Thursday 9th December 2010, at the Liverpool Echo Arena. All proceeds from the concert will go to the Alder Hey ‘Imagine’ Appeal, Radio City’s Cash For Kids and The Mathew Street Festival.


LENNON REMEMBERED will take place in John’s birthplace 30 years on from his tragic, early death which shocked the world, and will commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday. The Memorial Concert, organised by The Cavern Club in association with Chas Cole, of CMP Entertainment, will form the climax of two months of celebrations of John Lennon’s unique contribution to the cultural landscape, not only of the city of his birth, but also his immortal position in global popular music.

John Lennon’s significance and appeal continues to span the generations, and musicians from every era will congregate on stage to remember, celebrate and perform unique versions of Lennon’s most famous songs – and, no doubt, one or two forgotten gems alongside them as well.

Performers confirmed to appear will be announced in the weeks to come, as this event unfolds and undoubtedly builds momentum and becomes a highly-charged, long-awaited tribute to one of the City’s, best loved sons.

John’s half sister, Julia Baird, has whole-heartedly backed the Concert – along with the whole John Lennon Tribute Season.



Julia Baird said “This will be a very emotional evening, not only for our family, but I’m sure it will be a very special night for the other performers on stage and for the audience, as we all unite in our love for John and his wonderful, immortal music.”

Bill Heckle, Director of The Cavern Club said “We have enjoyed many great musical nights in this City over the years, but an evening dedicated to John, attended by those who knew and loved him, as well as those who worked with him, plus the thousands of fans who, purely and simply, have been touched and moved by his music throughout our lives, will really make it into something special.”



A Liverpool and worldwide occasion not to be missed and a celebration and emotional evening of the musical legend himself, LENNON REMEMBERED.



PERFORMANCE DETAILS

LENNON REMEMBERED

Liverpool Echo Arena

Thursday 9 December, 7.30pm

Tickets: £27.50, £19.50 (plus a limited number of higher priced gold circle tickets)



How to Book: In person at The Echo Arena box office, Monarchs Key, Kings Dock
Liverpool, L1 4BX or alternatively call 0844 8000 400 or click www.echoarena.com

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