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The band have had 18 top 40 singles, including Lessons in Love, Something About You, Leaving Me Now, Running in the Family, and Hot Water, sold out Wembley Arena for a total of 21 nights and sold in excess of 30 million albums
worldwide.
In short they have proven to be one of the most successful British bands of the 1980’s!!
The Vamps due to commence their Four Corners UK & Ireland Tour from April will be performing all their hits including ‘Can We Dance’, ‘Wild Heart’, ‘Last Night’, ‘Oh Cecilia’, ‘Somebody to You’ any many more!
The band's most recent album Night & Day (Night Edition) scored the top spot on the Official Albums Chart and also stormed into the Top 10 on iTunes in over 20 countries. Their most recent tour sold over 100,000 tickets!
Get your tickets now to see Brad, James, Connor and Tristan in Solihull!
BLONDE rose to fame after their two Top 10 hits with ‘I Loved You’ and ‘All Cried Out’, their Craig David collaboration ‘Nothing Like This’ ensured that they have accumulated three Gold records, over 200 million streams on Spotify, 1.5 million domestic sales and a combined total of over seven months in the Top 40.
With a remarkable career spanning over 3 decades and with record sales in excess of over 30 million albums, LEEE JOHN and his group IMAGINATION released and successfully had so many amazing classic hits.
Both Platinum, Gold, and Silver albums, and singles such as Body Talk, Just An Illusion, Flashback, Music and Lights, and Changes.
Heather Small was, and is the voice of M People.
M People had massive hits in the 90s including ‘Moving On Up’, ‘How Can I Love You More?’, ‘Search For The Hero’ and ‘One Night In Heaven’. The band won the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 and won the Best British Dance Act at the Brit Awards in both 1994 and 1995! Heather Small has released two solo albums and has had major success with the anthem ‘Proud’. The track has been used on numerous occasions including the successful London 2012 Olympics bid and also by Oprah Winfrey.
Trevor hosted the first ever national RNB show ‘The Rhythm Nation’ on BBC Radio 1 and continued to present the Saturday slot 7-9pm for a further 17 years.
1998, Trevor joined MTV to host their flagship R&B show ‘The Lick’, the show aired for 11 years on MTV base making it the longest-running show on the channel. Trevor went onto host the first ever MTV Africa Awards from Abuja, Nigeria.
He has released 10 compilation albums INCredible sound of Trevor Nelson, The Soul Nation, “Lick” compilations and The Trevor Nelson Collection. His most recent compilation album is Trevor Nelson Club Classics. Picking up where his Lick and The Trevor Nelson Collections compilations left off, he shares his favourite R&B, Soul and Rap classics from over the decades.
Trevor has won numerous plaudits including 4 MOBOS, an MBE for his work with the millennium volunteers. In 2010 he was awarded with the special gold lifetime achievement award for his services to broadcasting, at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Trevor currently broadcasts across 2 radio networks: BBC 1Xtra Sunday 4pm-7pm and on BBC Radio 2 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation Monday-Thursday 10pm-Midnight.
Mercury music prize winner with debut album.
Ms Dynamite was awarded an MBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Winner of 2 Brit awards & Mobo Awards, 4 x Top 25 UK Singles , 5 x Top 25 UK singles as collaborations
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known for bringing the genre its first mainstream success with the smash hit ‘Rapper’s Delight’ in 1979. With a backing based on Chic’s disco classic ‘Good Times’, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ was the first hip hop song to make the US Billboard Hot 100. ‘Rapper’s Delight’ remains one of the best known, most quoted and most loved hip hop tracks in history, opening the door for every hip hop act we know and love today.
After announcing their arrival on ‘Rapper’s Delight’, The Sugarhill Gang released several more hits including ‘Apache’, ‘8th Wonder’ which they performed on Soul Train in 1981, ‘Rapper’s Reprise (Jam Jam)’ which is a sequel to their debut hit, and ‘Showdown’ which featured the Furious Five.
In August of 2013, Mitchell had the opportunity to participate in The Voice Of Holland - the original programme, which other countries, including America, now base their own competitions known as The Voice. The Voice Of Holland catapulted Brunings into the spotlight. Nearly winning the competition as the runner-up, Mitchell's YouTube videos continue to put him in the limelight, and brought him into contact with the Marley family.
In 2015, Mitchell played the lead role in the Marley musical at Baltimore's Center Stage Theatre. It sold out before the end of its run, and was the highest-grossing and best attended show in the company's history.
Locally he has been the lead of sell out shows 'One Love' Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep Theatre) & 'Marley Reprised’ (New Alexandra Theatre)
Mitchell will be performing a full LIVE set with his band at The Solihull Summer Fest on Saturday 27th July 2019
For reggae music lovers this is a performance not to be missed.
The worlds number one Robbie Williams tribute act, with 14 years of shows in 19 countries worldwide. Playing to over 2 million people in live performances during his career to date.
Recognised by the man himself Robbie Williams has seen JK perform and was taken aback by how similar JK was to himself. Even saying "it was like watching myself"
JK has toured all major theatres throughout the world and in 2013 performed his first stadium show.
The iconic, Sheffield born '80's supergroup will be headlining on Sunday 28th July,
Enjoy a FULL LIVE SHOW with the band performing all of their Greatest Hits including Don't You Want Me, (Keep Feeling) Fascination, Open Your Heart, Love Action, Mirror Man and MANY MORE!
The band who gave us a great Christmas Number 1 single in 1981 with ’Don’t You Want Me’, have had four Top 10 albums and eight Top 10 singles in the UK as well as two US Number 1 singles and sold 20 million records worldwide.
It has been 32 years since Scottish twins Craig & Charlie Reid aka The Proclaimers emerged. Since then, their enduring appeal across generations has carved a niche for themselves where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide as the emotional honesty, political fire, wit and sing-along raucousness of their songs and their extensive touring has enlightened and entertained fans throughout the World.
They have even inspired a musical, the play and film ‘Sunshine on Leith’. The musical had its fourth UK run from April to June last year, with its biggest production to date by West Yorkshire Playhouse. 2018 also marked the 30th anniversary since the release of the Sunshine On Leith album and in August saw The Proclaimers add to their magnificent songbook with the release of their 11th studio album ‘Angry Cyclist’.
Following their sell out tour across the UK last year, The Proclaimers will be back on the road this year and performing LIVE at Solihull Summer Fest!
Their debut single ‘We Close Our Eyes’ was released in the spring of 1985. It reached number 5 in the UK charts and became a top 10 hit in the USA. This ‘overnight’ success was followed by three further UK top 10 hits – ‘Call Me’, ‘Goodbye Girl’ and ‘Don’t Look Down’. The album ‘Go West’ sold 2 million copies worldwide and remained on the UK chart for 83 weeks, establishing them as one of the finest song-writing partnerships to emerge in the 80’s. In 1986 they won the BRIT Award for ‘Best British Newcomer’ – the one BRIT which was decided by the listening public.
Six albums and 20 million sales later, Go West are stronger than ever. They have enjoyed numerous chart singles worldwide, notably ‘King Of Wishful Thinking’, the opening song in the extremely successful film ‘Pretty Woman’. The film’s soundtrack has sold over 10 million copies. ‘King Of Wishful Thinking’ received ASCAP Awards in 1991 and 1992 as one of the most played songs on American radio. ‘Faithful’, the second single from their ‘Indian Summer’ album received similar BMI Awards in 1992 and 1993.
This legendary British Ska band are still packing venues out all over the world. Tours of the USA, Australia and Europe still dominate their heavy touring schedule, this year is the bands 40 Year Anniversary Tour!
Bad Manners had huge chart success in the 80’s with 6 x Top Twenty Singles including ‘Lip Up Fatty’, “Special Brew’, ‘Can Can’, ‘My Girl Lollipop’.
The band are still fronted by the man himself Buster Bloodvessel.
Celebrating 20 years on the road in 2019, MERCURY are well established as one of the world’s most authentic tributes to the legend that is Freddie Mercury and Queen.
Including performances of the most popular Queen hits, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock You and many more, this band will captivate any audience - from die-hard Queen fans through to new generations of music lovers in a way that Freddie and Queen themselves would be proud of.
“Freddie was an original. He and Queen were the best. But now, in this new century, Joseph, Glenn and Mercury are the next best thing.”
Jer Bulsara (Freddie’s Mum)
Garry not only looks like Rod Stewart, he sounds like him too! performing all of the favourites from Rod Stewart’s vast portfolio of songs.
He is one of those incredible tributes where you can hardly tell the difference between Garry and Rod Stewart!
The Rod Stewart Experience will have you singing along and dancing on your feet in no time at alL!
