Following unprecedented public demand, Haircut 100 are back with their first UK tour in over 40 years*, and they’ve chosen to come back to Manchester, four-decades since they last played the big city. Hot on the heels of their Pelican West 40th anniversary shows in London and Oxford in May this year (which sold out in less than 20 minutes), the band wow fans with the announcement that they’ll be taking to the road again, handpicking Manchester as one of their stops, on at the O2 Ritz, 12 October. Haircut 100% Live is a 15 date UK tour throughout October and November.

“We last played Manchester on 12 March, 1982, and it was one of the best live experiences of our lives,” smiles Nick Heyward. “We wanted to make sure that Manchester was on the schedule for this new Haircut 100 tour so that we could bring that Haircut joy back to Manchester again. This is going to be such a special tour for us, we’re all back together again, and although it’s over 40 years on, we’re still bursting with that Haircut 100 joyous spirit that fans love us for. It’s been a while, but we hope to see some of the faces that were there with when we last played the city. Manchester here we come, we can’t wait!”

Bringing the past 40 years whizzing into the present day, the Haircut 100 boys will come together to fuse the sounds of the original Pelican West album, along with their classic 80s hits, as well as new music from the band. These shows will be an unforgettable Haircut 100 live experience that fans won’t want to miss.

The London boys of new-wave pop guarantee a headline set that promises to raise the roof on a fantastic day for Haircut 100 fans. Manchester fans – be there!

Dates include:

10 OctoberVicar St, Dublin

12 OctoberNX, Newcastle

13 OctoberQueens Hall, Edinburgh

18 OctoberO2 Ritz, Manchester

19 OctoberDe Montfort Hall, Leicester

25 OctoberTown Hall, Birmingham

28 OctoberHexagon, Reading

1 NovemberO2 Academy, Bournemouth

2 NovemberTramshed, Cardiff

3 NovemberCorn Exchange, Cambridge

9 NovemberForum, Bath

10 NovemberDe La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill

11 NovemberCorn Exchange, Ipswich

16 NovemberO2 Academy, Liverpool

17 NovemberBarbican, York

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*Last Haircut 100 Tour was in 1982: https://retrodundee.blogspot.com/2010/04/haircut-100-bluebells-caird-hall-1982.html?m=1

Haircut 100 released their debut album in February 1982, Pelican West. The band were an instant smash with four UK Top 10 singles including ‘Fantastic Day’, ‘Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)’ and ‘Love Plus One’, with the album storming into the UK Top 10 for three months, ten weeks of which were in the Top 5, and 34 weeks in the Top 40.

Over 40 years on, the band released a bonus version of that iconic Pelican West album, with a one-off live show to bring the album to life – public demand for tickets spurred the need for a full UK tour. Haircut 100 are back! Over four CDs, there are 54 tracks, of which 24 are unreleased, including nascent versions of later Nick Heyward solo hits ‘Whistle Down The Wind’, ‘Blue Hat For A Blue Day’ and the great lost Haircut 100 single ‘Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl’. The album is available as a Super Deluxe Edition featuring a new remaster of Pelican West, all the 12″ mixes and b-sides, a live set from Hammersmith Odeon and for the first time, the demos for their unfinished second album, which was given the provisional title Blue Hat For A Blue Day. The 4-CD set features a 44-page booklet with a new 10,000-word sleeve note featuring an oral history of the time with all members interviewed by the set’s curator, author and DJ Daryl Easlea. The booklet includes memorabilia and exclusive photos from the personal collection of Haircut’s guitarist Graham Jones and bassist Les Nemes.

Haircut 100% Live Tour: 10 October – 17 November

O2 Ritz – 18 October

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