
Justin Hayward Announces The ‘Blue World’ Tour For March 2024
Live Nation/Kennedy Street are delighted to announce that legendary singer-songwriter Justin Hayward, The Voice of the Moody Blues, will undertake the ‘Blue World’ Tour taking in 12 venues in March 2024.
The shows are sale now, tickets available from ticketline.co.uk, ticketmaster.co.uk and the venues direct.
Justin Hayward says, “It’s always a privilege and a joy to be invited to play in the UK. I’m rediscovering songs I have written and sung over the years – some that I only lived with for a few days while they were being recorded. Now, I have a chance to experience the feelings that they gave me then, every night on stage, as well as including in our set the favourites that have been milestones on my musical journey. I’m joined by the ‘guitar genius’ that is Mike Dawes, along with Julie Ragins and Karmen Gould, two of the brightest young talents in all music”. Justin Hayward’s career is now in its fifth decade. He is best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer for the iconicMoody Blues,whose hits include the masterful ‘Nights in White Satin’, ‘Tuesday Afternoon’, ‘Question’, ‘The Voice’ and the US top 40 hits ‘I Know You’re Out there Somewhere’ and In Your Wildest Dreams’: plus other classic, era and genre-defining hits. These laid the foundation for the incredible success story of the Moody Blues – as well as Hayward’s solo work – which continues to this day. This year Justin Hayward was awarded an OBE for contribution to music, by King Charles III.Already established as a songwriter, he joined the Moody Blues in 1966. Hitting his stride immediately with “Fly Me High,” he followed it with ‘Nights in White Satin’ and ‘Tuesday Afternoon’ from the seminal album Days of Future Past. The Moody Blues sold 70 million albums worldwide, which includes 18 platinum and gold LPs. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Hayward created several solo albums such as Songwriter, Night Flight, Moving Mountains and ‘Classic Blue’with long time friend Mike Batt, andThe View From the Hill. He hit the Top Ten globally in 1978 with ‘Forever Autumn’ – created for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds album. Hayward took to the stage and starred in its spectacular live production. HisSpirits Of The Western Sky (2013) was followed by DVD ‘Spirits…Live’, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Video chart. All The Way followed – a compilation of solo work and live performances of Moody Blues classics. In 2020, Justin took to YouTube for the ‘Tuesday Afternoon Video Series’ where he performed and discussed many of his key tracks: this led to the digital album ‘Tuesday Afternoons: The Audio Files’. Justin continues to record new music; in 2021 ‘One Summer Day’ and ‘My Juliette’, and ‘Living For Love’ in 2022.
The ‘Blue World’ March 2024 Tour will visit the following venues:
12 – Swansea Grand Theatre13 – Weymouth Pavilion14 – Truro Hall for Cornwall16 – Reading Hexagon17 – Birmingham Town Hall18 – Northampton Derngate19 – Bury St Edmunds Apex Theatre (SOLD OUT) 21 – Basingstoke Anvil22 – London Cadogan Hall (SOLD OUT)24 – Llandudno Venue Cymru25 – New Brighton Floral Pavilion26 – Darlington Hippodrome
Feature Image Photo Credit: John Nichols
Tickets will be priced at a face value of £42.50 each.
The shows are sale now, tickets available from ticketline.co.uk, ticketmaster.co.uk and the venues direct.
For more information visit his official website here: https://justinhayward.com/
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