Old Red Eyes Is Back with a double-header celebration of the sounds of The Beautiful South. Hailed as the UK’s most authentic tribute to the famous indie pop band, Very Beautiful South takes to the stage in Beverley this month.
All the classics of The Beautiful South will be celebrated by the nine-piece tribute, who will appear at The Parkway Theatre on Saturday, August 9, for two live performances. They promise a pair of “sing-along shows to remember”.
Very Beautiful South will take their audiences back to the heady days of 90s chart hits, quirky lyrics and the alternative pop-rock sound of The Beautiful South. Recreating the original chart-topping sounds, along with uncannily Heaton & Abbott-esque vocals, will be singers Andy Whittaker and Lisa Arbon.
Andy said: “We’re really looking forward to coming back to Beverley. It’s always a privilege to be playing down the road from Hull where it all started back in the late-80s and when we were all so young – hence the need for a matinee show nowadays!”
Both matinee and evening performances, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, are set to deliver the very best of The Beautiful South’s timeless tracks, including Perfect 10, Rotterdam, A Little Time and Don’t Marry Her, as well as many of the fans’ favourite album tracks across the whole of The Beautiful South’s career.
Very Beautiful South have been described as the UK’s most authentic tribute to The Beautiful South and the genius songwriting partnership of Paul Heaton and David Rotheray. Between 1989 and 2006, The Beautiful South clocked up no fewer than 20 UK Top 30 hits, most making it into the UK Top 10, including the number one hit A Little Time and other classic songs such as Old Red Eyes and Good As Gold.
The band’s Greatest Hits album, Carry On Up The Charts, sold just under two million copies, making it the second highest-selling album of 1994. It went on to stay in the UK Album Top 30 for the whole of 1995, achieving no fewer than six Platinum Disks.
It is this legacy that Very Beautiful South celebrate, being a group of enthusiastic and experienced musicians who are, first and foremost, lifelong fans of The Beautiful South. Selling out venues across the UK and quickly gaining themselves a reputation for putting on a hugely entertaining show, Very Beautiful South appear at festivals, live music venues and theatres, playing hit after hit of sing-along classics – all lovingly recreated to transport you back into the heady days of Hull’s alternative pop-rock sound, whimsical lyrics and catchy melodies.
Very Beautiful South is made up of:
- Lady Corrigan Abbott-Wheeler – Lisa Arbon, vocals
- Lord Heaton Of Hemingway – Andy Whittaker, vocals
- Lord David Of Rotheray – Alan Henery, guitars
- Viscount Welch – Mark Hurrell, bass and vocals
- Count Steady – Andy Clifton, drums
- Earl Hammond – Karl Bolland, percussion
- Sir Damon de Boucher – Steve Hession, keyboards
- Sir Anthony, Son Of Robin – Dave Anton, trumpet
- Sir Gazza da Sax – Dave Taylor, sax/flute
Tickets are available for both the 2.30pm and 7.30pm performances directly from Parkway Cinema and Theatre or by secure online purchase via the venue’s website.