The not so beautiful The South to visit Parr Hall

AFTER a successful Spring and Summer touring the country and playing Festivals, The South are looking forward to finishing 2014 visiting a few towns and cities they’ve never played before, including Warrington’s Parr Hall on Saturday October 25.
The combination of Beautiful South hits and album tracks as well as original songs from their debut album, Sweet Refrains has hit a pleasure nerve around the country.
On disbanding the Beautiful South in 2007, original members Dave Hemingway and Alison Wheeler went on to form The South and with mainstays Damon Butcher, Tony Robertson and Gaz Birtles (keyboards and brass since the very beginning of The Beautiful South): this talented 9 piece continue to celebrate the music of the Beautiful South and take on the challenge of creating new material for the band.
Now with one highly acclaimed album ‘Sweet Refrains’ under their belt, The South are ramping up a gear for what has been an amazing 2014. With a marathon 64 gigs this year, there’s life in the old dogs yet!
Their rich tapestry of music is wooing audiences far and wide, as they continue to receive ovations from all corners of the UK. People keep coming back again and again on the very same tour, so these guys are obviously doing something right!
With both old and new tunes that stand the test of time, experience this amazing live band performing great songs from Sweet Refrains and classics that can never be forgotten: including Perfect 10, A Little Time, Rotterdam, Don’t Marry Her, You Keep It All In, to name but a few.
After 20 years, ten studio albums, three greatest hits compilations, thirty-four chart singles, 15 million record sales worldwide and performing in front of millions of fans, when time was called on The Beautiful South in 2007, not everyone was ready to leave the party.
Dave Hemingway and Ali Wheeler, lead singers with the band – along with departed songwriter Paul Heaton – were having too much fun to get out the pipe and slippers, and so The South was formed. Joining the duo were fellow mainstays from the original touring band: keyboard wizard Damon Butcher and the potent horn section of Gaz Birtles and Tony Robinson that brought so much to the live shows. Armed with a sensational back catalogue of hits such as ‘Song For Whoever’, ‘Perfect Ten’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Don’t Marry Her’, ‘You Keep It All In’, ‘Old Red Eyes Is Back’ and many others, there is a long way to go on this particular road.
Formed in 1988 The Beautiful South had a string of hit singles such as Old Red Eyes Is Back, Rotterdam, Don’t Marry Her, Perfect 10 and number 1 single, A Little Time. Their greatest hits album, Carry On Up The Charts, was one of the fastest-selling albums in UK history, entering at Number 1 and staying there for weeks, becoming one of the country’s most popular albums ever.
Over the life of the band, they produced many Heaton/Rotheray penned hits and had several number one albums – they scored their only number one single with the Dave Hemingway / Briana Corrigan duet ‘A Little Time’. A globally successful band, members of The South have performed these songs in front of hordes of fans from Hull to Las Angeles.
Last year The South continued to supply new, fresh, caustic pop on their debut album “Sweet Refrains”, which was released in November 2012 on Zoo Records to critical acclaim.
A successful tour of the UK to promote the Sweet Refrains album saw them selling out many venues, proving that fans still want hear the great old tunes as well as the new songs.
The South may not be so Beautiful anymore, but they certainly have history. And the future looks bright…
For tickets call the Box Office on 01925 442345 or visit http://www.pyramidparrhall.com/