Most Popular New Wave Music in London
The Beat featuring Ranking Jnr
Friday 22 December 2023
With 1980's Top 10 hits like "Can't Get Used To Losing You", "Mirror In The Bathroom", "Tears Of A Clown", "Ranking Full Stop", "Too Nice To Talk To", "Hands Off, She's Mine", and "Twist & Crawl", the Birmingham ska legends fused Latin, s...
Depeche Mode
Monday 22 - Saturday 27 January 2024
Nwo with a two-piece lineup of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, following co-founder Andrew 'Fletch' Fletcher's tragic passing in 2022, Essex electronic rockers Depeche Mode are back with their vast expanse of moods and textures. Since forming i...
Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers)
Thursday 25 January 2024
When future historians of music draw up a list of the movers and shakers who changed the modern musical landscape, there will be no doubt that North London-born Hugh Cornwell, the former leader and main songwriter of all The Stranglers' mos...
ABC & Southbank Sinfonia
Thursday 1 - Thursday 22 February 2024
To celebrate 40 years since the release of their lauded and timeless debut album The Lexicon of Love, ABC have announced they will perform the iconic album in its entirety with the Soutbank Sinfonia, and conducted by Anne Dudley. Martin Fr...
Pretenders
Wednesday 28 - Thursday 29 February 2024
The British Alt-Rock/New Wave outfit led by American Chrissie Hynde have scored thirteen UK Top 40 singles since 1979, including the chart-topping "Brass in Pocket" and Top 10 hits "I Go To Sleep", "Talk of the Town", "Hymn to Her", "Don't ...
Simple Minds
Thursday 21 March 2024
Glaswegian rockers Simple Minds are one of the UK's most successful and inspirational bands, having achieved five No.1 albums and eight Top 10 singles at home, as well as landing numerous chart-topping positions around the world. In additi...
OMD - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Sunday 24 March 2024
Four decades has seen - give or take a decade break - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) sell an astonishing 25 million singles and 15 million albums, establishing them as electronic synthesiser pioneers and one of Britain's best-loved...
Empathy Test
Saturday 13 April 2024
Formed in London by childhood friends Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf, the band's "big dramatic sound swoons ecstatically between the nostalgic and immediate" (KCRW), earning them comparisons with classic acts such as Depeche Mode and A Flock o...
Roxy Magic - Celebrating the Music of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Saturday 25 May 2024
A fabulously entertaining evening celebrating the music of Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry as performed by Roxy Magic, with a great combination of high quality musicianship and a wonderful Bryan Ferry look and sound-alike in Kevin Hackett. Formed...
EXTC
Friday 5 July 2024
It's been a long time coming (over 40 years, in fact) but Terry Chambers, the drummer for XTC, is back on the road with his new band, EXTC (named and approved by Andy Partridge), bringing the XTC songbook to audiences worldwide - including ...
EXTC
Friday 5 July 2024
It's been a long time coming (over 40 years, in fact) but Terry Chambers, the drummer for XTC, is back on the road with his new band, EXTC (named and approved by Andy Partridge), bringing the XTC songbook to audiences worldwide - including ...
Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
Saturday 21 September 2024
Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve have announced a 15 date tour of the UK & Ireland for September 2024, playing selections from a songbook that is fifty years long and twice as deep. The collaboration of Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve has span...
The The
Saturday 28 September 2024
Matt Johnson's new wave / post-punk outfit The The spent 30 weeks on the UK chart with their 1986 album, Infected, following it up with the top-ten studio albums Mind Bomb (1989) and Dusk (1993). Lauded with critical acclaim, their ever-cha...
Nik Kershaw
Wednesday 16 October 2024
One of the most popular pop stars and talented songwriters of the '80s, Ipswich-raised Nik Kershaw served his apprenticeship playing guitar in jazz fusion and functions bands before shooting to fame worldwide in 1984 with the UK Top 5 singl...
Adam Ant
Saturday 9 November 2024
Pop icon Adam Ant returns with his UK Antics tour, with a set list that promises to get everyone on their feet. Performing his classic chart-topping singles and personal favourites, audiences will be thrilled with the return of live musi...
Squeeze
Monday 11 November 2024
As one of the most traditional pop bands of the new wave, London's Squeeze provided one of the links between classic British guitar pop and post-punk providing the vehicle for the wry, subtle lyric writing of Chris Difford and traditiona...
Squeeze
Friday 22 November 2024
As one of the most traditional pop bands of the new wave, London's Squeeze provided one of the links between classic British guitar pop and post-punk providing the vehicle for the wry, subtle lyric writing of Chris Difford and traditiona...
