Sage Gateshead is delighted to announce some fantastic shows, which go on sale on Friday 1 June.
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Jake Bugg showcases his latest album, Hearts That Strain.
Olivier Award-winning actress and multimillion selling recording artist Barbara Dickson performs some of her greatest hits.
Influential composer and performer Terry Riley joins the TUSK Festival for its eighth year.
80s megastar and Spandau Ballet frontman, Tony Hadley, performs some solid ‘Gold’ classics from his illustrious career.
These are just some of the shows going on sale today. Get your tickets now at Sage Gateshead.
SAF ’18: Jeff Lang and Amythyst Kiah (Double Bill)
Sunday 22 July, 7.45pm, Northern Rock Foundation Hall
Jeff is considered one of the most innovative and collaborative artists in Australia. His reputation is second-to-none amongst both his peers and audiences. As a musician, Jeff has a very generous nature that has led to some amazing collaborations, including John Butler.
We are honoured to have this genuine, passionate artist at the SummerTyne Americana Festival.
Making a welcome return to Sage Gateshead is Johnson City Tennessee’s Amythyst Kiah. She describes herself as a Southern Gothic, alt-country blues singer-songwriter. Her influences span decades and diverse styles: combining rhythm and blues and old-time covers alongside startling originals with an angular contemporary twist, she bestrides both spheres with complete authenticity and authority. Channelled through her massively expressive voice, this richly layered repertoire confirms Amythyst’s emergence as a hugely distinctive new artist.
Book now:http://sagegateshead.com/event/saf-18-jeff-lang-and-amythyst-kiah-double-bill/
Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood
Monday 1 October, 8pm, Sage Two
It all starts with an incantation; something shamanic from a death mask Pied Piper. Over the stuttering click and kick of a primitive drum box and a wash of ebbing, flowing sound, a voice invites the listener to join his nocturnal chorus.
Like a crack of light glimpsed from behind a closed door in the black of night, it is a weird and compelling proposition, the first track, entitled Save Me, in the remarkable sequence of songs that forms the album With Animals.
With Animals is the second album by Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood, two artists who’ve spent their careers stalking the peripheries and mapping sounds of the small hours. The record’s twelve songs are spectral and sinewy, often defined by the spaces in between the sounds. A ghost’s whistle weaves itself around a pulsing single note on Lonesome Infidel; Feast to Famine’s hard luck story floats above a guitar part so strung out and washed with distortion it’s become barely recognisable.
It’s soul music for anyone who’s long since left the crossroads.
Book now: http://sagegateshead.com/event/mark-lanegan-and-duke-garwood/
TUSK Festival: Terry Riley & Gyan Riley plus Maallem Houssam Gania-ya Jawadi
Sunday 14 October, 7pm, Sage One
It’s hard to do justice in words the influence of Terry Riley on so much adventurous music that has emerged over the past half century.
Take his legendary In C, a simple piece of musical genius that still resonates as loudly in impact today and perhaps is achieving more widespread influence than ever currently since its first recorded appearance in 1968.
Add in his sublime minimalist keyboard recordings such as Shri Camel and A Rainbow In Curved Air, his early tape work, his collaborations with Pandit Pran Nath, John Cale, La Monte Young – a huge favourite on the TUSK team, a huge influence on our listening and so much of the music we love.
It is fitting, in the year that TUSK makes the move to expand its reach into Sage’s Hall One, that it is Terry Riley who takes us there. Terry will perform in a duo with his son Gyan, who has a growing discography of his own and has worked with Zakir Hussian, Dawn Upshaw and many others.
Tony Hadley plus support
Wednesday 17 October, 7pm, Sage One
As lead singer of Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley has, over the years, earned the accolade of being one of pop music’s greatest vocalists. In addition to all the band’s songs, many will remember his prominent vocal contribution to the Band Aid UK charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? and the subsequent 1985 London appearance at Live Aid. He also performed solo at the Nelson Mandela Concert at Wembley in June 1988.
Tony is a solo artist in his own right, who has spent the past 25 years entertaining audiences all over the world with his stunning rich voice that has lost none of its power, and which critics deem to be better than ever.
Book now: http://sagegateshead.com/event/tony-hadley-plus-support/
Jake Bugg
Tuesday 27 November, 7pm, Sage One
Following the release of his critically lauded new album, Hearts That Strain, last year, Jake Bugg hits the road this November for a string of acoustic headline shows and festival headline slots.
The shows continue Jake’s Hearts That Strain tour, a series of solo acoustic shows. This stripped back presentation allows the power of Jake’s songwriting to shine through in a live setting, attracting a glowing 4* review from The Times. The intensity and intimacy of the tour is captured perfectly in the video for latest single, In The Event Of My Demise.
Hearts That Strain saw Jake work with the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach (who co-wrote and recorded In The Event Of My Demise) and Grammy Award winning producers David Ferguson and Matt Sweeney in Nashville, while recording with some of the best players in the history of popular music.
The result was a sublime, pensive album belying Bugg’s 24 years, with reviews for the record nothing short of revelatory.
Book now: http://sagegateshead.com/event/jake-bugg/
Barbara Dickson In Concert
Monday 11 February 2019, 7.30pm, Sage One
Kennedy Street presents Barbara Dickson in concert with a full band.
Multimillion selling recording artist Barbara Dickson, with her accomplished band, returns to Sage Gateshead.
Barbara will perform a wonderful range of material drawing on her folk roots as well as performing globally known hits such as The Caravan Song, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, plus lots more.
An evening packed with songs from one of the finest voices you will ever hear.
Book now: http://sagegateshead.com/event/barbara-dickson50172/