Saturday 11 May 2024 | 7:30pm | Queen's Hall, Hexham, NE46 3LS
Brothers Patrick and Gregory Kane formed Hue and Cry in the 80’s and the duo made a huge impact with the release of their debut album
Seduced and Abandoned (1987) which featured their first top ten single
Labour of Love. The follow up album
Remote continued the trend and produced the huge hits
Looking for Linda and
Violently.
Albums like
Stars Crash Down,
Showtime and
Jazz Not Jazz ensured Hue and Cry’s continued a successful run through the 90’s, whilst their 2005 appearances as finalists on ITV’s primetime show
Hit Me Baby One More Time, featuring their version of Beyonce’s
Crazy In Love, thrust the band firmly back into the mainstream limelight.
A number of successful album releases and accompanying live appearances followed, which included O
pen Soul (2008),
Xmasday (2009),
Bitter Suite Again (2010),
Hot Wire (2012),
Remote: Major to Minor (2014),
September Songs (2015),
Pocketful of Stones (2017).
To date, Hue and Cry have sold in excess of two million records worldwide.
In 2019, Hue and Cry sold out their
Summer Nights at the Bandstand show at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park within 48 hours and finished the year by playing live all over the UK.
With the global pandemic bringing live touring to a halt during 2020/21, Hue and Cry introduced their pioneering
Live from Lockdown streaming shows which were broadcast live from the band’s Glasgow based studio and viewed online by thousands of fans around the world. A collection of their favourite tracks from these shows was released as a
Best of Lockdown album (2022).
Hue and Cry have sold tens of thousands of concert tickets worldwide. As well as performing alongside some of the greatest artists in music history – appearing with U2, James Brown, Madonna, Al Green and Van Morrison to name but a few, the band have undertaken a multitude of their own headline tours and made numerous festival appearances.
Hue and Cry were recognised by their peers when they were recently presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scottish Music Awards. The band are currently working on a brand-new album and have made a welcome return to performing in front of audiences in both their ‘stripped’ duo and ‘full band’ set-ups.
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