Slade on tour and coming to Liverpool this November. Photograph used with kind permission by MP Promotions.
On Friday 22nd November, long-standing favourites of British music, Slade, return to Liverpool as part of a U.K. tour which starts at the city’s Arts Club and which will go on through the rest of the month and onwards toward Christmas across cities such as Salisbury, Glasgow, London, Newcastle and Birmingham.
Slade are without doubt one of the most exciting bands to come out of Great Britain in the past 50 years. With their unique blend of perfect pop rock ‘n’ roll, outrageous flamboyance and pure fun, and no less than 23 Top-20 singles of which 6 were No-1 smash hits plus 6 smash albums, Slade have become a firm favourite in the hearts of pop fans all over the world.
The band’s chart career has spanned 5 decades and their enduring songs Cum On Feel The Noize and Coz I Luv You are still featured today in television commercials for some of the World’s biggest companies.
Slade first hit the road in 1966, touring throughout Great Britain and Europe and becoming a regular concert attraction. Joining forces with the former Animals bass guitarist and Jimi Hendrix Experience manager, Chas Chandler, Slade achieved their first chart hit in May 1971 with the Bobby Marchan song Get Down And Get With It then, released in October of the same year Coz I Luv You was the band’s first No-1 and a huge hit across Europe.
Throughout the seventies, Slade became one of Europe’s biggest bands, touring and recording continually and making regular trips to America, Japan and other parts of the world. Slade’s catalogue of hits are synonymous with the era:- Take Me Bak ‘Ome, Mama We’er All Crazee Now, Cum On Feel The Noize, Gudbye T’ Jane, along with the many others provided a soundtrack to the Glam Generation and are still today, heavily featured on any retrospective of the time.
At the beginning of the eighties, Slade were invited to appear at the Reading Rock Festival, a massive annual event which attracted over 100,000 people. They literally stole the show, giving some of the world’s biggest rock bands a serious run for their money whilst kindling new interest from a whole new audience. As a result, the band signed a new record deal and unleashed the anthem We’ll Bring The House Down, which reached the Top-10 in the U.K. in January 1981. Slade were back!
Slade have continued to tour the world, with longstanding members Dave Hill and Don Powell firmly at the helm. They are firm favourites on the lucrative German festival scene and undertake an annual U.K. “Merry Christmas Everybody” tour in December. They have a huge following of fans and regularly play concert dates in Germany, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Spain & France. Having just returned from a festival in Gibraltar, next stop is Greenland and Faroe Islands.
Slade today is still one of the most exciting bands on the road, and their stage performance is a dynamic, powerful and exhilarating roller-coaster ride of pure unadulterated rock ‘n ‘roll.
A date for your diary, Slade are back for Christmaaaas!