Indeed winter may be on its way but the winter season at First Direct Arena is going to be red hot with some of the biggest performers set to grace their stage during the dark nights.
It is finally happening. WITHIN TEMPTATION and EVANESCENCE will be at the First Direct Arena as part of dates to the UK leg of their WORLDS COLLIDE tour. Twice rescheduled from 2021, fronted by two of the most influential and creative women in the rock world in the form of Amy Lee from Evanescence and Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, the two bands play this double header on 19th November.
At the core of the BRIT Rising Star, HOLLY HUMBERSTONE is her love of the craft and art of storytelling. Through her breakthrough debut EP “Falling Asleep At The Wheel” released in 2020, to critically revered “The Walls Are Way Too Thin” released last year, and sublime singles “London Is Lonely” and “Sleep Tight”, Holly captures the universal feeling of anxiety when you leave home, move to a new city and feel lost and displaced, to finally having a small place of your own. Audiences have grown up with Holly, and doubtless she will hit the arena in 2023. But at the moment beat the crowds as she takes to countless stages with just her guitar and keys. She told us “I guess this is me closing the chapter on the first part of my journey. I’m writing my debut album as we speak and it’s going to come next year. It’s my most personal music yet and I hope I can continue to document my experiences for them to become yours” Holly plays the O2 Academy on the 23rd.
FLORENCE+THE MACHINE released her 5th studio album Dance Fever, earlier this year, hitting the number 1 spot in the UK charts on release, marking her forth album to achieve this feat. An album that sees Florence at the peak of her powers, coming into a fully realised self-knowledge, poking sly fun at her own self-created persona, playing with ideas of identity, masculine and feminine, redemptive, celebratory, stepping fully into her place in the iconic pantheon. Catch them on 25th November.
Less than a month later and Following the release of his 31st studio album The Tears of Hercules, Sir ROD STEWART will once again hit the road in 2022 with a massive U.K. Tour. Rod’s 2022 shows promise to be filled with show-stopping classics and new hits in his unmissable captivating style. Rod Stewart is one of the best-selling artists in the history of recorded music, with an estimated 250 million records and singles sold worldwide, his performance will include fan favourites from across his impressive career. Rod has had it all. He’s been lauded as the finest singer of his generation; he’s written several songs that turned into modern standards; earned countless of the industry’s highest awards, among them, two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the ASCAP Founders Award for songwriting, New York Times bestselling author, Grammy™ Living Legend, and in 2016 he officially became ‘Sir Rod Stewart’ after being knighted by Prince William at Buckingham Palace for his services to music and charity. He hits the arena on 13th December.
In support of ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’, The 1975 have announced details of the UK & Ireland leg of their ‘At Their Very Best’ tour in January 2023. The 1975 made their long awaited live comeback last month, headlining Japan’s biggest rock festival Summer Sonic 2022 in Tokyo and Osaka before returning for two triumphant homecoming headline slots at Reading & Leeds Festival. The band’s previous album, 2020’s ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’, became their fourth consecutive No. 1 album in the UK, landing at No. 1 in Australia too. The band were named NME’s ‘Band of the Decade’ in 2020 after being crowned ‘Best Group’ at the BRIT Awards in both 2017 & 2019. Their third studio album, ‘A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’, also won ‘Mastercard British Album of the Year’ at the 2019 ceremony. Enter a new year of music with them on 23rd January 2023
