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ELECTRIC SIX – Announce Academy UK Tour Dates In 2024

• March 11, 2024
• UK Music News
• by Desh Kapur UK-Editor/Photographer

ELECTRIC SIX

RETURN FOR UK ACADEMY TOUR IN 2024

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW  HERE

Danger Danger! Electric Six will be back in the UK for a headline tour this Winter.

Following the roaring success of last year’s comeback record ‘Turquoise’, the Detroit renegades will be back to perform fresh cuts and immortal classics at a run of Academy shows in November. Dates and details can be found below.

Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms,  Electric Six  found international success through a relentless touring and recording schedule and an unerring commitment to their over-the-top style, delivering energy and absurdity in equal measure.

After winning a local following as the Wildbunch, Electric Six scored a major hit in the U.K. in 2003 with the song “ Danger! High Voltage “, and their debut album ‘Fire’, released the same year, earned them a major cult following with tunes like “ Dance Commander ” and “ Gay Bar “. From then on, musicians would come and go from the Electric Six line. The proportions of electronics to guitars would shift back and forth from album to album, but their essential formula of dance-friendly rock brimming with bombast and lunacy would never change. From 2005 onward, not a year would go by without a new E6 album and a string of shows in which Dick Valentine and co. would whip their fans into a frenzy.

While the COVID-19 pandemic put them on pause for a while, 2021’s covers set, ‘ Streets of Gold ’, put them back on their unstoppable schedule, and 2023’s ‘ Turquoise ’, a set of originals, presented them in high-spirited and irresponsible form.

Electric Six . The band that released an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small-time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behaviour. In a business so fickle, unreliable, and difficult to navigate…the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year…….until there wasn’t.

Behold ‘Turquoise’ is here, the long-awaited studio album return of Electric Six! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalogue, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole.

Returning to the  UK for Academy tour in 2024 , tickets for Electric Six are available now   – with the dates listed as follows:

Academy Events presents…

ELECTRIC SIX – UK TOUR 2024

NOVEMBER 27 – MANCHESTER, Academy

DECEMBER 2 – LEICESTER, O2 Academy2 3 – OXFORD, O2 Academy2 4 – BIRMINGHAM, O2 Academy2 5 – LIVERPOOL, O2 Academy 6 – BRISTOL, O2 Academy 7 – LONDON, O2 Academy Islington

Tickets available now here .

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Electric Six, the famously dynamic band known for their unique blend of rock, disco and punk, have announced their return to the UK with a series of Academy tour dates set for November and December 2024. The Detroit-based group, celebrated for their hit Danger! High Voltage  and the cult classic album  Fire , continues to charm fans with their over-the-top style and energetic performances. Following a brief hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Electric Six made a triumphant return with their latest album  Turquoise , signalling a return to form for the band. Tickets for the tour are on sale now, promising fans a chance to experience the band’s legendary live performances across several cities including Manchester, Leicester, Oxford, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and London.

Electric Six’s journey from local Detroit fame as the Wildbunch to international success has been marked by their commitment to delivering high-energy shows and a prolific output of albums. Despite lineup changes and shifts in musical direction, the band’s core ethos of creating dance-friendly rock music laced with humour and bombast has remained unchanged. The band’s relentless touring and recording schedule has solidified their reputation as one of the most consistently entertaining acts in the music industry.

The COVID-19 pandemic momentarily halted the band’s unstoppable momentum, but the release of  Streets of Gold , a covers set in 2021, and the original album  Turquoise  in 2023, marked the return of Electric Six’s irrepressible spirit.  Turquoise  in particular has been highlighted as perhaps the catchiest and brightest album in the band’s catalogue, showcasing their ability to produce pop anthems that command listeners to dance.

The announcement of the UK Academy tour in 2024 has excited fans and reaffirmed Electric Six’s status as a must-see live act. The band’s history of annual album releases and their unwavering dedication to their craft have made them a constant in an otherwise unpredictable music industry. With the upcoming tour, Electric Six is set to remind the UK why they have remained a beloved fixture in the world of rock and roll for over two decades.

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ELECTRIC SIX are back on tour in the UK.

They’re back. Again. Electric Six, the Detroit based ‘disco-punk band at the end of the world’, arrive in the UK next week for their annual autumn tour bonanza, with frontman Dick Valentine stating of this latest visit:       “They say the only constant…is change. But, ‘they’ are wrong….because Electric Six has been up on you constantly…and nothing has changed. You know you need to attend this year’s Electric Six show in your town because you know deep down that Electric Six is the only band that has completely re-written the rules of time, change and rules. Nineteen albums into this dirty business, Electric Six brings the year-end party to you….it is a constant…and it will never change. Come witness the BORN TO BE RIDICULED tour as Electric Six changes nothing about it’s tried and true formula for a good time! You might even touch Dick Valentine’s sensual hand.”

Here are the tour dates as the band have allowed them to be:

20.11.22   CAMBRIDGE  Six Six Bar   tickets 28.11.22   COTTINGHAM  Civic Hall   tickets 29.11.22   YORK  The Crescent   tickets 30.11.22   MANCHESTER  Club Academy   tickets 01.12.22   GLASGOW  St Luke’s   tickets 02.12.22   BELFAST  Limelight 2   tickets 03.12.22   DUBLIN  Academy   tickets 05.12.22   OXFORD  O2 Academy2   tickets 06.12.22   SHEFFIELD  O2 Academy2   tickets 07.12.22   LIVERPOOL  O2 Academy2   tickets 08.12.22   BIRMINGHAM  O2 Academy2   tickets 09.12.22   BRISTOL  O2 Academy   tickets 10.12.22   LONDON  O2 Academy Islington   tickets 11.12.22   BRIGHTON  Concorde 2   tickets

The most recent album of original material by Electric Six was ‘Bride Of The Devil’, released in 2018 via Metropolis Records, although they did also issue a record containing eleven eclectic covers (plus re-records of their two biggest UK hits) entitled ‘Streets Of Gold’ on Cleopatra in 2021. The fan favourite ‘The Worm In The Wood’ from the first of these can be heard  HERE  (Spotify) or  HERE  (Apple Music) or  HERE  (YouTube). A brand new full-length studio release is planned for 2023, a year that will also see the 20th Anniversary of their debut album ‘Fire’ promoted with a world tour. It was home to the hit singles ‘Danger! High Voltage’, ‘Gay Bar’ and ‘Dance Commander’

ELECTRIC SIX ARE Dick Valentine – vocals Johnny Na$hinal – lead guitar, backing vocals Tait Nucleus? – keyboards, backing vocals Da Vé – rhythm guitar, backing vocals Rob Lower – bass Hyperkube Bonanza – drums, backing vocals

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Electric Six Announce UK Academy Tour Dates For 2024

Following the roaring success of last year’s comeback record ‘Turquoise’, the Detroit renegades will be back to perform fresh cuts and immortal classics at a run of Academy shows in November. Dates and details can be found below.

Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms, Electric Six found international success through a relentless touring and recording schedule and an unerring commitment to their over-the-top style, delivering energy and absurdity in equal measure.

After winning a local following as the Wildbunch, Electric Six scored a major hit in the U.K. in 2003 with the song " Danger! High Voltage ", and their debut album ‘Fire’, released the same year, earned them a major cult following with tunes like " Dance Commander '' and " Gay Bar ". From then on, musicians would come and go from the Electric Six line. The proportions of electronics to guitars would shift back and forth from album to album, but their essential formula of dance-friendly rock brimming with bombast and lunacy would never change. From 2005 onward, not a year would go by without a new E6 album and a string of shows in which Dick Valentine and co. would whip their fans into a frenzy.

While the COVID-19 pandemic put them on pause for a while, 2021's covers set, ‘ Streets of Gold ’, put them back on their unstoppable schedule, and 2023's ‘ Turquoise ’, a set of originals, presented them in high-spirited and irresponsible form.

Electric Six . The band that released an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small-time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behaviour. In a business so fickle, unreliable, and difficult to navigate...the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year.......until there wasn’t.

Behold ‘Turquoise’ is here, the long-awaited studio album return of Electric Six! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalogue, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole.

Returning to the UK for Academy tour in 2024 , tickets for Electric Six are available now - with the dates listed as follows:

Academy Events presents… ELECTRIC SIX - UK TOUR 2024

NOVEMBER 27 - MANCHESTER, Academy

DECEMBER 2 - LEICESTER, O2 Academy2 3 - OXFORD, O2 Academy2 4 - BIRMINGHAM, O2 Academy2 5 - LIVERPOOL, O2 Academy 6 - BRISTOL, O2 Academy 7 - LONDON, O2 Academy Islington

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Everyone’s favourite disco-punk act Electric Six return to the UK/RoI in November and December to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their chartbusting debut album, Fire, which was home to the hit singles “Danger! High Voltage”, “Gay Bar”, and “Dance Commander”. The set will see the entire record performed in its entirety, as well as fan favourites and new songs.

Five years has gone by….and Electric Six has heard the chatter. “Electric Six just doesn’t have it anymore.” “Electric Six has really let me down.” “Gotye will have an album before Electric Six does.” As we all know, talk is cheap. Bullshit walks. Now there is a new goddamn Electric Six record ready to go and it’s good, Jack. Real good. Behold! ‘Turquoise’ is here, marking the long-awaited return of Electric Six!

Perhaps the band’s catchiest, brightest album, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole. The pandemic slowed us all down and ripped time into shreds. It forced E6 to take a little time to look at itself in the mirror. Who did they see staring back?  It saw Electric Six. It saw Turquoise.

Electric Six certainly felt the need to tap into the collective feelings of the time in songs like “Panic! Panic!” and the title track. The overall vibe of Turquoise ranges from the infectious pop of “Take Me To The Sugar” and “Staten Island Ass Squad”, to the heavy rock of “Child Of Hunger” and “Skywriting”, to the Springsteeny goodness of “Units Of Time”. Electric Six is a band for all tastes, all times and all sizes. When a band finally makes an album this exciting, it doesn’t need to do anything else anymore anytime soon ever again. But it will. Electric Six can never die. It’s still the band that does one album a year… if you re-define “year”. Which we do.

Fire 20th Anniversary Tour 27.11.23  COTTINGHAM Civic Hall 28.11.23  YORK The Crescent 29.11.23  MANCHESTER New Century Hall 30.11.23  EDINBURGH Liquid Room 01.12.23  BELFAST Limelight 02.12.23  DUBLIN Academy 04.12.23  BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy 05.12.23  BRISTOL O2 Academy 06.12.23  BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy2 07.12.23  LONDON O2 Academy Islington * 08.12.23  LIVERPOOL O2 Academy2 09.12.23  LONDON O2 Academy Islington 10.12.23  BRIGHTON Concorde

Electric Six are Dick Valentine – vocals Johnny Na$hinal – lead guitar, backing vocals Tait Nucleus? – keyboards, backing vocals Herb S. Flavourings – rhythm guitar Rob Lower – bass Dr. J – drums

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Electric Six UK Academy Tour Dates For 2024

Returning to the UK for Academy tour in 2024, tickets for Electric Six are available now.

Danger Danger! Electric Six will be back in the UK for a headline tour this Winter. Following the roaring success of last year's comeback record ‘Turquoise', the Detroit renegades will be back to perform fresh cuts and immortal classics at a run of Academy shows in November. Dates and details can be found below. Mixing garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms, Electric Six found international success through a relentless touring and recording schedule and an unerring commitment to their over-the-top style, delivering energy and absurdity in equal measure.

After winning a local following as the Wildbunch, Electric Six scored a major hit in the U.K. in 2003 with the song "Danger! High Voltage", and their debut album ‘Fire', released the same year, earned them a major cult following with tunes like "Dance Commander'' and "Gay Bar". From then on, musicians would come and go from the Electric Six line.

The proportions of electronics to guitars would shift back and forth from album to album, but their essential formula of dance-friendly rock brimming with bombast and lunacy would never change. From 2005 onward, not a year would go by without a new E6 album and a string of shows in which Dick Valentine and co. would whip their fans into a frenzy. While the COVID-19 pandemic put them on pause for a while, 2021's covers set, ‘Streets of Gold', put them back on their unstoppable schedule, and 2023's ‘Turquoise', a set of originals, presented them in high-spirited and irresponsible form. Electric Six. The band that released an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small-time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behaviour. In a business so fickle, unreliable, and difficult to navigate...the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year.......until there wasn't. Behold ‘Turquoise' is here, the long-awaited studio album return of Electric Six! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalogue, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole. Returning to the UK for Academy tour in 2024, tickets for Electric Six are available now - with the dates listed as follows:

ELECTRIC SIX - UK TOUR 2024

NOVEMBER 27 - MANCHESTER, Academy DECEMBER 2 - LEICESTER, O2 Academy2 3 - OXFORD, O2 Academy2 4 - BIRMINGHAM, O2 Academy2 5 - LIVERPOOL, O2 Academy 6 - BRISTOL, O2 Academy 7 - LONDON, O2 Academy Islington Tickets available now here .

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Canadian band TWRP have release a new single called ‘VHS’ and it features Electric Six. You can view the video below or download it from Bandcamp .

Electric Six announce 15th studio album Turquoise

Arriving five years after their last mainline album, Electric Six will be releasing ‘Turquoise’ – formally ‘Born to be Ridiculed’ on September 8th 2023 via Metropolis Records.

The 14-track album includes the title track and ‘Panic! Panic!’ which has previously been released as a demo, alongside its pandemic-themed video.

‘Panic! Panic!’, ‘Child of Hunger’ and one other, as yet unconfirmed track, have been played live at recent concerts.

The track list can be found below, and the CD or digital album can be pre-ordered here .

• Take Me To The Sugar
• Hot Numbers On The Telephone
• Panic! Panic!
• Skyrocketing
• Born To Be Ridiculed
• Child of Hunger
• Staten Island Ass Squad
• Window of Time
• Units of Time
• .Five Clowns
• The Browning of Her Bones
• The Wheel Finds A Way

Electric Six. The band that put out an album a year for what seemed like 666 years. The most reliable act in show business, there was simply no question that each year would bring another E6 record on Metropolis Records. Mayans based their calendar on Electric Six. Flocks of migrating birds used the new Electric Six record as a homing device. Small time criminals were sentenced to four to seven E6 albums with time off for wonderful behavior. In a business so fickle, so unreliable, so difficult to navigate…the only constant was Electric Six. There was always an album a year… ….until there wasn’t. Five years has gone by since the last Electric Six offering and we’ve heard the chatter. “Electric Six just doesn’t have it anymore.” “Electric Six has really let me down.” “Gotye will have an album before Electric Six does.” As we all know…talk is cheap. And bullshit walks. And now there’s a new goddamn Electric Six record ready to go and it’s good, Jack. Real good. Behold Turquoise is here, the long awaited studio album return of Electric Six!!! Perhaps the catchiest, brightest album in their catalog, Electric Six reminds you how profoundly fun they can be, hitting you over the head with fourteen pop explosions guaranteed to burrow their way into your dance hole. The recording of Turquoise began in January of 2020, but you know, something distracted us for a couple of years shortly after starting the record. The pandemic tacked a bit of time onto the schedule of this project and Electric Six certainly felt the need to tap into the collective feelings of the time in tracks like “Panic! Panic!” and the title track “Turquoise”. The overall vibe of Turquoise ranges from the infectious pop of “Take Me To The Sugar” and “Staten Island Ass Squad”, to the heavy rock of “Child Of Hunger” and “Skywriting”, to the Springsteeny goodness of “Units of Time”. Electric Six is a band for all tastes, all times and all sizes. The pandemic slowed us all down and ripped time into shreds. It forced Electric Six to take a little time to look at itself in the mirror. And who did Electric Six see staring back? The answer? It saw Electric Six. It saw Turquoise. When a band finally makes an album this exciting, it doesn’t need to do anything else anymore anytime soon ever again. But it will…..Electric Six can never die. And we are still the band that does one album a year….if you re-define “year”. Which we do.

New Solo Album announced

On the 22nd January 2023, Dick Valentine announced a new album – his ninth solo record – on his Facebook account. Called ‘This is Hell’ the track listing is below.

1. Evil When I Get Good 2. Recreational Cough Syrup Girls 3. This is Hell 4. Set of Steak Knives 5. Go Fund Me 6. The Song is You! 7. Malachi! Malachi! 8. manhattanites 9. Life on a Loop 10. Goodnight (Juana’s Gift) 11. Darlin’ Waterfall

New album announced

Alongside a post about new UK tour dates for Winter 2022, Electric Six have announced that they will be releasing a new album titled ‘Born to be Ridiculed’. Look out for more information soon.

New Electric Six video – Yah Mo B There

You can now watch the promo video for Electric Six’s cover of ‘Yah Mo B There’, ahead of the release of their upcoming album ‘Streets of Gold’.

Dick Valentine announces sixth solo album

Dick Valentine has announced details of his sixth solo album, ‘Parrot People’, which is due out digitally on December 24th 2020, and can be ordered as a CD copy directly through his Instagram account.

Potential song titles include:

• ALLES KLAR FOR THE ENERGY PEEPS
• AND IT FEELS
• FEAR FOOTAGE
• FINGERPRINTS ON YOUR SOUL
• GREASING UP THE MONOLITH
• I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM
• I LOVE YOU I STEAL YOUR GAS
• NINE COURSE MEAL
• PARROT PEOPLE
• PHILISTINE WALTZES
• SLOW NIGHTS
• THE STRAIGHTJACKET SISTERS
• WHY YOU WAGING WAR ON ME, DIVIDER?

Third 2020 livestreamed concert announced

Electric Six have announced their third and final livestream event of 2020 called “It’s The Most Wonderful Time…Of The Least Wonderful Year”

Tickets can be bought now on electricsix.com .

Two new albums announced

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High-voltage US rockers Electric Six have added The Kut as support on their ‘Born to be Ridiculed’ UK & Ireland Tour starting this month.

Hailing from Detroit, Michigan and best known for smash hits including “ Danger! High Voltage ” and “ Gay Bar ” the six-piece led by Dick Valentine are touring their latest album “ Born To Be Ridiculed ”.

The album is their first new record in almost four years, and may be the poppiest, danciest E6 we’ve known yet.

New kid on the block The Kut joins with her all-star female collective. She will support E6 at 13 of 14 UK & Ireland dates, bringing her Number 1 rock album ‘GRIT’ and a hefty dose of female unity.

The Electric Six tour moves through Germany, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Holland, Belgium and France before settling in to a purgatory of UK and Irish merriment this November and December.

ELECTRIC SIX ‘Born To Be Ridiculed’ UK & Ireland Tour

20 Nov CAMBRIDGE Six Six Bar [SOLD OUT] 28 Nov COTTINGHAM Civic Hall 29 Nov YORK Crescent Community Venue [SOLD OUT] 30 Nov MANCHESTER Club Academy* 1 Dec GLASGOW St Luke’s* 2 Dec BELFAST Limelight 3 Dec DUBLIN The Academy 5 Dec OXFORD O2 Academy 2 6 Dec SHEFFIELD O2 Academy 2 7 Dec LIVERPOOL O2 Academy 2 8 Dec BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy 2 9 Dec BRISTOL O2 Academy 10 Dec LONDON O2 Academy Islington 11 Dec BRIGHTON Concorde 2

*Remaining tickets for Manchester are only available via the Club Academy website. NB there is no support band in Glasgow. Shows in Cambridge and York are now sold out.

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Jeff Lynne’s ELO Announce Final Tour: ‘Over and Out’

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Jeff Lynne’s ELO have announced their final tour, dubbed “The Over and Out Tour.” The 27-date excursion, produced by Live Nation, will kick off in Palm Desert, CA on August 24 and travel across North America before concluding in Los Angeles on October 25.

Artist presale will begin on Wednesday, March 20 at 10 a.m. local time and the general onsale will start on Friday, March 22 at 10 a.m. local time. Exclusive VIP experiences will be available March 20 at 10am local.

“A brilliant catalog returns to U.S. stages and gives the strings-starved people what they want,” Variety wrote of the group’s previous tour in 2018. “The ELO catalog speaks for itself… and it was a glorious thing to behold… in a 19-song set that reprised the closest thing to truly Beatle-level pop the 1970s had to offer.”

ELO — originally named the Electric Light Orchestra — was formed in 1972 by singers/multi-instrumentalists Lynne and Roy Wood and drummer Bev Bevan from the ashes of legendary rockers the Move, with the intention of fusing rock music with classical instruments. Wood left after one album and Lynne assumed leadership of the group — taking on lead singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist roles — which went on to score such massive hits through the ‘70s as “Evil Woman,” “Strange Magic,” “Living Thing,” “Can’t Get It Out of My Head,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Telephone Line,” “Don’t Bring Me Down” and more.

Lynne revived the ELO brand in 2001, with himself and longtime keyboardist Richard Tandy as the only remaining early members, for the album “Zoom” (featuring Harrison and Starr) and tour. He did so again in 2014 and has toured extensively and released two albums with the group, 2015’s “Alone in the Universe” and 2019’s “From Out of Nowhere.”

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August 24       Palm Desert, CA                     Acrisure Arena

August 27       Seattle, WA                            Climate Pledge Arena

August 28       Vancouver, BC                       Rogers Arena

August 30       Portland, OR                           Moda Center

September 1    San Francisco, CA                  Chase Center

September 6    St. Louis, MO                         Enterprise Center

September 7    Indianapolis, IN                      Gainbridge Fieldhouse

September 9    Toronto, ON                           Scotiabank Arena

September 10  Pittsburgh, PA                        PPG Paints Arena

September 13  Cincinnati, OH                       Heritage Bank Center

September 14  Cleveland, OH                        Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

September 20  Philadelphia, PA                     Wells Fargo Center

September 23  Boston, MA                            TD Garden

September 25  Washington, DC                     Capital One Arena

September 27  Chicago, IL                             United Center

September 30  St, Paul, MN                           Xcel Energy Center

October 2        Denver, CO                             Ball Arena

October 9        Detroit, MI                              Little Caesars Arena

October 11      Nashville, TN                         Bridgestone Arena

October 12      Atlanta, GA                            State Farm Arena

October 15      Austin, TX                              Moody Center

October 16      Houston, TX                           Toyota Center

October 18      Dallas, TX                              American Airlines Center

October 23      Sacramento, CA                     Golden 1 Center

October 25      Los Angeles, CA                    Kia Forum

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Jeff Lynne's ELO announce final tour: How to get tickets to Over and Out

Jeff Lynne’s ELO dazzled audiences with a show of sonic perfection when the band reappeared in the U.S. in 2018-2019.

Now, the melodic wizard and his ace musical comrades will hit the road a final time for The Over and Out Tour. A 27-date outing will commence Aug. 24 in Palm Desert, California and wrap Oct. 25 in Los Angeles. In between, Lynne and ELO will visit cities including Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Houston and Washington, D.C.

An ELO presale begins at 10 a.m. local time March 20, with the general sale starting at 10 a.m. local time March 22. VIP experiences will also go on sale at 10 a.m. local time March 20. Tickets will be available via livenation.com and details about the VIP packages at jefflynneselo.com.

During the band’s last U.S. run , Lynne offered a 20-song setlist that included Electric Light Orchestra gems “Evil Woman,” “Don’t Bring Me Down,” “Telephone Line” and “Do Ya,” all reproduced with stunning clarity. Even the underappreciated and much-maligned “Xanadu” from the 1980 Olivia Newton-John movie received its due.

In addition to his prowess as a producer, Lynne was also a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. The collective also received a nod in the live production with a comforting rendition of “Handle with Care.”

Lynne was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023 and ELO ushered into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Money blog: Eight major price hikes next week - but it's not all bad news as pensions, benefits and your take-home pay rise

National Price Hike Day is on Monday, with water bills, broadband, council tax and the TV licence among the things going up. Read this and more in the Money blog - your place for consumer and personal finance news. Leave a comment on the stories we're covering, or a Money Problem, below.

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1 April (next Monday) is nicknamed National Price Hike Day, as it's when government bodies and private companies traditionally increase the cost of goods and services ahead of the new financial year.

So what can we expect this year?

TV and broadband

BT, EE, Plusnet and Vodafone customers will be charged 7.9% more from April. These companies pin their prices to December's inflation figure plus 3.9%, which is common practice in the industry.

Virgin Media and O2, which merged in 2021, are upping prices by 8.8%, as they use the retail price index from January plus 3.9%. There are caveats which mean some O2 customers will see prices rise by less than this.

Sky is also implementing price rises, meaning most Sky TV and broadband customers will pay an average of 6.7% more from 1 April.

Council tax

Most people who live in councils with responsibility for social care in England will see their bills rise by the maximum of 4.99%.

In areas where the councils don't oversee social care, the rise for most will be 2.99%.

Birmingham City Council, which has declared effective bankruptcy, has been given permission to hike council tax by 21% over two years due to a black hole caused partly by equal pay claims and a botched IT systems rollout.

Council tax has been frozen by the devolved government in Scotland, while rises in Wales range anywhere from 3% to 21%. Northern Ireland uses a rating system instead of council tax, and rises are also expected here.

The annual cost of a standard colour TV licence will rise to £169.50 from 1 April - an increase of £10.50 on the current price of £159 a year.

Rent for social housing

The CPI rate of inflation in September - 6.7% - is used to determine the yearly rise in rents. 

For 2024-25, the limit will be 6.7% plus an additional 1%.

The average household water and sewerage bill in England and Wales will go up by an average of 6% from April . 

Water UK said the increases would leave households with an average annual bill of £473.

Vehicle excise duty will rise on all but the cleanest new and used cars in April.

Increases are generally calculated in line with the RPI rate of inflation and are expected to be about 6%.

Train fares

Rail fares will rise by 8.7% in April for those in Scotland, after the Scottish government argued previous fare freezes were not sustainable. 

For those in England and Wales, fares rose by 4.9% on 3 March. 

The Royal Mail will raise the price of stamps again as the company struggles with a decline in the number of letters being posted.

The price of a first class and second class stamp will increase by 10p to £1.35 and 85p respectively from 2 April.

It's not all bad news in April

National insurance

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the budget earlier this month that the starting rate for NI will change from 10% to 8% from 6 April.

This will benefit 27 million workers, he said, and is worth about £450 a year to an employee on an average salary of £35,000.

NI for two million self-employed workers is also being cut.

Their rate will fall from 8% to 6%. The government says that is worth £350 to a self-employed person earning £28,200.

Child benefit

The amount people can earn before child benefit is reduced or taken away is increasing.

At the moment, people lose 1% of the benefit for every £100 they earn over £50,000. At £60,000, the benefit is cut completely.

From April, the benefit won't be reduced until one parent earns more than £60,000. And it will only go completely at £80,000.

Benefits and tax credits that are linked to inflation will rise by 6.7% in April.

That was the level CPI in September.

For joint claimants over the age of 25, universal credit standard allowances will rise from £578.82 to £617.60 per month.

The basic and new state pension will rise by 8.5% in April - to £11,502 a year.

The new state pension is for those reaching state pension age on or after 6 April 2016. It will rise to £221.20 a week - up from £203.85.

Minimum wage

The National Minimum Wage for those 21 and over will rise to £11.44 - an increase of £1.02, or 9.8%.

There are larger percentage increases for younger age groups -as well as a 21.2% rise for apprentices (going up to £6.40).

Energy price cap

From 1 April to 30 June this year the price paid by a typical household that uses electricity and gas will go down to £1,690 a year.

This is £238 a year lower than the price cap between 1 January and 31 March this year. 

For the first time, COVID-19 jabs will be available on the high street.

Boots has become the first major pharmacy to launch a private vaccination service, with at least 50 stores offering the single-dose Pfizer vaccine.

The shot will be available from 1 April for anyone aged 12 or over - but there's a hefty price tag.

The vaccine will be priced at £98.95. 

Boots has said it is working to make the vaccine more affordable, but the COVID jabs are more expensive to produce than others.

Some people are still eligible to get a booster vaccine for free on the NHS - including those over 65 or with weakened immune systems due to conditions such as cancer.

The discount supermarket has said it plans to increase its animal welfare standards by allowing more space for its chickens to roam. 

Chickens used in its own-label products will have 20% more space than the industry standard, with a maximum density of 30kg per square metre, Lidl said.

The transition will start this summer and should finish by early next year. 

The move will provide chickens with more space to roam, which Lidl said "enables them to engage in natural behaviours like stretching their wings, dust bathing and exploring, bolstering both physical and psychological well-being, leading to more fulfilling lives".

Lidl GB chief commercial officer Richard Bourns said: "Animal welfare is a priority for us, and we are dedicated to ensuring all animals within our supply chain lead good lives."

The supermarket was previously criticised by campaign group The Humane League UK, which said it was "very resistant" to making changes on animal welfare.

It had called on Lidl and other supermarkets to sign the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) - a welfare policy requiring the use of slower-growing breeds, more space, natural light and enrichment, less painful slaughter methods and third-party auditing. 

Partners Ocado and M&S appear to have been involved in a tussle for some weeks, but the former has now insisted they are "absolutely aligned".

The retailers have been in a dispute after M&S put its final payment for the joint venture on hold, saying the online grocer partnership had failed to meet key performance targets. 

M&S was due to pay £190.7m by August, dependent on the venture's performance against an undisclosed target in the year to November 2023. 

Last month, Ocado Group chief executive Tim Steiner said he believed M&S owed a "substantial amount of money" and if a settlement was not agreed it could pursue litigation. 

However, Ocado Retail chief executive Hannah Gibson has now insisted conversations are ongoing and it is not impacting day-to-day operations. 

Ms Gibson claimed both companies were "working really closely operationally together".

"They were in a board meeting and there were positive conversations and relationships going on focused on what we're doing now to grow and improve the business," she said.

"I think we're all absolutely aligned."

Nearly four million smart meters across Great Britain are not working properly , government figures show.

While some 2.7 million meters were not operating in smart mode as of June 2023, that figure increased to 3.98 million by the end of last year, according to data from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

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Fundraisers doing door-to-door collections for charities will be monitored more closely , the Fundraising Regulator has said. 

News reports found recruits were being taught pressure-selling tactics, despite the Code of Fundraising Practice warning against putting "undue pressure" on people.

Charities must monitor subcontracting firms carrying out fundraising on their behalf more closely and must ensure fundraisers are given appropriate training. 

ITV racked up millions of pounds in legal costs last year as it dealt with the fallout of the Phillip Schofield scandal , according to a report.

The broadcaster paid £24m in legal fees in 2023, some of which were related to a KC review into Schofield's affair with a young colleague. 

The presenter of This Morning stepped down in May last year, saying his relationship with the studio runner was "unwise, but not illegal". 

ITV was cleared of wrongdoing and has denied it paid a settlement to Schofield or his younger colleague.

Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis has called on the government to close a tax loophole used by fast fashion giants such as Temu and Shein.

He argued companies are avoiding customs bills in the UK by shipping individual orders directly from countries like China, rather than shipping in bulk to fulfilment centres. 

A UK rule means shipments worth less than £135 are exempt from import duties.

Basically, a recession is the decline of a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

It's worth explaining a bit more about what GDP is before we get in-depth on recession.

Gross domestic product is the world's most closely watched economic indicator. It measures how much is produced, how much is spent and how much is earned in an economy over a certain period of time.

When GDP goes up, the economy is considered to be doing well.

When it goes down - negative growth or economic contraction - it's not doing well.

The most commonly used definition of a recession is when GDP falls for at least two successive three-month periods, or "quarters".

The Office for National Statistics says the "two quarters" rule has the potential to be misleading, however, as there are other factors that might mean GDP falls for six months that won't mean an economy is in recession.

But it's widely used - including by the Bank of England - as a rule of thumb.

Recessions are temporary and part of the economic cycle. If an economic downturn is particularly severe or lasts for a long period of time, it's known as a depression.

Why do some people talk about a 'technical recession'?

You may have heard economists, journalists or statisticians use this phrase before.

As we've said above, in the UK a recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth regardless of how deep, wide-ranging and long an economic downturn is.

Some will use the phrase "technical recession" to identify that they're applying this prescriptive definition of a recession, compared to, say, the US where the National Bureau of Economic Research will consider a broader range of economic indicators, such as unemployment, job vacancies and wage data, before declaring whether the economy is in recession.

What causes a recession?

It's difficult to determine exactly what causes a recession, as a number of factors can be at play.

They can be triggered by rising interest rates, economic shocks such as that experienced during the COVID pandemic, excess debt in the housing market (2008 crisis) and oversupply of goods and services - among many other things.

What happens during a recession and how would it affect me?

During a recession there's less money circulating, which can mean job losses, pay cuts, recruitment freezes and businesses shutting up shop.

Getting a mortgage or loan during a recession will prove hard as banks tighten their lending criteria.

It is also likely a recession will not be felt equally across society, with those on benefits, in precarious work or without savings faring worse.

Are we in a recession now?

Figures released by the ONS last month showed the UK slipped into a recession at the end of 2023.

But the economy is set to grow more than expected in 2024, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility - the country's fiscal watchdog - which is also expecting better economic growth in 2025 than previously forecast.

Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, also hinted in February that the recession may "already be over". He told a committee of MPs he believed the downturn would be one of the most shallow recession events of modern times.

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Prosecutions for low level offences such as speeding, truancy and TV licence fee non-payments are usually dealt with behind-closed-doors by the Single Justice Procedure (SJP).

It's designed to keep the court system efficient and minimise delays to more serious cases in the magistrates' courts. 

But the Magistrates' Association has intervened to call for a reform of the SJP system, saying "flaws" in the system mean magistrates do not have enough time to consider cases and that it is harming "some of society's most vulnerable people". 

The association is urging the Ministry of Justice to carry out a 12-point plan, including allowing prosecutors to see all pleas and mitigations beforehand, and letting the sittings be observed by journalists. 

Up to 40,000 SJP cases are currently decided in private each month. 

News reports say cases prosecuted by the SJP include a 78-year-old with dementia fined for not having car insurance while she was in a care home, a 33-year-old given a £781 legal bill after accidentally failing to pay £4 to the DVLA, and an 85-year-old woman prosecuted for not paying car insurance after suffering a broken neck and being admitted to a care home. 

A black Uber Eats courier has been given a payout to end a legal claim in which he alleged he was unfairly blocked from work because the company's facial recognition app was racist.

Pa Manjang had his courier account suspended after being told security selfie checks he provided had "continued mismatches". 

Couriers need to provide the photo checks at the start of their shifts, but Mr Manjang said he had been asked to take pictures of himself "multiple times a day" because the AI software failed to recognise him.

He told Uber Eats: "Your algorithm, by the looks of things, is racist."

The food delivery app has said its verification process also involves human reviewers.  

Mr Manjang was backed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the App Drivers and Couriers Union, who funded his case.

Both said they were concerned by the use of AI in this instance, "particularly how it could be used to permanently suspend a driver's access to the app, depriving them of an income".

Uber Eats has made a settlement in the case, but reports suggest it accepts no liability.

The company said in a statement to Sky News that the real-time ID check "was not the reason for Mr Manjang's brief loss of access to his courier account".

"Our Real Time ID check is designed to help keep everyone who uses our app safe, and includes robust human review to make sure that we're not making decisions about someone's livelihood in a vacuum, without oversight," it said.

By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire , business reporter

The possibility of a new record high being reached by the most valuable companies of the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 has ebbed away. 

The index is down slightly (0.06%) this morning, no longer within touching distance of the all-time high in the combined value of the FTSE 100 companies recorded in February last year, as the rally that came late last week receded. 

The news that Asos sales fell 18% in the six months to March did nothing to dent the share price - it was up 7.6% but comes after a fall of 90% across the last three years. 

Performing well this morning is gambling giant Flutter, the owner of Paddy Power and Betfair brands. Today it announced it is moving its primary stock exchange listing to New York on 31 May, a blow to London. But it also recorded revenue growth of 17.3% in the UK and Ireland as it said its market share grew in the countries. 

Oil prices have fallen from the $87 a barrel cost of Monday and now the benchmark Brent crude oil costs $86.8.

A pound buys $1.2647 and €1.1659.

Chocolate is among the products placing upwards pressure on grocery inflation in the run-up to Easter, according to closely watched supermarket data.

Kantar Worldpanel, which tracks pricing and market share, reported a further slowing in the pace of price growth across the sector over the four weeks to 17 March.

It said the annual rate for grocery inflation eased to 4.5% - down from the 5.3% figure recorded the previous month.

The report credited price matching guarantees across the industry, as shoppers continue to seek out value amid the wider cost of living crisis that is continuing to damage household spending power despite wage growth firmly outstripping the rate of inflation.

Kantar reported that prices were rising fastest in markets such as sugar confectionery and chocolate confectionery.

Global cocoa prices have nearly doubled so far this year. Heavy rains in West Africa, where most of the world's cocoa is grown, have hit production.

Things falling fastest include butter, milk and toilet tissues, it found.

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